But it's not long before my faith is restored by meeting Frankie, an artist in a pink headscarf who is opening umbrellas in her café garden.
Whenever it's raining, Diallo is the busiest person at the top of the subway stairs, taking cash, making change and opening umbrellas over his customers' heads.
They must be breaking mirrors, opening umbrellas and walking under ladders over at RIM because this is starting to get unbelievable.
When opening umbrellas, keep away from breakables, animals, and other people.
It begins with just one bright yellow opened umbrella, seen from above and surrounded by a sea of soft grays.
As the sun pounded voters, they gulped water, ate pizza, unfolded chairs and opened umbrellas, courtesy of the Obama campaign.
They stood on Shafer's lawn in groups of two and three, and, when a light rain began, they opened umbrellas.
In addition, all five of the free-standing portraits of René Magritte have raised and opened umbrellas, which add height.
Yet the two men essentially missed, failed to engage, the broad opened umbrellas merely grazing in a rubbery wet shudder as they passed.
So are the plastic fishing-boat chairs, the opened umbrellas, and the full-length mirrors in cardboard armoires that rest on dollies.
