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???

I love umbrellas, I have at least 8.

Now hoods are useful but not the bastard ones these days. They are so big I have to hold them off my face with a hand. I'd rather poke someone's eyes out with an umbrella than get wet.

yanbu, they're ok if your in the park or in other big open spaces but I have been poked numerous times over years by big ugly umbrellas, especially on busy streets.

I've found my people!

Although I do use one, carefully and considerately, when I have my baby on the sling as coats aren't big enough then.

Golfing umbrellas for one man person in an urban environment really wind me up. Utterly selfish. I have ranted about them many a time.

As someone who wears glasses and is near-enough blind without them, YABU!

I haven't used an umbrella for years. It's too windy for them here.

I wear glasses and can't manage without them.

I still hate umbrellas.

I hate them. You usually end up getting wet anyway, so what's the point. DH hates it because I refuse to share an umbrella with him and he thinks people will think badly of him letting me get wet, when I really don't care!

I hate umbrellas with a passion, I'm always getting poked in the face with them by short people who don't give a F, they are bloody dangerous, I can never share one with someone as it rubs on my head, when you have used one you're stuck with a saggy wet thing for the rest of the day/shopping trip etc. oh and they always turn inside out at the slightest hint of wind!

I don't mind umbrellas, I don't mind golf umbrellas but I do hate people who walk around with either whilst texting. Either risk loosing an eyeball or step into the gutter.

I use an umbrella and when I meet someone coming the other way, I just angle my umbrella away from them as we pass - simple! :)

It sounds simple Chottie but I've found it's not quite so, some people just cannot grasp it!

I never understood why those umbrella hat things never took off

I don't mind looking like a twat in the name of dryness

YANBU!

I hate the things. I'm at just the right height to get poked in the eye or, on several occasions, my unruly hair getting caught in the spokes of someone else's umbrella.

Anyone using an umbrella needs to watch when they're going.

I had an unfortunate incident with a brolly and had to be rescued. You know the fleshy part of your hand between thumb and finger, well it got trapped by a spring loaded umbrella. It hurt a lot!

YANBU

I can't wear hoods or hats as they trigger claustrophobia. Brollys are fine as they don't give that closed in feeling.

I do take care to be considerate to others when using one.

Totally agree - have hated them since working in central London eons ago. And don't get me started on people who use them at festivals so that no-one behind them can see anything at all.

Yanbu - they are a total menace and like you say, half the time it's not even raining enough to warrant the hateful things.

Having said that...I do have a giant, rainbow, golf umbrella in the boot of my car. I use it sometimes when I'm picking the kids up from school and it's lashing down while we all stand around in the playground...comes in handy then.
I take it camping too as it comes in dead handy when someone needs a pee and it's tanking it outside. Saves having to get all kitted up in a waterproof for the toilet block dash.
It's also good for festivals...but I don't go to jam packed sardines-in-a-tin events...I'm always able to find a space to watch a band under my humongous brolly. Lots of other middle aged people do the same.

But for general pounding the town or city streets I use a hood or a hat. Umbrellas are a complete pita in those circumstances.

Oooh alibongo on the face of it you'd hate me...but I promise as a fellow brolly hater, I go to small events with plenty of space...I'm not at all good with crowds. People can always avoid having to stand behind me, I promise. I wouldn't use it otherwise.

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!

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!

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.

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

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

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!

Me too Pictish.

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.