Sidewalk-Rain Right of Way Rules by Josh Rosenbaum…

It seems simple enough but you’d be surprised how few people follow them.

Example: Its raining out, there is an awning or eve or some other non rain soaked part of the sidewalk. If two people should meet on said sidewalk, right of way goes like this:

Person with Umbrella gets out of the way (as in into the rain) for Person with a rain coat.
Raincoats get out of the way for people with a Coat with hood.
Coat with hood gets out of the way for person with coat without hood.
Coat without hood gets out of the way for person with Sweatshirt
Sweatshirt gets out of the person without a sweatshirt or less and at this point the distinctions become moot.
Now there are all the little discrepancies that I’m sure you’d bring up, for example….
What if a person with a sweatshirt with a newspaper runs across a person with nothing except a shirt, but an umbrella? Of course Newspaper trumps because that person had to pay money for the newspaper which will be ruined if it gets wet, whereas all other articles clothing on umbrella person can be washed and dried and restored to proper working order.

What if two people wearing sweatshirts arrive at an eve at the same time…
Then you say it was fate and whoever backs down gets wet. At that point call of the wild takes over and you get to see who’s dominant.

So there you go.

I must say that I agree with Josh’s logic. I cannot count the number of times I have been walking under the eves only to get pushed out into the rain by some stupid person with an unbrella who won’t yield right-of-way. I mean, they have an umbrella for Pete’s sake! So Josh, consider your message posted my friend! Comments or feedback? Email me and let your voice be heard!!!