Monday, May 15, 2006

We're Irish, but we don't know what to do when it rains!

Raining heavily this morning, and every schoolkid I saw going to school, and 90% of all the other pedestrians, had no umbrella or raincoat, and were simply standing there getting wet. Unbelieveable. This happens all the time in Limerick. Why? Perhaps raincoats and umbrellas are "un-cool" ? Well, I think looking like a drowned rat is un-cool too! What is most unfathomable is how we as a nation seem so unprepared for rain in a country that has rain as a constant companion. Roads flood, people don't carry umbrellas or waterproof coats, walkways between buildings in universities are not covered (apart from UCD, in fairness)...