Umbrellas

You wake up in the morning to a grey, cloudy day that appears to be void of sunshine and happiness.
You look at your clock and it says 6:00am in those angry red letters as your alarm blares.

You rush around to get ready for work or school or wherever it is you need to be at such a godforsaken early hour of the morning.

You are unsure about whether or not it's going to rain but you decide to hope for the best because you are 95% sure your umbrella is lost somewhere under a pile of clothes upstairs.

So instead of spending 5 minutes searching for your umbrella, you grab a cinnamon bun and rush out the door because cinnamon buns are always worth the time. So sweet and covered in icing...I'm getting off topic.

Part way through the day, it starts raining. No, not just raining. Water is coming from the sky in torrents so heavy that you are convinced the entire Earth will be flooded by supper time.

You check the time and hope and pray that it stops raining before you have to head home.

...Because of course today is the one day you decided it would be better to take the bus or walk to your destination rather than drive like a normal person.




There are only 5 more minutes until you can go home and the rain has not ceased. So you start to pack up your things and GASP! Your umbrella is sitting at the bottom of your bag, camoflauged with the dark interior. AWESOME!

It's such a good feeling when you've come to terms with the fact that you're going to be soaked to the bones on your way home but then you discover that no! You will only be partly soaked! Which at this point sounds as good as finding 50 bucks on the ground. You silently congratulate yourself.

Umbrellas are great. Now I don't know where these full body umbrellas originated but I think they have the right idea. Why get partially soaked when you don't have to get soaked at all!

Or how about when you are walking with some friends and it starts to rain and one of your friends just happens to have an umbrella with them that is so huge that it could fit 10 people underneath it.

You end up walking home in a huddled mass as if the raindrops are acid. You feel claustrophobic but it doesn't matter because at least you're dry. We all have one of these friends. (I'm that friend).

These are only rain umbrellas! Not only do umbrellas save you from getting attacked by sky moisture but they also protect you from the sun! But I won't even get into that because the sun and I are kind of friends and I don't want to step on any toes.