Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for July 22, 2021

Should keep a backup in the car.

“Bummer! Shoot!” instead of bumbershoot

Never owned an umbrella. ?Tried using one a couple times that people lent me, but I saw little point to carrying something over my head that caused my shoes to fill with water at every step. Unless i get caught in a severe downpour I feel drier at my destination with a little rain on me than I felt using an umbrella

He is so kind and thoughtful of inanimate objects.

well that’s nice of you to consider the safety of your umbrella.

or in my wife’s car along with all our other umbrellas

He’s just one more fool that believed the weather forecast.

One way to make it rain is to leave your umbrella in the car when you’re shopping!!!

Kind of like those reusable shopping bags that I leave in the are every time I go into the grocer…

Hard to believe, but some people do need remedial umbrella use lessons.

Right where it belongs thank you…..

I almost always wear something with a hood or carry a lightweight hoodie. Much easier to carry than an umbrella and I can get inside a car without having to close it and get wet first. Ditto on getting out. I walk outside a lot and just got used to being prepared.

Every. Single. Time.

This was probably one of those SURPRISE MONSOONS that was NOT in the forecast of the National Weather Service!!!!!

The canyons of lower and midtown Manhattan form wind tunnels that are death to umbrellas. In a rainstorm you’ll see people shifting their umbrellas left, right, up, down, trying to tack into the wind so the umbrellas don’t blow inside out. You’ll also see the litter baskets and the sidewalks surrounding them piled with the umbrellas that didn’t survive the ordeal.

are you somehow missusing the umbrella?