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Yes, it's much better to have your raincoat along and not need it than to need it and not have it.
"Good thing you wore your raincoat,,,,"
"Yeah, otherwise it would have rained."

Well, what if she was wearing something like this

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vinyl-Tank-TopSize- ... 6262wt_918

under her cagoule?

The thing that really fascinates me about these "how I got started" stories is the apparent randomness of them.

For instance your experience, evad, of wearing one of those plastic kid halloween costumes is one that has to have been shared by a lot of little boys and girls given how many of those ...

A shower assistant in an old folks' home....

I sweat a lot through my head, and it is normal for me to feel moisture on the inside of my hood very soon after starting a walk in the rain with the hood up. I suppose a hood would have to leak immediately and badly for me to notice the leak.

I would draw a distinction between the kind of grunge one encounters in mud puddles outdoors and the kind that accumulates on raingear when it's used in a chemical plant or on board Navy ships and submarines. The one is nice clean dirt (if that doesn't sound like an oxymoron) and the other could be ...

Your mention of acid suits reminds me of the time I worked at a chemical plant - among other things they dealt in tank-car loads of sulfuric acid. One guy unloading a tank car got sprayed pretty thoroughly with 93% sulfuric acid on a day when he was only wearing acid-proof overalls and a face shield ...

Now and then I see photos of baseball players who appear to be wearing sauna suit tops.

They sent around a message early in August that they would be closing on Sept. 6. Reading between the lines, it seems as though it may reopen sometime later in the year in some form. The message also said that the website galleries would stay open for a time.

I'm Pete, from western Washington.