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People's attitudes to rain

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fmla · 30/05/2024 15:54

All cowering under shops eaves from the rain.

I wanted just to go home after a long day. It's only water FFS.

The way some people react to rain is truly pathetic imo.

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steff13 · 09/06/2025 01:59

SleepingStandingUp · 30/05/2024 15:58

But you can't go home because you're too busy judging other people?

😂

EBearhug · 09/06/2025 01:52

I mainly got my eyes lasered because of glasses when cycling in the rain.

But we have been in great need of rain, so it's a good thing (Bournemouth groundskeepers may not agree.)

It's not just humans who don't want to get wet.

People's attitudes to rain
XenoBitch · 09/06/2025 00:48

It does not bother me. My DP though... he acts like he is made of sugar and will melt away.
I remember a sudden summer downpour one year. There was a chap in my local park who was sat on a bench in his T-shirt and shorts. I guess he just admitted defeat as he just sat there and got soaked.

Goonie1 · 09/06/2025 00:45

Mancunian here so we get a lot. A lot. We just deal with it, it’s a way of life. If I’ve not got a hood, I’ve usually got a brolly for big fat rain. If it’s spitting or light, I just crack on without, because it’s Manchester and we cba whipping a brolly out every time it spits 😂

That being said, I prefer it when we have those rare sunny dry days!

uncomfortablydumb60 · 09/06/2025 00:37

I avoid going out in the rain, or will take shelter because I'm disabled and easily slip over( like last week!) but it's not that I'm afraid I'll dissolve

Fourcandleforkhandle · 08/06/2025 23:36

I work in a School. We have a Lunchtime Supervisor who says ' It's only rain not Acid' everytime it rains. And sends the Children out with their Coats. Bloody annoys me so much!

pillooo · 08/06/2025 23:17

I love rain because the thought of a water shortage fills me with horror.

dustygrey · 08/06/2025 21:14

So what was stopping you from going home?

Livpool · 08/06/2025 20:47

My asthma kicks off and my hair goes frizzy!

When my asthma kicks off shall I just think that I shouldn’t be pathetic?!

OneCalmFish · 08/06/2025 20:32

I loved the fact ppl hide from the rain when DC had the play park all to himself earlier, only needed the rain cover on his bike for 5 minutes but wasn’t supposed to rain for hours. Once got drenched through while working door to door a lifetime ago pointed out to my mate everyone will be in to answer now! The only ppl who enjoy it are dressed/prepared for it

JohnTheRevelator · 08/06/2025 20:22

I get sick of hearing people saying 'At least it's not raining' when we've had next to no rain for a month and the grass is turning dry and yellow. These are the same people who'll be moaning about the hose pipe ban when a drought is announced.

Auroraloves · 08/06/2025 19:52

fmla · 30/05/2024 16:20

Some were even wearing coats with hoods.

Yeah I’ve been wearing a rain coat with a hood this week.

its called being prepared

TheeNotoriousPIG · 08/06/2025 19:47

Why don't you start a trend of RainMate bonnets, then? You know, those see-through bonnets that your grannies probably wore to spare their 'dos.

I would, but my mum said that she would disown me if I wore one of those in public 😂

APC303 · 08/06/2025 19:29

buffyslayer · 30/05/2024 16:23

I'm not bothered about being wet, it's my glasses! Rain on them, can't see, they steam up then trying to clean them and smearing them. Pain in the arse
Wonder if you can treat them with the stuff they use for car windscreens so it rolls off...

Apparently if you rub/polish them with a bar of soap, the water beads off them. I have not tried this yet though as always forget until I'm out in it.

wendycupcakes · 30/05/2024 18:52

I love the rain.
In fact I love all the weather mums net hates.
Fog storms rain frost wind etc.
All rough weather.

DancelikeFredAstaire · 30/05/2024 18:43

When you spend all day working outside when it's raining those moments when you can take some shelter is a little slice of paradise.

Topofthemountain · 30/05/2024 18:01

All sing together.

I love the rain it falls on me.
God made the rain, and God made me.

AnImaginaryCat · 30/05/2024 17:43

You need to let is know why you can't go home because people are cowering under shops eaves from the rain.

Are you holding the eaves up and your going home would cause them all to die a horrible death?

Are they blocking your passage home, because you need to take it entirely under the eaves?

DontKnow1988 · 30/05/2024 17:35

Some people don't like getting wet and sitting in wet clothes. What exactly is so odd about it? If the rain is particularly heavy, I'd probably wait it out too.

You might not mind going for dinner in soaked trousers and looking like a drowned rat, but I do. My life, my choice.

OneTC · 30/05/2024 17:32

Rain is shit though isn't it?

Beargrumps22 · 30/05/2024 17:26

Its not so bad if you get soaked if you are going home but if you have to stay in wet clothes its awful
My biggest bugbear is being splashed by traffic no matter how far you get over you still catch a wave of water

FrogandTrumpet · 30/05/2024 17:26

Very weird thing to take issue with.

Do you take issue with umbrellas and people putting their hood up?

I mean, it’s only water.

Everythingiscalmfornow · 30/05/2024 17:20

I love rain.
Can't stand it when we have long spells of dry weather, especially if it's hot and sunny.

ImCamembertTheBigCheese · 30/05/2024 16:41

I can't understand why people sheltering from the rain would stop your commute home.

HelpMeUnpickThis · 30/05/2024 16:30

Offcom · 30/05/2024 15:59

I remember seeing someone wearing a Tesco bag on their head in a rainstorm and thinking whatever your hair looks like after it gets wet it can't be worse than that

@Offcom you have clearly never ever dealt with 4c afro hair. Washing detangling and chemical free straightening for my daughters takes almost a
whole day. I am not getting it wet after all that just to walk to the car.

I hate posts like this @fmla - so myopic. You literally cant see beyond the end of your own nose.

A silk press on afro hair costs over £68 per go.
Afro hairdressers are few and far between and if I am caught out without an umbrella then shop eaves it is.