Thursday, 9 April 2009

Death by umbrella

If you're carrying a massive closed umbrella under your arm in a busy tube station/on the escalator/on the street, is it too much to ask that you don't hold it horizontally - thus stabbing repeatedly anyone who might be walking behind you?

Perhaps it's a ploy to keep everyone at least three feet away from you, but in our craply laid-out city, there just isn't enough room for that personal space - especially at rush hour.

It's made worse if you swing your arm back and forth whilst holding the offending weapon thrust out behind you. Just use it like a walking stick like all normal people. Or get a smaller umbrella and put it in your man-bag. (Yes, it is usually men who are the offenders)

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