On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:35:14 -0500, ESAD wrote:

On 1/20/13 5:40 PM, Chuck Gould wrote:
On Jan 20, 5:19 am, ESAD wrote:
On 1/19/13 11:46 PM, Chuck Gould wrote:

You guys from everywhere else but here, take a look a the Boat Show ad
for a look at a "typical" Seattle woman, enjoying "typical" Seattle
weather. :-)

digital.turn-page.com/i/101224/1

That woman has a tan and sunglasses, so she probably was flown in from
somewhere else.

Two odd things about Seattle. We are one of the leading markets for
sunglasses. We buy more of them, on a per capita basis, than most
cities in the United States. Why would that be? Usually works like
this; when the sun comes out we yell "oh no, my eyes! my eyes! I can't
stand the bright light!" and we rush out and buy a pair of
sunglasses. When the sun comes out again, we have forgotten where we
put the pair we bought on the last sunny day, 7 or 8 months ago. What
we don't buy in big numbers? Umbrellas.


Because you are already soaked? The few people I know in the Seattle
area seem to like it a lot.

You learn to dress for the weather up here but there's still times
that umbrellas come in handy. We own a couple.