I know that I have complained about this before, but dude, it never ceases to blow my mind/annoy the ever-living crap out of me. It is bad enough trying to maneuver the sidewalks in the rain when everyone is wielding their umbrellas like weapons, so why continue to have them open while walking on covered bridge? Today I finally snapped a shot. You can probably tell from the image quality that it was an over-the-shoulder shot with a camera phone. But, at least you can see what I’m talking about. Come to think of it, that guy looks a lot like Ted Swenson. I wonder if he took a position with AMEX or Merrill Lynch. Hmmmm. Anyway, Ted and the guy behind him, both left their gargantuan umbrellas open over the entire (enclosed) Vessey St. foot bridge. It was especially pleasant trying to navigate around them on the stairs. Why is it always the guys with the freaking gargantuan portable tents, that are the biggest offenders? Well, my homey Collin, one of the most prominent minds in advertising on the East Coast, has a theory about that.
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Yes, the canopies were definitely out today. I saw a dude trying to maneuver his umbrella through the scaffolding dump about a half a gallon of water on the poor sap behind him.
What’s also annoying is when people shake their umbrellas on other people’s FEET when they’re entering a building. Annoying.
HEY those videos of Piper were awesome. I just had a Piper Jane movie fest and my favorite by far is the movie with the glow frog. At the end she’s pointing at it like, “hey, this frog is awesome. Look.”