Why do we scurry through rain as though getting wet is going to hurt us or something?

No one wants to sit with wet clothes or hair for the rest of the day. And it makes my naturally curly hair stick straight. (Ok, I lie. My hair is stick straight.)

I live in Oregon (lots of rain) and my only problem with the rain is wet socks and glasses. Glasses are easy to fix and so are socks(I carry spares).

I will say that one of my great loves is when you get so wet you don’t care anymore because you can’t get wetter. That giddy excitement of “fuck it” and you just start jumping in puddles or riding your bike through things you would normally avoid.

I agree that it is the idea of sitting around in soggy clothing and dripping on anything you dare to approach that puts you in mind of avoiding the rain.

Water is a coolant, and staying wet for too long, leads to hypothermia.

@ragingloli I guess my mom should have thought of that before she sent us off to the pool for hours and hours every single day during the summer.

I can understand not wanting to mess up hairdos, but wet clothes dry quickly, aided by body heat.

@Dutchess_III
Clothes do not dry in the rain.

When I worded the question I assumed that people “scurry through” to get some where, into a building what ever. If you’re just walking around in the rain, no, of course you’re not going to get dry. But I doubt you’d get hypothermia if it was summer.

IN my case it’s because my glasses get wet and then I can’t see where I’m walking.

I basically consider being cold to be a form of pain. It’s an unpleasant sensation.

Yeah, I used to hate opening the dishwasher when it’s hot for the same reason @elbanditoroso.

When I live in Florida we played in the rain, as long as there was no lightning. It was like taking a warm shower.

I scurry through cold, heavy rain because it’s unpleasant. The sensation is very different than that of a gentle rain shower on a summer day. Just like anything uncomfortable, I try to be done with chilly rain-drenching as soon as possible.

It is nice to be in a warm, cozy place when it’s down pouring.

@Mariah :: Move to Oregon. 50º and pouring at this very second. It is t-shirt weather and lovely. It never gets Boston cold here. I only close my windows for about 10 days out of the year.

And I am 6” and 135 pounds.. Some would say a Slender Man…

50 degrees is freaking COLD!!! You northwesterner freak me out. You guys put on T shirts and carry on about how warm it is, and I’m shivering in a sweatshirt.

My mom would agree. She was just at my apartment and was wondering why I have all my windows open. She was freezing and I refused to turn on the heat. I did close the windows for her which were opened once she left.

I think I just adapt well to temperature changes. Two months ago it was 100º. So when it become 70 I was cold. I have drifted into where 30º is warm enough I sleep with my windows open.

25º on Tuesday.. Might be closing windows then.

If I am going somewhere that I will have to sit in wet clothes or where appearances matter, I try to stay away from the rain. If there is absolutely no way to avoid it, then to heck with it…I don’t melt in the rain.

There is some sense in the adage “he lacks the sense to come in out of the rain”.

In my area I often welcome rain as an escape from this oven. 95 freaking degrees today, Nov. 2. “Raindrops keep falling on my head, but that don’t mean my eyes will soon be turning red”....