Forgotten umbrella - Roland's Vancouver Morning Part 88
By Roland Tanglao on November 1, 2005 - 4:25pm
As Dave notes, most of the the male denizens of rainy cities like Dublin (and in London when lived there in the 1990s), don't bother with umbrellas. I hate being wet and I am not Irish or English and rain does bother me, so I carry umbrellas in various states of disarray with me for eight months of the year! Where do you stand in the umbrella carrying debate?
Real Men don't eat quiche, carry umbrellas, or do dishes.
That's why real men invented Dial-a-Date, Dial-a-Jug,
and Dial-a-Prayer. Any questions?
I will respond to the young Irishman is due course, but for a summary, consider the word 'hogwash' as a guide. On the practical side I walk 20-30min each way to and from my office. I already own a Tilley Hat which prevents my glasses getting rained on - something for some reason I find extreamly annoying. I also have a nice new Italian Umbrella, purchased from a quite splendid Umbrella Shop on Granville Island. Quite simply, the streets of Vancouver are practically empty compared to places like London, so if you can't work out how to walk down the very wide sidewalks here and avoid an umbrella attack, then maybe you just need to look where you are going!
Roland Tanglao
VanEats
Bryght
One day, back when cell phones were still a novelty
and upwardly-mobile young men showed them off, there
was a guy carrying a briefcase and babbling on his
cell phone on the sidewalk outside the Revenue Canada
office on West Pender, and he walked smack into a big
cast-iron lamp-post. So the moral of the story is to
engage eyeballs while opening mouth.
Evidently this is now happening to people who bought the new iPod video: they carry watch it while they walk, but found somewhat to their surprise that the number of things they run into has dramatically increased.
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