There being no prior umbrella thread,
except a thread from 2003
about someone getting kicked out of a hotel
and someone else kindly ensuring
that the first someone's brolly was retrieved for him
and returned to him,

the time has come for a Mudcat umbrella thread.

My longtime folding umbrella was misplaced sometime this month.
Some of those folding metal thingies were bent out of shape
after years of resisting high winds.
The thing still worked, after a fashion.

Anyway I made the fateful decision to
acquire an umbrella with
A Lifetime Guarantee,
a thing I have never before had in my life.

Are there lots of umbrella brands out there with
Lifetime Guarantees?
Or any Guarantees whatever,
besides the one I just chose?

The order went online during the last seven days or so,
and now there is a post at my e-mail account
saying that the package was delivered to my home
( a computer is not in my home,
I'm reading my e-mails at the library's public computer stations).

Would you like me to report back on
Lifetime Guarantees for Umbrellas?

And what does everybody else at Mudcat
have to disclose / vent / report about any or all umbrellas?