Through my experiences in life, I have never had a problem with umbrellas, or Asians for that matter. As a true believer of equality I never make accusations or stereotypical judgments of people without having fully researched a topic myself and collaborated with other sources.
It is with this judicious analytical process that I have come to the conclusion that Chinese people are no longer allowed to use umbrellas. I just came back from a weekend road trip to New York, and I was beaten and tattered after spending time in China-Town, during a rainstorm. Now, I do understand that the China-Town residents most likely mean no harm, and that it is not their fault for being, on average, shorter. However, if I get stabbed ONE MORE FUCKING TIME IN THE FUCKING NECK BY A GOD DAMN UMBRELLA, HEADS WILL ROLL. My friend and I were walking thru China-Town, drunk and stoned, at about 3:00pm when it started raining. We had no umbrella and enjoyed this fact, or rather, were too fucked up to care. However, every single China-Town resident had an umbrella and they were walking in droves at almost a full sprint. It wasn’t until the first umbrella spoke stabbed me in the neck that I felt lost and alone. With the unfamiliarity of big city unkindness I was surprised that my screams of “OWWW FUCK” and “I’M FUCKIN’ BLEEDING HERE” were not even the slightest bit acknowledged. It might have been because they don’t speak the language, or maybe that they just didn’t care, they knew I wasn’t one of them. Every bodega on the street had a guy trying to sell us an umbrella as we walked by, and I could feel the rage rising within their beaming eyes. Plodding along through the harrowing abyss it wasn’t until I spotted a mother with three kids, all holding umbrellas in a diamond formation, and heading directly towards me at full speed that I lost my mind. But it was too late. A huge slice across the neck and a jab to the eye caused me to fall to the ground, questioning god “WHY ME?”
An eye patch and ten stitch’s later we left the hospital and walked to the curb, exhausted and confused, we hailed a cab, and we felt that the nightmare was over…
NEXT WEEK: NY Cabbies and The English Language