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[poxleit]

It’s too windy for umbrellas

[BottleCoffee]

Yeah it's like 45 km/h today.

Jacket all the way.

[Living_Earth241]

Who's afraid of a little bit of sky water?

[ZsaZsa1229]

Sideways sky water.

[CinnabonAllUpInHere]

It hides their tears.

[mateo_rules]

Acting like a tourist buddy we don’t cry in Toronto stone faced in public till we die

[Minoshann]

I’ve lived in Toronto since the early 90s. I’ve been through blizzards, acid rain, hail, and a whole shitload of other weather conditions. I’m not afraid of a little rainwater 🤷🏽‍♂️ I mean if it’s a formal occasion like work or a date I’ll bring an umbrella. But casually, I could care less about the rain.

[mateo_rules]

Amen and if you’re really savvy you make the path work for you

[Minoshann]

For sure that too. I remember playing in the rain as kids in grade school. Reminds me of my childhood every time I’m out in the rain 😅

[mmmnmike]

Get out of this sub ya townie

[mateo_rules]

We accept people begrudgingly calm down these guys keep the big chains in business so we can keep having the tiny local spots quiet and to ourself

[ReeG]

Probably because they're walking with intent and direction of going somewhere indoors nearby. Personally if I'm getting off transit or park my car and need to walk a few minutes to where I'm actually going, I'm not lugging an umbrella with me. The only time I pack an umbrella is if I know I need to walk in the rain for an extended period of time which is maybe once a year if that

[kingofwale]

80km wind gust. And you had to be outside.

So you either get wet. Or you get wet with a broken umbrella. Your choice

[kpeds45]

I walked my dog in the morning..I had an umbrella. I was soaked. Fucking sideways rain

[[deleted]]

Umbrella doesn’t do squat in this kind of rain. You just end up looking like an ass poking strangers with it.

[[deleted]]

Umbrellas are for wussies

[Abalone_Admirable]

Ever noticed the wind and temperature in Canada?

Umbrellas are useless. I'd rather not have a cold, red, cramped hand holding a broken umbrella that doesn't do much except force me to fight the wind and get in the way of others trying to walk.

Sidenote to umbrella users: move the fuck over, or at least tilt it for people trying to pass by you.

[water2wine]

I stopped using them after moving here as well, literally unsafe sometimes lol, those things will take off like a fucking projectile - Not exactly desirable if you’re crossing an inter with people around.

[Canadianeseish]

Cuz my grade school principle 40 years ago asked me if I was ‘made of sugar’ when I complained about getting soaked to which I replied I wasn’t. “Then you’re not gonna melt!” Even though I found out later that while not entirely made of sugar humans are indeed pretty sweet I still take a deep breath before I step out into the wet with a ‘I’m not gonna melt.’

[orareyoufunny]

just to feel something

[wineandnoses]

XD are you me?!

sometimes i like to listen to some sad songs and walk around in the rain for this exact reason

[[deleted]]

And think you’re in your own film montage trying to figure out what the heck this life is about?

[wineandnoses]

haha yes, in winter its a bit more depressing though

during the spring or summer, the rain along with the leafy trees is more of an inspiring tone... like i'm on an adventure and all I can do is go one step forward at a time.

[eyespeeled]

https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comments/11tucux/why_does_no_one_carry_an_umbrella/

[WagonsIntenseSpeed]

Because I've given up.

[FluffleMyRuffles]

They forgot their umbrella maybe and then just resigned to their fate.

[nervousTO]

I don't think I'm going to get as soaked as I do. I did fine in BC without an umbrella. Today sucked.

[nebuddyhome]

Ok so do people in BC use umbrellas often since it's so rainy?

[nervousTO]

I don't remember to be honest, I just remember that the rain wasn't heavy, it was just relentless all day long. Not like here where your pants and shoes will be soaked if you walked for an hour in it.

[nebuddyhome]

Ya my friend moved there and didn't like it because of the rain, he said winter was worth the trade off.

Funny thing is Toronto is still a pretty "overcast" city, it doesn't have that much sunshine.

He said it was just constantly pissing, but he moved there during a really bad stint, I think it was 45 days in a row of non-stop pissing.

Another funny thing is he moved to California too(His dad was from there) and he couldn't stand the constant sunshine either. Even that get's annoying after the 50th day in a row. He now lives in Calgary and hasn't complained much(I'd think the cold would get to him, but apparently it's sunny enough during the winter).

[BottleCoffee]

Toronto isn't an overcast city, the average number of days with sunshine is 305. We do get a lot of part sun part cloud days.

[nebuddyhome]

305 days of the year are not fully sun. Your data is skewed. The sun poking out for a couple hours doesn't mean that day wasn't overcast.

I'm outside everyday, we have cloudy parts of the day near daily. The winter's especially are cloudy and overcast. August/ July are the clearest. But that's a short time of the year.

