prayers for rain
Oct. 7th, 2008 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rackmounti lost my umbrella. i lost my best umbrella ever, the one i found on the subway a year or two ago, the one with the embarassingly trademarked plaid, the one i wouldnt have kept but for it's tiny indistructability. it's now living with some italian who picked it up in the restaurant where i left it. i hope it went to the right sort of person, someone who'd rather it did not come in trademarked plaid.
it reminded me of a late afternoon many years ago, when i showed up at this boy's door in my burberry rain coat, the white one that looked like a lab coat. big white rubber boots before everyone started wearing rubber boots. and the see-through umbrella with white trim. he said i looked like a girlfriend should look.
i didnt realize at the time that it was an insult.
but then, at the time, it was so happy-making. i don't generally like rain so much, but through force of will, ive decided to like it. i think of the prayers for rain preceding my mississippi aerobics class, the unchic ladies who wanted a workout and god and for the crops to grow. who prays for rain?
i finally remembered during this drenched fall that i'd like a replacement. turns out, i picked up a $125 umbrella. so it's only right that i lost it. now i have to decide if it is better to spend $$$ on a perfect umbrella, or to simply buy the occasional $5 umbrella. $125 buys a lot of crap umbrellas. do any of you have a secret, non-trademarked, indestructible tiny umbrella that might be a little less than $125? remember, i work in the city, where wind blows off the ocean. it's not as crazy as boston wind, but it's still pretty fierce.
it reminded me of a late afternoon many years ago, when i showed up at this boy's door in my burberry rain coat, the white one that looked like a lab coat. big white rubber boots before everyone started wearing rubber boots. and the see-through umbrella with white trim. he said i looked like a girlfriend should look.
i didnt realize at the time that it was an insult.
but then, at the time, it was so happy-making. i don't generally like rain so much, but through force of will, ive decided to like it. i think of the prayers for rain preceding my mississippi aerobics class, the unchic ladies who wanted a workout and god and for the crops to grow. who prays for rain?
i finally remembered during this drenched fall that i'd like a replacement. turns out, i picked up a $125 umbrella. so it's only right that i lost it. now i have to decide if it is better to spend $$$ on a perfect umbrella, or to simply buy the occasional $5 umbrella. $125 buys a lot of crap umbrellas. do any of you have a secret, non-trademarked, indestructible tiny umbrella that might be a little less than $125? remember, i work in the city, where wind blows off the ocean. it's not as crazy as boston wind, but it's still pretty fierce.
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Date: 2008-10-08 03:45 am (UTC)You should write a novel of your own, if you haven't done so already.
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Date: 2008-10-08 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 12:04 am (UTC)I don't know anything about umbrellas, particularly little ones. I prefer the sturdy Raines (?) umbrellas w/curved wooden handles that cost about $15 I think. Or any kind of large golf type umbrella, which you really need in the Boston wind. Also, one of my bosses lives at the Four Seasons and I rather like borrowing those umbrellas, which have grey canvas with "The Four Seasons" in small white script and a straight wooden handle. Classy.
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Date: 2008-10-09 02:55 pm (UTC)he probably didnt really mean it as an insult, but it was one of those moments that was wonderful at the time but soured in retrospect because of the way our breakup went down. something about how the things that make someone a great girlfriend don't necessarily make a good wife. you can imagine how him saying that made me question everything that ever happened including the good things.
i had a golf umbrella the year that i worked in fort point channel. crossing that river was always impossible. but i need something small for my purse and it's very hard to find small umbrellas that arent crap. that's how i came to fall in love with my burberry subway umbrella. i never knew they made small umbrellas that actually work.
the four seasons umbrella! too much!