To think umbrellas are completely antisocial?

[DipsyLaLa22]

Just that really. I hate them. Haven't used one for years and still here to tell the tale. I hate walking along a busy street in town, carrying shopping while trying not to get poked in the eye by one of these evil bastard things. Half the time it's not even properly raining. What's wrong with hoods people???

[SilverDragonfly1]

Hate, hate, hate them, especially as so many people seem to think they need a golf umbrella for themselves. The worst thing is when all the parents crowd into the school playground, each under their huge umbrella- while carrying a handful of smaller ones for their children!

JUST NO!

[amusedbush]

I'm five foot and a fag-end so I'm alright. I just gambol about looking like a toadstool, blissfully unaware of the world above my brolly

[MyGiddyUncle]

It's only the past year or so i've started using umbrellas again and I love them personally.

Like a pp said, they're just not compatible with having a toddler or pushing a pram...and when ds2 started school aged 3 there were so many bags between the two dc (aged 3 and 5) in the morning an umbrella was too much hassle.

Now they're 6 and 8 they can carry their own shit in the mornings, leaving me free to use my brolly

[bearhug]

Absolutely! Short people should be banned from using them!

[HeyRobot]

It's the umbrella gesticulating that enrages me. A man was carrying his umbrella as it wasn't raining yesterday and nearly took me out because he seemed to think it was part of his hand. Someone asked him for directions and I had to dive out of the way of his monstrosity. And just wave with your other hand, people!

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pictish

[wornoutboots]

haven't used one for 6 years - they aren't compatible with pushing a pram or buggy while dragging a toddler along who has to jump in "just this one puddle, mammy!" every 2 min.

I have bought umbrella-hats for the 6 year old and the 4 year old, though - keep their heads dry while scooting to school

[Mol1628]

I hate them. Especially when people give them their toddlers

[HuckleberryGin]

I wear glasses and my hood doesn't keep the rain off them.

[pictish]

That pod thing would drive me mad in one minute flat. If I had to keep it on I'd fold to the ground and have a 'Gillian McKeith on I'm a Celebrity' turn. Imagine it banging into your arms and getting jostled. Imagine you are slowly suffocating...aaarggh! GET IT OFF!

I imagine some people would love one though.

[YelloDraw]

Oh god people with umbrellas are so annoying! Take up more space on the pavement, poke you in the eye, drip water on you. Just use a nice waterproof coat with a hood!

[Didijustgetwinkpointshitcanned]

Oooh I want that thing! I'd use it all the time

I hate golf brollies in the street or school playground. Or umbrellas in the hands of people who don't seem to realise other people exist. But I like them to keep me dry!

[Maudlinmaud]

Oh my! I would love that astronaut/bio hazard device thingy. Very practical.

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Milady

Well that's cos... Pigeons !

Evidently is also Anti Being Shat On device.

Or she is sick of people giving her a cold and is at least warding off the airborne germs.

I want one now. No point here as an anti getting wet device, when it rains, it pours and nothing will stop you getting soaked. But we do have pigeons and germy people in abundance.

[gettingbythistime]

It's the huge ones that drive me mad. The sort that look more suited to being part of a garden table set. If I use a brolly I always lift it upwards if walking past someone. Can't believe how many people don't do that

[MiladyThesaurus]

That woman appears to be wearing her bubble pod even though it's not raining.

[MiladyThesaurus]

I also find the sight of DH standing there looking all precious in his unsuitable footwear and coat with an umbrella fairly unappealing (and annoying).

[iPost]

A solution !

[MLGs]

I don't mind umbrellas being used tbh

What I mind is people swinging their closed umbrellas behind them when not using them. Those big ones with a spike on the end. They swing them backwards oblivious to small children, dogs, people's legs etc that are quite predictably behind them.

[MiladyThesaurus]

Me too Pictish.

[pictish]

I'm a cross body bag and hat/hood person rather than a shoulder/tote bag, umbrella carrier.
I need to have my hands free. Can't cope otherwise. Too much!

[Theoretician]

DD keeps asking me to buy her a "bicycle umbrella".

Google says such things exist, but I'm not convinced about the practicality.

[MiladyThesaurus]

I hate umbrellas and won't use one. I buy a waterproof coat with a hood instead. I just can't be arsed with holding one up as I walk along and it's usually windy when it rains so the bloody things are more trouble than they're worth.

DH on the other hand thinks it's weird that I don't even own an umbrella (never have). He buys an unsuitable coat with no hood and won't wear a hat. So he gets out the umbrella and then starts complaining about the wind etc. And also complaining that his head is cold. He also seems to think he'll melt if any rain touches him.

The kids and I just put up the hoods on our lovely, warm, waterproof coats and get on with things.

DH is simpliarly irritating when it comes to shoes. He insists on buying shoes that he is unhappy getting wet and then complains it is otherwise difficult when it rains. The kids and I simply put on our weather appropriate footwear to go with out weather appropriate coats and are totally fine.

[champagnefromapapercup]

Live and let live! Umbrellas are used in rain when people already won't be as observant as otherwise. People have hoods up. Are rushing. It's not a big deal avoiding a brolly just don't use them!

[user1477282676]

I agree! All these precious fools with their sill umbrellas wind me up! Put a bloody hood or a hat on you wimps!

The worst are the people who have them out at the finest drizzle in a crowded street!