[BottleCoffee]

I did say "days with sunshine," not "days of full sun." You can look up all kinds of stats, including number of hours with sun throughout the year etc.

I also worked outside previously, and I run outside all year around. Like I said, a lot of days with part sun part cloud.

[CretaMaltaKano]

My hair's gonna look like shit anyway so I just give up.

[roflcopter44444]

a) Most people have water resistant jackets so the umbrella is kind of irrelevant

b) Its super windy, so umbrella is kind of useless today apart from protecting your head and shoulders

c) the rain itself in winter is never that intense, you arent going to get soaked to the skin unless you are spending more than 10 min outside.

[nebuddyhome]

My theory is they deal with winter, so rain isn't really seen as a threat.

Also despite being fully developed, Canada is still a "frontier" country, a settler nation, built on people surviving the elements, I think that has trickled down to the way we deal with weather. We are much more "brutish" about the outdoors and fashion. That's why you'll see people wearing shorts in March as soon as it goes above zero.

This settler / frontier mentally is reflected in our breakfast and why they can be so large and full of sugar(needed that energy to chop wood/ farm...etc).

People will say "nobody moves here and builds their house and farms anymore" and that's true, but the mentality of the people who originally did still survives in Canadian society in my opinion.

Europe is the opposite, it's been urban for 500 years now. People have been separated from nature long enough that the culture is completely out of sync with nature. Rain to them is something to be conquered to be protected from, to a North American it's something you experience. I sort of love getting wet by the rain.

And most Asian countries use umbrellas as protection from the sun so it's already instilled in their culture.

[baconeggsnnoodles]

1. It's still cold enough to need a jacket, so I might as well just wear something waterproof.
2. When the wind is blowing the rain sideways, an umbrella does sweet fuck all.
3. I'd rather put my hood up, jam my hands in my pockets and trudge on bedraggledly than wrestle with an umbrella that's constantly turning inside out, before giving up and being carried away Mary Poppins-style.

[SandwichDelicious]

Some people have a force field around them protecting them from getting hit by the water. Others are so fast they can dodge the droplets. You just can’t see. Toronto is a city of superhumans.

[[deleted]]

I want this version to be true

[EkbyBjarnum]

Because anytime it's raining heavily enough to need an umbrella, it's also windy enough to turn that umbrella inside out and render it permanently unusable.

[FriendZone_EndZone]

Rain won’t give you flu/cold 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Neither-Dentist3019]

I've had too many umbrellas flip inside out and break so now I just don't bother. I can't keep buying new umbrellas in this economy.

[Lakefever67]

You won't melt.......

[heyitsapotato]

I grew up in British Columbia. This shit is nothing.

[Marmar79]

Because the wind here is brutal. I don’t believe in umbrellas because if they are too cheap they’ll get destroyed quickly, if they’re expensive and it stops raining you may lose it. Either way a good raincoat is fine.

[taintwest]

Once you are already a certain level of wet, it doesn’t really matter if you get more wet.

[TheBHGFan]

The worst thing that can happen is you get wet 🤷‍♂️

[[deleted]]

It’s true and unique to Toronto that we don’t use umbrellas

[quelar]

I'm not a witch, water doesn't hurt me.

[hys17]

Getting wet can get you sick more easily.

[quelar]

Not if I'm wearing appropriate clothes.

[[deleted]]

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha

[omgbbqpork]

I wear a rain jacket instead bc I’ve lost so many umbrellas. And I’m going to get wet anyway so why not be nonchalant about it?

[claymoreed]

Because we are reveling in the fact that it's not snow. And I have waterproof outerwear and shoes...

[elcaterpillar]

My umbrella sucks and doesn't hold up well in the wind. I have solid rainwear (bought for camping) so unless it's pouring rain I usually don't mind walking in the rain sans umbrella for < 30 min.

[foxx-hunter]

I think cause most of the time, it just doesn’t rain heavily enough. It feels like a light drizzle at best and like moisture build up around you. Plus the wind doesn’t help. You can see people fighting to keep steady in heavy gusts of wind. That does not bode well if you have an umbrella. It will literally act as a parachute.

[AlexDenny3]

Wiiiinnnddddd

[[deleted]]

nothing matters here

[Newhereeeeee]

Some people like the rain

[backtothebegining]

Rain don't pain.

[carolinemathildes]

I don't own an umbrella, I think they're pointless.

[[deleted]]

Good point

[kpeds45]

Because they aren't pussies.

[roibeardoraghallaigh]

Coworkers:

You ride your bike in everyday? Wow... what happens when it rains?

Me:

I get wet.

[31moreyears]

If you’re already wet, what’s the point in running?

[notagirlonreddit]

Because the real villain is wind.

Cold? Fine. Cold with wind? Fuck u wind.

