If the rain is angled towards my face? Then I pull the hood down, or don my gas-mask. Simple.

(The day will come when someone will design a hood with a transparent section that covers most of the face; then I will be happy.)

I did preface the statement with “I’m a bad American.” :)

I have never owned an umbrella and think it’s silly to bother with them, but I also think it’s silly to pay significant amounts of money for a hair-do. People who pay anywhere from $100 up for their hair to be sculpted in ways that are messed up by water are – IMHO – perfectly justified in being concerned about their investment. So they’re behaving logically in protecting it by using an umbrella. The illogical thing is blowing that much cash on such a temporary and silly sort of thing.

On umbrellas, I’m totally with you. I look down with contempt at the moronic bleating masses that are seamingly phobic of the slightest touch of rain. There was a light drizzle in Coventry a few days ago, brought in on the flimsiest of breezes. It wasn’t even worth putting a hood up for, let alone an umbrella. As I walked into town I passed several people who were struggling to cope with the concept that they might become slightly moister than usual. One woman in particular looked ridiculous, staggering across the road as if she was struggling through a hurricane, a piece of paper to protect her hair and a a face scrunched up in what must have been an agony of the soul.

But for girls especially, it’s the bloody hair that’s the thing. They can’t get their hair wet. It’ll frizz up. Oh dear god they may look sub-immaculate for a little while. Boo fucking hoo. A girl with wet hair is a girl with wet hair. The very worst that can come of this is that it will engender sympathy, and for me I am more impressed by someone willing to risk the perils of getting a bit wet than by someone so vain as to take measures to keep their hair in perfect dryness and order when there’s a massive rainstorm outside.

There was a hairdressers in (I think) Nottingham a while back called Public Hair. I didn’t get it at first. I had to have it explained to me. By my mum.

- The shaking of the oat milk was not a pleasant sound.
- Umbrellas are acceptable, especially when going to a job interview.
- There is a children’s toy shop in Glasgow called Weans’ World.
- In the future I would advise doing one rule an episode otherwise it becomes a tad tedious, though that in itself may be a tad too ‘format’ for your liking.

That is all.