Umbrellas

Early this morning I was awoken by a thunderstorm. My first thought of the day was to give (my girlfriend) her umbrella back that was still in my bag from the weekend. When it was time to leave she said that I should take it because she didn't like umbrellas. This made me flash back to when I read an essay by my dad that he wrote in his younger years. Basically it stated that men were to never cary and umbrella and instead should walk in the rain. He would have been ashamed of me this day. I think that I should purchase a trenchcoat for the rain, it is a pseudo-sexual icon. I'd like people to wonder if I was wearing anything under it or just preparing to go streaking. Then I would walk in the rain without an umbrella and make my dad proud.

The other observation that I had this morning was when I was walking down rainy LaSalle St. It seemed that everyone had a blue umbrella. I looked across the street and saw six or seven people in a row carrying blue umbrellas then look in front of me to notice the same thing. I am not sure why blue (especially dark blue) is such a popular color for umbrellas. You would think more people would choose colorful umbrellas to help cheer you up during a rainy day. But I guess people would rather be reminded of how gross it is outside.