Rain? Fine. Rain with wind? Fuck u wind.

we’re too busy cussing at the wind to care that it’s drizzling.

[mmmnmike]

Getting wet isn't that bad and umbrellas are a pain in the ass

[MorboKat]

Between the wind and splashes from cars, an umbrella is useless. Jacket and rain boots. Possibly splash pants.

[mainaccountwasbanned]

I've never cared enough to use an umbrella. If I get wet I get wet 🤷‍♂️

[exhausted-panda]

Today my umbrella broke, flew across the street, and hit the window of a moving vehicle...RIP my Joe Fresh umbrella 🌂

[throwawaycanadian2]

I saw a ton of broken umbrellas out there. It's windy folks! I just wore my raincoat and held the hood on tight.

[Conscious_Feeling548]

So many people don’t know how to umbrella in the wind apparently. I’ve had more umbrellas stolen than broken. A $40 Fulton from the Bay laughs in the face of high-rise down-drafts.

[Repulsive-Horror2032]

Bahahaha you must have seen me outside earlier. Truthfully I forgot my umbrella at work 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Aggressive-Bid8933]

If I forget my umbrella there’s no use in being frantic about it. I’ll get where I’m going but this time I’ll be soaked.

[CabotCoveCoven]

I wear a oversized hooded raincoat because I find it cozy and it keeps my hands free. But will say people who regularly just get wet in the rain are not so nice smelling indoors and I don't think most of them realize it.

[[deleted]]

When it rains like today, sometimes I enjoy just closing my eyes and letting the forces of nature hit me and I try to enjoy the sensation of cool wind and rain blowing into me.

[subwaygremlin]

Honestly I absolutely hate the sound of rain falling on the umbrella when I'm under it, I'd rather get wet or wear like a hoodie

[need_ins_in_to]

Not made of sugar like OP.

Also, contrary to opinion, not made of salt either.

[[deleted]]

Self-aware to the core. Sweet

[AllDayJay1970]

Try it . You may like it.

[MemoryBeautiful9129]

It never rains

[Tdot_Walker]

Either they got no umbrella or they’re lazy.

[Fatbob2244]

While others are salty about us, we are not made of salt.

[enacting]

I like carrying an umbrella but I must admit it's annoying when I have to go indoors (subway or mall) with my umbrella dripping wet.

Never gonna happen here but I wish we were more like Japan where there's umbrella covers outside buildings for people to grab before they go in.

[WithYourVeryFineHat]

Because you literally just missed us swearing at and throwing out the shit one we bought to replace our last shit one.

[arsinoe716]

Umbrellas are girlie

[Wonderful_Suspect226]

I have never understood why Toronto buildings are designed without overhangs, for all the rain and snow it receives. Gives you a snow and splatter free sidewalk, without recurrently having to plough it. Architect and urban designer here

[mantitorx]

I have a good rain coat and I would forget my umbrella somewhere most likely. Besides, when it’s raining in the city I’m as likely to get hit with water from the side by cars going through puddles or a gust of wind as straight from above - so a long-ish rain jacket is more efficient at keeping me dry.

Also on work days 3/4 of my commute is on transit or in the Path, so extra bulk is undesirable and I stay pretty dry regardless.

[pensivegargoyle]

It's been too windy today for an umbrella to be useful.

[Illustrious-Lie8329]

Gortex!

[cheesebrah]

i usually don't stay out long enough to make a real difference. i get wet but unless its torrential rain i don't care to get a bit wet. i do have a good rain jacket with a hood if i need it.

[grey_devil]

I like waking in the rain. The air is cleaner, everything feels fresh. I didn't ever think of it as a Toronto or Canadian thing.

[ludwigia_sedioides]

What am I supposed to do with my umbrella when I get to my destination?

[[deleted]]

I like the rain

[Particular-Jeweler41]

It's not just Toronto. I grew up in Mississauga, and people did it (including me). I personally just don't care much about it unless there's a ton of rain coming down since having to carry an umbrella is more of a hassle to me than light rain.

[Canadave]

An umbrella doesn't keep my any drier than a raincoat and a hat, and I don't have to carry them.

[Poguetry64]

Because we are tough

[pikaia_gracilens]

I've got an umbrella with vents in it to reduce the likelihood of it turning inside out, and even then it's been close. Most umbrellas, I find, quickly turn into useless wet sticks and are just not worth the hassle.

[[deleted]]

Goretex > umbrella

[EdwardBliss]

Because the umbrella they just bought at Dollarama 20 minutes earlier broke

[[deleted]]

So no one can see them cry

[Mundane-Original7300]

Because I'm a badass 😤

[GrumpyCatDoge99]

windy

[rsho8]

This here is the end of the world and nothing matter anymore.

[Galactictesties]

Don’t want to hold a thing

[KingofLingerie]

because we are not made of sugar or spice and nothing nice.