Sunglasses Sans Sun

What the hell happened to April showers bring May flowers? It’s the first of the month and thus far April showers seem to have brought nothing other than more May showers. WTFs? Me no likes.

Yes, yes. We all know I don’t very care much for NYC in the rain. Hard to believe that I hate sopping wet feet, frizzy hair, and drenched work clothes. However, there is there is one thing that really gets me going when it come to cloudy days. Aside, of course, from the fact that they seem to be here to stay.

I have today off (love my job!) so I was running errands all over the Village and SoHo. I was out the door early this morning, umbrella in hand. Throughout my downtown travels I counted 17 – seventeeeeeeen – people wearing sunglasses.

Really buddies? Really?

I don't get why some people feel the need to show off their shades when it's, well, shady. Not a sunbeam to be found in a sky full of rain and yet...and yet...they just HAVE to cover up in their Chanels.

Do they think they’re cool? Are they aspiring to be to be famous? Or at least insinuate that they are famous by hiding their (arguably faux, contact clad) baby blues? Come on peeps. I've seen Tom Brady in the Village on a rainy day and not even HE was wearing sunglasses - a really ugly sweatshirt, yes - that's what made me notice him after all - but no, he was sans sunnies.

It's positively blasphemous that people break out the ole dimmers when it's cloudy and rainy. Yes, yes, this is NYC - the Village at that - and people need to be all chic and alluring. But it's just so annoying that they strut around in their Ray-Bans when it's a-storming!

Wearing sunglasses sans sun is such oxymoron, ya morons! Can't you SEE that? Please, just put those precious shades away - save them for a sunny day.