Rain in Seattle. Not much of a surprise! What does get me is how many folks don't take the time to consider their fellow pedestrians.

Since it does rain here a bit, most buildings have awnings that hang over the sidewalks at least partially. So why do folks carrying umbrellas feel it is their right to walk or stand beneath the overhang with their bumbershoots open, occasionally giving the local folks no choice but to dash about outside that little bit of cover?

For you know one of the hallmarks of a Seattle-ite is that they do not carry umbrellas. Therefore, anyone who has one must be from someplace else!

Worse still are the ones who hold their raingear before them like a weapon, not looking where they are going and it seems to me that these folks are often at a height where the tips of the umbrella are at MY eye's level.

And at the very high end are those who walk in oblivious pairs, wielding two of these weapons and practically daring anyone to step between them!

You know, this is why they are holding raingear, to keep off the rain. Why do they feel that in addition to the umbrella they need that wisp of an overhang too? Gah!

And that, my friends, is a rant typed in Dvorak. Touch typed, even! Give me a few more days and I will be sailing right along!