Down side of umbrellas

So today I learned a valuable lesson about the downside of umbrellas. It turns out the downside of umbrellas is the down side of umbrellas (or the underside). Don't get me wrong, umbrellas are great. They do a fantastic job of blocking water that falls from above. As for the water that has already fallen.......not so much. I had a pretty interesting walk to work this morning in the monsoon that's ripping through atlanta. I saw a girl running to her car, with a plastic Kroger bag on her perfectly curled hair (reduce REUSE recycle). Then about 2 blocks later I had one of those movie moments where the car drives by and hits that puddle perfectly as i'm walking by it. Soaked my right side, all the way to my face. Well, to top it off, I crossed the street and another 2 blocks later another car got me again, this time on my left side, at least i'm evenly soaked at this point. Luckily I don't wear my work shoes to work, unfortunately I don't keep a spare pair of shoes at work. I came into work and headed straight to the bathroom, grabbed as many paper towels as I could, and headed straight to a stall. I rung out my socks in the toilet as much as I could, dried them and my pants off as much as I could, and am currently sitting at my desk waiting for my socks to dry out, good times...



if you can't make out the picture, it is (from left to right) my socksless legs in soaked work pants and dry work shoes, my absolutely soaking walking shoes, and my rung out-paper towel dried socks. I'm setting new records today for how far you can stretch your pants down to cover your bare ankles and how far you can stick your legs under a desk.