I am way more likely to leave my umbrellas safely at home where they will neither get lost nor keep me dry than to lose them. I used to have a telescoping umbrella in the car, when I had a that-sized pocket on a door, but I don't have that car anymore. I probably do still have the umbrella. It's possible I tossed it in the trunk, but that's not much better than leaving it at home.

I did spend a possibly unreasonable amount (although not in the realm of self-defense umbrellas) on a Blade Runner style umbrella because I thought it would be useful to have a light up shaft since Winter is the rainy season and the dark season here, but I haven't had many occasions to use it. Looks nice in my faux butter churn.

I currently have two umbrellas in my office and one in my apartment. I should be covered, given that I generally won't carry one unless it's actively raining when I'm heading out. They are all crappy, though.

But Jesse and t-, you both have actual weather. Granted, it's been overcast and rainy-ish here for the past two days. But LA doesn't get enough rain to justify a nice umbrella.

Blargh.

The nice thing about the lost and found at work is the new unmbrellas that I get to pilfer. I feel bad that I put a cigarrette burn somehow into my Monet umbrella. And the golf umbrella I borrowed from work leaks like a sieve during an actual downpour, which makes sense, since we would have gotten the cheapest one we could afford.

I do get a fair amount of use from my parasol. Portable shade is the bomb.

I do think the WWF one is about to fall apart, but I have one from a defunct theatre company and another from a lost & found sitting in my closet.

I have coveted a parasol for a while.

I really shouldn't post on an LJ community post about my employer, right?

I was going to ask what you were going to post, but really, I'll go with the flat "probably not".

Yeah, I was starting to respond not as an employee (I have general thoughts about the issue raised), and then I thought maybe I could respond as an employee, and then decided not to. But I had to type something somewhere! You're welcome.