Context matters obviously, nobody wants it to be pouring down on their wedding day or in their best clothes and makeup if you’ve got somewhere to be, but I don’t understand the people who immediately open umbrellas and start running to get out of it: it’s not that big of a deal.
The smell of fresh rain on grass, concrete, especially if you’re listening to music is nothing short of heavenly
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Agreed love the rain
There can be lots of reasons. There are people who enjoy it and who don’t. There are clothes and makeup that can get pretty fucked under rain. It basically forces you to do laundry in the same day because of the lingering smell. If you are spending a long time outside you don’t want to get wet because you will stay wet for a long time. Which isn’t a fun time. This is not an unpopular opinion. Just lack of insight.
Its because they dont want to be wet wherever they are going.
I think a jacket hood is better than an umbrella honestly
I wear glasses homie
Agreed. It feels cleansing
I like walking it in while listening to sunshine and lollipops. I feel so giddy
As long as your socks stay dry, absolutely agree!
I don’t like sitting around in wet clothes and wet socks. It’s VERY uncomfortable. (Don’t even get me started on if the place I’m going to has the AC blasting).
I also hate nonconsensual splashes. Even in pools. Part of the reason why I only do “adults-only” resorts lol. So yeah, the clouds can fuck off.
I love going outside in the rain when I’m home and can go inside and get dry but it is both uncomfortable and dangerous to be in wet clothes and shoes for a long time, so yeah, if I’m caught unsuspecting out and about I’m gonna try to stay dry. Ever heard of trench foot?
This isn’t an opinion – “it’s fun” is an opinion but “it’s not a problem” is objectively false in many situations.
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If you’re out and about, being in wet clothes all day sucks and can make you sick.
You have to take the time to change, dry your clothes and get something else.
I find when it’s hot and it rains, Nats and squitos hit you full force.
Shoes are wet for like a day or two.
If I’m out during the day, it’s for a purpose, I don’t want to be wet for whatever I’m going to.
I work outside 70% of the time so I may be biased.. but I absolutely hate the rain.
There’s nothing I love more than my once a year summer rain walk. It’s perfect. It starts with a hot day, then gets cloudy and the air is charged with energy of the coming storm, the warm wind kicks up. The first sprinkles. Then the rain comes in earnest. Thunder booms. Lightening flashes. Nature at work. It passes quickly but your soaked. The sun peaks out and the humidity kicks up. The insects and birds make more noise than before the storm. And suddenly for a moment even suburbia feels a bit like a rainforest or jungle. Perfection.
Fuck this. It’s all fun and games until your socks get wet. That is the worst feeling ever. If I was ever getting tortured they would just have to wet my socks and I’m telling everything.
I remember sneaking out as a child because it had been a hot summer day and I wanted to play in the rain. I had no idea the rain would be so cold!
It is if you wear prescription glasses.
Do you not have lightning where you live?
I already assume you don’t wear makeup or any sort of hair products. I’m guessing maybe you also don’t own an umbrella?
I’m sure at least half the population wouldn’t be comfortable with their tops becoming semi transparent or sticking to their figure, especially if they are out in public. Some fabrics can be ruined by random wet spots. Or maybe they don’t want to be chilly when they go into an air conditioned building.
It is fine for you have this opinion for yourself. But not being able to imagine a myriad of concerns that others might have just means you lack imagination. If you were talking about people in their own backyards, that might be different, but you seem to be talking about people in general when they are out in the world.
When you are out in the rain, if you feel a static charge in the air, squat down as small as you can with only your feet touching the ground.
Walking in the rain is fun. Sitting in damp clothes isn’t.
I dont like being wet and cold OP
Depends on wheee you are.
I lived in Arkansas for 20 years, rain was a welcome relief in the summer. That rain always felt good to me.
I live in Iowa now, rain is always cold. Even if it’s 100defrees out, the rain is cold, I don’t walk in the rain here.
So to me it depends on where you are
I don’t want to catch bronchitis wtf
This is the whitest post I’ve ever seen…
I got sensory issues where if it starts rain in I’m acutely aware of every single raindrop that hits my skin. I can put up with it but I’d rather not
There’s actually zero positives to walking in the rain. What is fun about small amounts of water constantly splashing you? It’s like God is pissing in a urinal above your head.
I live in Washington where it rains pretty much constantly for three seasons. I don’t mind walking in the rain, but I do hate walking in it when I’m wearing something cottony where it absorbs all the rain. Besides that, I don’t mind it all too much.
Context is irrelevant, wet clothes suck ass and are so uncomfortable. Is it a big deal? No, not really. Am I still going to try and keep myself dry? Yes.
I’m a hiker and ofte I’m pretty happy when some rain comes. Not torrents or massive thunderstorms so much, but a shower is refreshing.
When it rains its either winter, in which its cold or it’s not winter in which case its going to be cold as fuck if I’m damp indoors wherever I’m heading.
I don’t like being cold.
Wet shoes smell fucking terrible and I dont wanna get my phone wet
If I’m walking the dog sure I don’t care cuz I’ll go home and change into pjs. But if it’s on the way to work I’m going to have wet feet my whole shift is just awful.
If I was ever going to get married, I’d be delighted for it to rain on my wedding day.
As long as you warm.
Highly situational. If I know I’ll be walking around for a while in an area I can dry out afterwards, or can get a change of clothes, then walking in the rain is fine. If I’m working and I’m going to be soaked while sitting at a desk for an hour, then no… Not fine
Temperature has a lot to do with it. 45°F and rain is not fun.
If my hair gets rained on, I have the choice to either deal with a huge snarled knot in the near future, or to immediately stop what I’m doing, unbraid it or take the pins out, brush it, and let it fully dry, which takes a good two hours on a good day.
I usually have somewhere I need to be and don’t want to show up soaking wet. I don’t mind being out in the rain, but I’m going to have an umbrella…I’m usually going somewhere like walking from the train to my office or office to the train and either way I don’t want to be soaking wet.
I can’t stand the smell of wet grass. And I prefer not to get wet on my way to wherever I’m going.
I’m a pretty “outdoorsy” person and I get why others don’t want to be wet, but like you, I don’t mind it so much.
I’ll be outside in the rain whether it’s 15° or 95°
Not when you have an $800 dollar, dubiously watertight, piece of tech that has all of your important information on without an umbrella.
When you have frizzy hair that takes forever to straighten, you don’t even want to go near moisture/humidity let alone rain.
My £1200 mobile phone will disagree
If you’re dressed properly, I agree. When you’re not dressed right, it’s pretty miserable. Worst I’ve ever seen was on a 15 minute walk home where I had a shower proof (not water proof) jacket over a shirt, and suit trousers. Got caught in the worst rain shower you can imagine and I swear to god I was so wet that you could even wring the water out of my underwear when I got home. Proper miserable lol.