Relatedly, at some point as a teenager I realized that being exposed to rain is actually usually not that terrible, and I had just kind of been accidentally conditioned to dislike it because it’s a normal thing to dislike and I never met anyone who appeared to enjoy the experience. But turns out, once you stop actively maintaining that resistance and welcome the rain, it can be pretty nice to walk around in rain while everyone around you tries to escape it. (Some exceptions apply, of course)
On my latest occasions where I got into very heavy rain and became all soaked, the situation really is unpleasant, but you can still take it with light humor, thinking to yourself “haha, that sucks”, similar perhaps to how you would laugh at the pain in an “who can eat the hottest pepper” challenge between friends. Or thinking “yes it sucks, but it isn’t actually that bad”.
Agreed, that’s one of the exceptions I was thinking of—if you’re getting soaked and have no way to get into dry clothes anytime soon, there’s little way around finding that rather unpleasant. But I’d say 95% of my rain encounters are way less severe than that, and in these cases, my (previous) attitude towards the rain really was the main issue about the whole situation.
fwiw I also enjoy the rain, and I guess I just never cared enough about people thinking it was weird. I do have to admit that when it’s raining especially heavily, it does suck a lot (the experience of fully wet clothing is very unpleasant in many ways). but most of the time it’s not raining that hard / I’m not going to be in the rain that long.
I’m not sure what you’re hinting at, but in 99.9% of cases when I’m out of the house, I do carry a smartphone around. If you mean that it’s annoying when the display gets confused by water, then I agree that’s a real disadvantage (but I doubt people’s attitude towards being exposed to rain changed that much between 2006 and today, so there certainly is some severe general dislike of rain independent from smartphones). If this is not what you mean, then please elaborate. :)
Sorry if that was weirdly obscure. I was asking because the principal reason I go out of my way to avoid rain is that I’m worried my phone would get wet and potentially die (and I’ve been somewhat sad about having to forego the experience of braving the rain at points). But it’s possible that this is not a big issue with current devices (and maybe never was)!
it is definitely not a problem with current devices. my phone has gotten quite wet hundreds of times and still works perfectly fine. note that this is different from survivability fully submerged; my guess is your phone could probably survive being submerged for a few minutes in a pool or something but if you left it there for a day it would be dead.
Relatedly, at some point as a teenager I realized that being exposed to rain is actually usually not that terrible, and I had just kind of been accidentally conditioned to dislike it because it’s a normal thing to dislike and I never met anyone who appeared to enjoy the experience. But turns out, once you stop actively maintaining that resistance and welcome the rain, it can be pretty nice to walk around in rain while everyone around you tries to escape it. (Some exceptions apply, of course)
On my latest occasions where I got into very heavy rain and became all soaked, the situation really is unpleasant, but you can still take it with light humor, thinking to yourself “haha, that sucks”, similar perhaps to how you would laugh at the pain in an “who can eat the hottest pepper” challenge between friends. Or thinking “yes it sucks, but it isn’t actually that bad”.
Agreed, that’s one of the exceptions I was thinking of—if you’re getting soaked and have no way to get into dry clothes anytime soon, there’s little way around finding that rather unpleasant. But I’d say 95% of my rain encounters are way less severe than that, and in these cases, my (previous) attitude towards the rain really was the main issue about the whole situation.
fwiw I also enjoy the rain, and I guess I just never cared enough about people thinking it was weird. I do have to admit that when it’s raining especially heavily, it does suck a lot (the experience of fully wet clothing is very unpleasant in many ways). but most of the time it’s not raining that hard / I’m not going to be in the rain that long.
Do you carry a smartphone with you in those occasions?
I’m not sure what you’re hinting at, but in 99.9% of cases when I’m out of the house, I do carry a smartphone around. If you mean that it’s annoying when the display gets confused by water, then I agree that’s a real disadvantage (but I doubt people’s attitude towards being exposed to rain changed that much between 2006 and today, so there certainly is some severe general dislike of rain independent from smartphones). If this is not what you mean, then please elaborate. :)
Sorry if that was weirdly obscure. I was asking because the principal reason I go out of my way to avoid rain is that I’m worried my phone would get wet and potentially die (and I’ve been somewhat sad about having to forego the experience of braving the rain at points). But it’s possible that this is not a big issue with current devices (and maybe never was)!
it is definitely not a problem with current devices. my phone has gotten quite wet hundreds of times and still works perfectly fine. note that this is different from survivability fully submerged; my guess is your phone could probably survive being submerged for a few minutes in a pool or something but if you left it there for a day it would be dead.