"I'd seen her kicking it outside, dressed in a black business suit, leaning against a black town car, umbrella in hand, talking to two members from Los Angeles's most notorious gang, the L.A.P.D...
As if she had nothing better to do than wait for us all day, a woman wearing a simple dress and cardigan approached our car, umbrella in hand, and escorted my companion and me out of the rain and into the restaurant.
When the owner returns to the car, the umbrella can be closed and reinserted into the space, where it clicks into the proper storage position.
In the case of State Farm, for example, bundling a homeowner's, car, and umbrella liability policy can save you 18% on your car insurance premium.
Commuters in the thousands have forgotten cellphones, car keys, umbrellas, leather jackets and billfolds.
The panhandlers with their out-of-tune songs and tales of woe, the fractious harangues of born-again proselytizers, the deaf politely placing sign-language alphabet cards in your lap, the silent men who scuttle through the car selling umbrellas, tablecloths and cheap windup toys.
The network of networks becomes accessible through any physical object: from cars, to umbrellas, to potted plants.
On March 8 the Suzanne Geiss Company, a new gallery in SoHo, will open its inaugural show by suspending, as if in flight, two complete sets of works that Rammellzee called "letter racers," spacecraftlike sculptures representing the letters A to Z, built bricolage style from scraps of cast-off consumer goods like flip-flops, sunglasses, toy cars, cheap umbrellas, Bic pens and air-freshener tops.
The whole play was like that YouTube video where Britney goes after that car with her umbrella.
He stepped down to the bank and splashed across to the car with the umbrella over his head.
Others include pens that are not chained to a desk, debit cards that are issued on the same day an account is opened and employees who will walk a customer to the car with an umbrella if it rains.
