22 June 2011

The umbrella industry in Shanghai

Coming here from Sweden I am definitely used to the rain and wind. And I am used to rain and windproof jackets. It is almost a fashion in Sweden :)

Here in Shanghai you do not have it... What you have here instead is umbrellas... When it rains everybody have one... If you are in a shopping mall and it starts raining, do not worry, there are many people selling umbrellas just outside the mall...
If you already have one and you enter any shop with a really wet umbrella... again, do not worry that you will make a floor wet or shopping will get uncomfortable because of water dropping from your umbrella... at the entrance of every shop, bank or other institution you will meet people handing out plastic bags for your wet umbrella or you simply place it in a wrapping machine... There is no way you can be found guilty for making any place dirty or wet :)

When it gets sunny, everybody takes out umbrellas again to hide from the sun :)

Now I have to get one as well, maybe I will fit in a little bit better :)

2 comments:

adadi said...

yeah.... seems like we need to verify our vacation plans;)

White Eagle said...

No, no! When you come here, the only thing you will need is flop-flopps and swimming suit :)