OK, where do we live? Does it rain here for half the year?…Yes!…Has it always and will it forever?…Of course! Who can’t get it into their head to invest in a proper rain jacket that is RE-USABLE?? Stones concert last year, Kiss concert this year, pissing down rain from the morning on..Right? Half the people show up either in no rain coat or buy a disposable piece of crap see-through garbage bag rain poncho. If I rub up against you with a piece of Velcro your coat becomes useless. What is the deal? Does nobody watch the weather? Is there a shortage on ten dollar jackets that last you a lifetime? NO!! Rain coats are available! Make the investment. Don’t pretend you live in the desert, and don’t fill the landfills with your ugly garbage body condoms.
—Danger
This article appears in Jul 16-22, 2009.
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If I’m going to a concert and it might rain, the last thing I want in the end is to have to drag around a heavy bulky rain coat all day. Concert ponchos all the way.
tie it around yo’ waist PAS!
….unless you’re horribly large girth’d, waist wise.
It’s HARD to find a really good rain jacket that doesn’t leak at some point. Trust me, I’ve been through enough of those mother fuckers. And don’t even BOTHER with an umbrella in these parts — one stroll down Barrington and it’s goodbye “wind-proof” 30 dollar umbrella.
And half the fun OF a concert in the rain is wearing a concert poncho like everyone else.
OP unless your the one wearing the crappy rain coat I don’t see why you should care what other people wear. Maybe they like the thin plastic ones. Just beacuse you like one type doesn’t make other peoples choices wrong. Ya never know maybe they are thinking the same thing about you.
who wants to drag a rain coat around?
I half expected the OP to start ranting about how plastic ponchos aren’t environmentally friendly halfway through the bitch. But nothing. Then I thought that maybe OP was pissed off because they overheard a bunch of people complaining about their wet clothes. But nothing.
I am forced to conclude that OP is gravely concerned for the well-being and overall dryness of crowds.
Actually, the OP did mention environmental concerns
“…and don’t fill the landfills with your ugly garbage body condoms”
wow, op sounds a pretty pissed off over simple raincoats.
Take er easy man its just a jacket
Elite: someone could win the lottery and STILL write a bitch about how pissed off they are that they have to decide what to do with all that money.
That’s just how it rolls on LTWWB.
They did! My mistake 🙂
Sometimes it’s just easier to drop a few dollars on an “ugly garbage body condom” than it is to drag a sensibe rain jacket of quality construction around. The ponchos are essentially large plastic bags so I’m sure they can be recycled.
How is this a bitch? OP is an idiot! You pay money to see a concert, wear whatever the fuck you want to wear
I just wish I was one of the enterprising folk that sold the 20 cent ugly garbage body condoms for $4!
That’s sooo opportunist and savvy!
But shit, why don’t they come with wing holes in the back?
HA.
I’m glad I brought a poncho.. it didn’t even rain much..so i just stuffed it in my bag. What would I have done with a big rain jacket?
I don’t have to worry about being upset if someone steals my body condom.
Yea, those dollar store rain poncho are a great invention. I get like 6 of them, so if one rips, I can put another one on.
And you can get ones with like, Superman on them.
cranky, you’re not seriously backing people buying a 362 dollar jacket? that is sheer insanity.
Why not? People were dumb enough to buy Canada Goose parkas to withstand our -5 deg winters hahahahaha
Barbour coats run 400+ BTW but you can’t buy one around here anyway.
Anyone remember Far West jackets?
Those Columbia jackets popular with the late-high school 1st/2nd year university crowd are this millennium’s “Far West” jacket. And Vuarnet has been replaced by Bench.