Most people I know use umbrellas in downpours.

Not me.

I always say I won’t melt and shrug off the fact that I will inevitably look half-drowned after choosing not to use an umbrella; but the truth is I really can’t be bothered with the trouble (which of course is really no trouble at all) of using one (although there’s a quite large pretty black umbrella in my car at all times). I must be some kind of umbrella-phobe. Weird, right?

Now heat is another story. Coupled with high humidity, when temps over 85 hit me I actually do melt.…