To hate irresponsible umbrella owners?

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Shaking them off as they go into a train station, poking you about the face as they charge through crowds, dumping them sodden wet on a seat on the tube, discarding broken ones wherever they happen to break.

Argh.

These people need a license.

YANBU - I'm 6ft and as such most women's umbrella's are directly at my eye level - yet they don't look where they are walking... grrrrrrr

Tucking the great big long ones under their arms and poking everyone behind them when walking upstairs. YANBU

I HATE people with golfing umbrellas outside school, walking along pavements etc taking up too much room!

I got twatted by a huge golfing umbrella in our school playground the other day. There is no way on earth she could not have noticed she hit me, but she carried on regardless anyway Grrrr.

Oh yes when they are standing chatting and you have to walk in the road to avoid it.

It's mainly just before getting into train stations or on the bus though when they close and shake them. Argh

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ROFL Cybil Less of a pain than the huge golfing umbrellas though.

Ha I love it.

YANBU - no one should have an umbrella they can't handle

In my town centre, some of the shop fronts are under a weird canopy type thing, so if its raining you stay dry, but then you get to older shops that dont have the canopy.
What really pees me off is the people that dont take their umbrellas down once they reach the shops with the canopy, especially on market days when you only have a pavement width to walk down.
You're not getting wet!
You dont need them up anymore!

oh god, what about the idiots that keep their umbrellas up under scaffolding. You know when the scaffolding has taken up the pavement, its dry underneath and people can just about squeeze through in two single files going in opposite directions.

Always one moron who brazens through assaulting everyone with an uneeded, open brolly

Someone left a huge, lambert and butler, silver one outside my house, it was outside in and stuck in the grass. pita!

I'm probably one of these awful umbrella users, I'm only 4'10" and do try my best to not poke people with the umbrella when it's up, but I can only stretch so high.

Probably doesn't help that I have a massive Edwardian style umbrella, but in windy Brighton it's the only one that doesn't turn inside out in the wind.

UpsyOne > I never understand people who keep umbrellas open under scaffolding, it's obviously far too difficult for them to close then open their umbrella.

How can 6 foot Weegle get her eyes poked out by these damnable contraptions, when I'm only 5 foot and they all go for me?

Heh. As a 5 foot person, I exact merry revenge with my umbrella on the tall people who routinely trample me in any other weather.

Yes, I'm short, yes, my umbrella is going to impale your face/shoulder if you don't change direction, yes, it's going to hurt, no, I'm not going to move out your way.

(I'm obviously not that mean, but as I'm usually the one that gets walked into/trodden on/cast aside, it's nice when the tables turn and I'm the one with the power to cause unintentional injury!)

HAHAHA

Just the mention of umbrella still makes me laugh hard.

My DH had a huge umbrella in the middle of glasgow and it was such a windy awful day. It was being whipped inside out constantly and stubbornly he wrestled with it and kept trying no matter how often it did this. I followed him up the street KILLING myself laughing as he got more and more angry and people around watched him also laughing or angrily ducking out of the way....

You had to be there.......

DH is the sort to clamp a huge rolled up pointy umbrella under his arm and can't see anything wrong with it.

My 5ft mother clamps her umbrella tightly over her head and barges forward blindly, ignoring people yelping 'Ow!'

Whenever it's raining I pretend not to be with them.