I hate umbrellas.

So the weather has definitely turned for the better. Well, in temperatures that is. Over the past week or so we have consistently made the high teens, and a couple of twenty-type numbers have even been reached.

Unfortunately, with this warmer weather comes the rain. And umbrellas. I strongly dislike umbrellas. And I have always attempted to avoid using them, although that isn't going so well over here.

Another thing I strongly dislike, and which is my biggest annoyance factor while living over here, is the MASSIVE lack of spatial awareness Koreans have. Walking the streets - usually at a faster pace than the normal high-heeled-wearing, arm-linking female Korean - is a frustrating ordeal for myself. As they negotiate the uneven footpath, in heels, with an apparent inability to walk without holding hands, or talking on their mobiles, they veer from side to side and leave you no option but to walk on the road. Which considering the way in which the motorcycles and scooters run the footpaths, it ain't that bad of an idea some times.

But life has got worse. Koreans with umbrellas.

Nothing is highlighting their lack of spatial awareness more. A mobile phone in one hand, that is linked to their friends arm, while holding their purse on the other hand and an umbrella... an extension of themselves. Hell, they can't even negotiate themselves as it is. Let alone a contraption that makes them taller and wider, with numerous metal spike-like ends.

Walking the streets of Seoul in fine weather is annoying. Walking the streets of Seoul with an umbrella is incredibly frustrating. Not to mention dangerous.

And then you run the streets of Seoul. In the rain.

It's like catching the rapid train to Rage Town. And I jumped on at the first stop.