Though there is a festival in Seattle called Bumbershoot, many people simply didn't use umbrellas, at least not when I was growing up there. I was one of them; umbrellas are too easy to destroy in a breeze. So when I moved to New York City I continued the practice of wearing a rain slicker with a hood and nearly had my eye put out many times by idiots walking with umbrellas unfurled under the covered sidewalk. Either use the umbrella and walk next to the street in the rain, or put the damned thing away and share the covered space.

I believe I gave a few people the stink eye when they were particularly careless.