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	sorchar 2009-12-17 05:50 am UTC (link)
	You have an umbrella? WTF kind of Northwesterner are you, anyway? (I had the cutest Emily the Strange umbrella once. It had kitty ears. But it got broked.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tez 2009-12-17 06:02 am UTC (link)
	A former car salesman Northwesterner. Umbrellas were mandatory equipment, because studies have shown that drowned rats are very poor salespeople. (D'awwwwwwww. Mine's...obnoxious. It's one of those big-ass giant golf umbrellas, in rainbow. I kind of love it.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sorchar 2009-12-17 06:05 am UTC (link)
	Mm, true. (I might kind of maybe want one of those big black British ones. But man, they're spendy.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tez 2009-12-17 06:10 am UTC (link)
	That is, though, where I got my appreciation for truly obnoxiously colored and/or horridly girly umbrellas, though. It ensured they never walked off the lot without me. (Ooh I like those but yes, spendy. Very spendy. But NICE.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bigbigtruck 2009-12-17 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	I used to have one. I took it with me to Chicago in March. I don't have it any more. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

tez
2009-12-17 07:37 pm UTC (link)

Aw.

The first umbrella I brought to my dealership was a very typical golf umbrella -- one of the white and black kind. It vanished. Then I brought a black one. It vanished as well.

Then I brought a clear vinyl one with pink and yellow stripes.

THAT didn't vanish. Nor did the rainbow golf umbrella I got after that one broke. For some reason my overwhelmingly middle-aged, male, absolutely stereotypical car salesman coworkers didn't want to touch brightly-colored umbrellas. Couldn't tell you why.

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puipui
2009-12-17 09:05 am UTC (link)

WTF kind of Northwesterner are you, anyway?

LOL. My daughter carries an umbrella (sometimes, when she remembers, depending on what jacket she's wearing and how hard it's raining) and this specific question bugs her to no end. Apparently she gets the whole "natives don't carry umbrellas, what are you, new?" thing a lot.

I just laugh. And then I tell her to stop poking me in the head with her damn umbrella or I'll take it away, and then she'll have to be hardcore like the rest of us. Hood? I don't need no stinking hood! HA!

(She used to have a Hello Kitty umbrella when she was little of which I was desperately jealous, but it was far too small for me, alas. And then the Hello Kitty handle broke off.)

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	sorchar 2009-12-17 10:00 am UTC (link)
	Aw, poor wee!pui! Meanwhile, I have to force my native-born spawn to put on a damn coat when it's below freezing outside and he has to wait for the bus. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2009-12-17 01:07 pm UTC (link)
	I remember specifically being perfectly fine in only a windbreaker the week before Christmas break as a child in Eugene. Where did that imperviousness to cold go? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2009-12-17 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I probably should've said depending on what jacket, if any. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sorchar 2009-12-17 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	The first year I lived here, I was astonished to see people wearing shorts and sandals in cold weather. I'm used to it now...but when they top all that off with a parka, I still have to giggle. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darksumomo 2009-12-17 03:16 pm UTC (link)
	"natives don't carry umbrellas, what are you, new?" Welcome to Oregon (or Washington). We don't tan here. We rust. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evening_rose 2009-12-18 02:25 am UTC (link)
	...well, that was a nice, clean Wacom. Now it's very Chai-flavored. Thank you. :P (Reply to this)(Parent)

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