tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389669289904198220.post442692277262465456..comments2023-10-11T11:19:41.552-04:00Comments on Muse Swings: Why, I'm Just A Happy Go Lucky Rain or Shine Girl!MuseSwingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11999288873532715380noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389669289904198220.post-85379836749458284822008-07-26T07:08:00.000-04:002008-07-26T07:08:00.000-04:00Hi again and thanks for your kind welcome!In Austr...Hi again and thanks for your kind welcome!<BR/><BR/>In Australia 'Mickey Mouse' is kind of a slang term for anything that's more noise than action, or doesn;t match up with the claims it makes about itself. So it's absolutely appropriate that MM is on the front of your plastic poncho. If it rains hard it's the last thing you should wear - it would be only slightly less use as a bullet-proof vest than a raincoat. <BR/><BR/>Your fears about the candles in church melting all the rain bonnets reminded me of an incident I had forgotten for years. At my high school plastic rain hats were part of the school uniform (with a blue plastic or nylon raincoat) for the first three years, after that we were allowed to use umbrellas. Most of the other girls hated tham (which happens to anything you make compulsory for girls that age) and we all made a big bonfire of our rainhats last day of school. It stank to high Heaven and probably increased our chances of catching about 88 different types of cancer from the fumes and there were some serious questions asked about it, but it was still a hoot, seemed like a great idea at the time. <BR/><BR/>I was one of the few to keep one for 'just in case' after that and I was quite often asked for the loan of one. These days my daughter who is 16 says not many of her friends even use an umbrella these days, kids today think they're anal and boring. But she does, and seems to like using it, and even borrowed a rain hat from me a while ago. She's quite belligerently 'uncool' in a lot of ways but that still amazed me.Helena Handcarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16599346349529854983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389669289904198220.post-11437058711405968162008-07-21T00:38:00.000-04:002008-07-21T00:38:00.000-04:00Helena! Thank you for stopping by! It's good to k...Helena! Thank you for stopping by! It's good to know that at least one of us takes proper care of themselves. You reminded me that not only do I have one of those pathetic ugly plastic ponchos in the trunk of my car - it's got a picture of Mickey Mouse on it! I hope it never rains hard enough that I feel I have to wear it. Better I should melt.MuseSwingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11999288873532715380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389669289904198220.post-23363998376539384492008-07-20T10:40:00.000-04:002008-07-20T10:40:00.000-04:00Hi everybody, I'm 50 and I have worn those plastic...Hi everybody, I'm 50 and I have worn those plastic rain hats for as long as I can remember. Quite often even today I still wear one under an umbrella, and in sports crowds, where umbrellas are a nuisance, I always make sure I have a nylon raincoat and a rainhat with me and they keep me much drier than those pathetic ugly plastic ponchos you can buy on-site at huge expense.Helena Handcarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16599346349529854983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389669289904198220.post-76677701887544708042008-07-20T10:25:00.000-04:002008-07-20T10:25:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Helena Handcarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16599346349529854983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389669289904198220.post-81012409840634433152008-07-15T22:24:00.000-04:002008-07-15T22:24:00.000-04:00Lavinia, I had one of those contraptions as well....Lavinia, I had one of those contraptions as well. It was sooo inefficient! But you're right, my arms were free for the hour(s) it took to dry my hair.MuseSwingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11999288873532715380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389669289904198220.post-21178855906497640412008-07-15T21:38:00.000-04:002008-07-15T21:38:00.000-04:00Fun memories of the rain bonnet. I used to love t...Fun memories of the rain bonnet. I used to love them, and how they folded up into itty bitty things. I would find them in my spring coat pocket every....spring. Where they had been since the previous winter.<BR/><BR/>I also remember the 'pre-blowdryer' days when we had this contraption that was like a plastic hair net that you put over your head then a vacuum tube device blew hot air into it. It expanded and you looked like a cross between an alien and a mushroom. How I wish I still had it...at least your arms didn't get sore from blowdrying! You just sat there and it did all the work.<BR/><BR/>Those were the days...Laviniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08810442216887536113noreply@blogger.com