Now is very much the rainy season in the Fragrant Harbour. In fact, we’ve already had a spell of Black Rain, several treats of Red Rain and a T8 warning. Which is shorthand for maximum typhoon warning.
Every couple of days, the city is cooled down by torrential, tropical rainstorms. An umbrella is something you now carry with you, even if its sunny in the morning.
But with that, comes a warning. Slow-walking pedestrians now also sport their umbrellas, and because of the differential in their mean height and my own, their umbrellas are at eye-level to me. Which could mean that you could literally be blindsided by an umbrella any moment.
So when it’s raining, and you are around six feet tall, don’t forget to take sunglasses. Because it’s no fun when somebody loses an eye.
