It’s a rainy day, and rainy days make me wish for umbrellas. Not that I don’t have some — I do. Long ones, and short ones, good ones and crappy ones, and intermediate ones that make me glad they’re not crappy and sad they’re not good all at the same time. I think I’ve spent a total of zero dollars on umbrellas since moving to DC, mostly because on rainy nights after closing, the lost and found bin at Information gets pillaged* by employees who would rather not be drenched when they get home.
So, UrbanBohemian tweeted (“Where I can shop for a well-crafted big gay rainbow umbrella. Can I combine a rainbow pattern w/the Blade Runner shaft?”) about a Blade Runner umbrella, and I saw this beauty on the side bar:
It’s an umbrella disguised as a katana. Part of me says: “This is a really neat idea! Why didn’t I think of it?” And part of me says: “Dude, if you buy this and carry it with you, every single block, cops are going to stop you with pulled handguns. You’ll never got nowhere, and you might get shot.”
On the bright side, if I did, I wouldn’t have to go back to work. Hooray!
Also, the dork in me says: “Y’know, if Duncan MacLeod concealed his sword as an umbrella, he wouldn’t have to suffer through people asking him, ‘Dude, why are you wearing a heavy leather duster in summer?’”
*Oh, and save your moralizing: like you’ve never gone into a restaurant in the rain and asked if you’ve left yours even though you’ve never eaten there. Liar.
