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When caught out in the rain do you start running to your destination?

Do you start running when it rains?


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Ofuh

Warlord
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I understand if it starts pouring and you are wearing a good suit or something, but sometimes it just starts drizzling and people in their everday clothes start running from their lives as if the rain will melt their skin upon impact.
Maybe I still subconsciously have the elementary school mentality of it being uncool to be afraid of the rain and or run/use an umbrella.
What about you guys? (Edit: and girls, before any ********s jump on me ;)
 

Godwynn

March to the Sea
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I hate getting wet when I don't want to be.
 

cubsfan6506

Got u
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I vaugully recall reading somewhere that you get wetter running than you do walking.
 

geminisama

Resident Batman
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I like the rain, so I wouldn't run from it. The thing is, I never get rain. D:
 

crabapple

I am watching
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you get wetter faster, but you get faster to your destination also ;)
 

Leonel

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Nope. I figure I'm going to get wet anyway so why bother exerting that much effort.
 

Fugitive Sisyphus

Escape Artist
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It depends on whether there are any females in white shirts near by. :mischief:
 

cubsfan6506

Got u
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Fake a groin injury if they are actually with you.
 

b etor

princess
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no, i love the rain.
when i'm at amusement parks, it tends to rain. so i take my flip-flops off and skip in it. :)
 

Synobun

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Only when I need to get somewhere as dry as I can be, and it's not that far away.

Other than that, I just walk. The rain is cool.
 

Lozzy_Ozzy

Rapture
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Aug 23, 2004
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Northampton, England
I vaugully recall reading somewhere that you get wetter running than you do walking.

I've never believed that one.
Think about it, you've got a hundred metres to cross.
Sprint and you'll be pretty dry, but if you walk at you're normal speed you'd get drenched.
I reckon its just lazy people propaganda ;).
Saying that, I never run in the rain anyway.
 

Kozmos

Jew Detective
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Jun 21, 2004
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Sitka District
I embrace it's cold refreshing touch. Unless I'm out drinking. Then it's just plain annoying.
 

StarWorms

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England
Unless it's absolutely pissing it down, no.
 

Irish Caesar

Yellow Jacket
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Atlanta, former CSA
No, but I generally keep my head down and look entirely miserable.

Which is generally not all that untrue--I greatly dislike rain.
 

puglover

Disturber of Worldviews
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Kansas
No. A power walk in the rain makes you look completely awesome.
 

woody60707

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Chicago, IL
I vaugully recall reading somewhere that you get wetter running than you do walking.

mythbusters said that. But next season they revisited and found out they did the study wrong. So mythbusted, running is better.
 
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