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One of the staff just brought me my new company-branded umbrella (my old one fell to pieces). I thought it was pretty cool on its own until she showed me THE BONUS FEATURE.

Not only does the umbrella open when you push a button, but if it's already open and you push the button again...it closes on its own.

Five bucks says I manage to close it on my head the first time I use it.

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've got a brolly like that! Very useful (if you remember to close it when it's not above your head, eugh).

[slice254.livejournal.com]

I have one of those. Mine just collapses when you push the button - it doesn't retract, and I keep pinching my fingers when I try manually retract it.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Those are pretty awesome. I still miss my umbrella that I could close really easily one-handed - not quite as great as a button, but still better than yanking with all my might to get the stupid thing to stay closed.

[capt-spork.livejournal.com]

1. That is pretty awesome, for a brolly.
2. That is a sucker bet.

[an-sceal.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should just add the "ways I have injured myself" tag to this post now, to save yourself some time.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Don't imagine I didn't consider it. :D

[an-sceal.livejournal.com]

It seemed like you would have. :)

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Oh dear gods. I can SO see my ferrets figuring out how to operate the button and then spending HOURS AND HOURS dancing around the umbrella as they take turns opening and closing it, over and over and over and over and over... It'd be like a Weasle Maypole.

[chicleeblair.livejournal.com]

you win at the internet

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you! I've always wanted an internet of my very own! I shall name it George. And my four weasles are clever little buggers-- they open cabinets, drawstrings and the occasional zipper. If they got hold of this, they'd have a field day.

[chicleeblair.livejournal.com]

it was just such a great image!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm totally picturing one of them sitting on it and the other pushing the button and flinging the first one across the room...

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Tanuki: "BOCKBOCKBOCKREADY?!?"
Hanabi: "BOCKFRICKIN'BOCK! FIRE ALREADY!"
**fliiiiing! wham!**
Chai and Shima: "MYTURNMYTURNMYTURNMYTURN!!!"

[illariy.livejournal.com]

My mother had one with that feature. I thought it was very handy until it turned out that occasionally the umbrella would pop open again a short while after being shut. I too can see the "ways I have injured myself" tag in your future. ;-)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Funnier still because I have a designated Umbrella Pocket in my messenger bag, so if it tries to open it's going to blow the bag...

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I'm not allowed to use self-closing umbrellas, because I totally push the button accidentally when it's raining and then get soaked AND whapped on the skull.

[darkbunny.livejournal.com]

Before using it, read this post (http://metaquotes.livejournal.com/6307367.html) on the dangers of this useful-yet-tricky device.

[florahart]

*ded*

[sherylyn]

Oh. my. word.

That is one of the funniest things EVER!!!!

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Laughing so hard right now! Thanks for linking.

[azure-chaos.livejournal.com]

*ded of lulz*

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

So, I'd read that entry before, and as soon as I saw what it was I thought MUST NOT READ AT WORK. Every time I read it, I end up weeping with laughter at the line about the dog snapping back like a tetherball.

[darkbunny.livejournal.com]

Not just any tetherball. An irate tetherball.

EDIT: HTMLfail

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

...I just laughed my ass off while reading this; unfortunately I'm at work, and there's a stack of autopsy reports in front of me, very visable. Inappropriate much?

STILL. TETHERBALL. SHOT IN THE ASS. Gods, I am so twelve-years-old some days. **diiiies**

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

CANNOT BREATHE, LOLING TOO HARD

How did I never see that post before? O_O :D

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Or you could push it too hard so it opens again, when Chicago is having one of it's Windy City nickname days. And go Mary Poppins'ing over the lake.....

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

No bet. I reckon the first time you use it you'll be really careful and it'll be fine. But the second time...

[orangepenguino.livejournal.com]

Years ago, my mom called me over to the umbrella section of a department store and breathlessly explained, "This the most amazing umbrella! It OPENS and CLOSES, Katie!" The failure to mention "at the push of a button" has given me years of lulz. That said, it is a really cool feature.

[florahart]

I'm not taking that bet.

...More likely scenario, given this is you: you close it on your head just in time to not see the totally unseasonable and ridiculous ice on the sidewalk (freak liquid nitrogen accident), slip, and wind up being one of those stories ER residents have about things they had to remove from uncomfortable placements in persons coming in with situations stories as to their accidents.

[xntrick.livejournal.com]

The fact that you can get into the driver's seat and dump stuff in the passenger seat as you close the umbrella is great. Only my left arm sort-of gets wet.

Basically, perfect umbrella for when you only have one hand available.

Of course, no one ever quite believes I need umbrellas in SoCal but yeah.

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

...Ten bucks says you do it the second time, too. :D

[lady-phi.livejournal.com]

Sorcery! Such defiance of physics is why I have never trusted umbrellas...

[stephani673.livejournal.com]

I caught myself in the eye on the way down. Be careful!

[sinick.livejournal.com]

THE UMBRELLA WILL EAT YOU.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOO

[sinick.livejournal.com]

IT IS AN OMNOMNOMNOMBRELLA I TELL YOU

[steeldreams.livejournal.com]

Ways you foresee injuring yourself?

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Appropriate icon is appropriate?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Mycroft probably has to be careful not to push the second button, which shoots people from the end of it.

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

When my dad first got an automatic umbrella, he somehow managed to hook it under a lady's skirt and hoist it up with the mechanism. In church. He was mortified, I almost died laughing. xxx