A question for all my fellow BYU grads

So you know that part of the HBLL (That's Harold B. Lee Library) on the south side where there is an overhang? When I first went to BYU, that was the entrance to the library, but very quickly after I started they closed it up and started the underground construction. Eventually, they turned that whole area into classrooms.

(Funny tangent story about that. One of the only times I went into that entrance was to meet up with my sister Sarah. And when I got there, she was being accosted by some crazy nut who heard that she was a dietetics major and wanted her to taste this new Powerbar knock off he was trying to produce. He was going on and on about how those "other" bars were full of preservatives but how his were great and MUCH BETTER because they were all natural and had lots of veggies and even parsley in it. And you could SEE the parsley big chunks in it. And he made her taste it right in front of him. Well, she finally got rid of him and as we were walking home, she had a part of a bar in a plastic baggie-cause he had forced her to take it with her, of course-and she was looking for the nearest trash can to throw it away. I asked her what it tasted like and she said, "It tasted like Parsley." Good HBLL memories)

Great story, Axel!

But anyway, on that MOST south side, there is an overhang and a walkway underneath. It's frequently used by students especially in the winter to get out of the snow. So with all the rain that's been falling here recently, this made me think about something and I wanted to pose a question to all of you.

If you are walking from, say the Wilk to the Kimball Tower, the most natural pathway is that "covered" walkway. And if you are walking from, say your freshman dorm Fox Hall (WHOO!! FOX HALL!!! FOXY LADIES!!!) you will have been carrying an umbrella and using it against the rain/snow for quite a while. There will be some drippage coming off the sides.

So here's my question: When you go under the overhang walkway, do you collapse your umbrella and then re-expand it 20 seconds later as you come back out from under the overhang? I mean, you are literally going to put it back up in 20 seconds after you come out from under the overhang. And if you do collapse it, how do you hold it so as to keep it from dripping on you, others and your shoes? All the while still keeping it close so that you can re-expand it quickly once you walk out again? Because if you don't do it fast enough, you are just the idiot who can't work your umbrella and you are standing in the rain and HOLDIN' UP THE LANE, DANG IT!!!

Or do you keep it up (cuase you know that you will just have to re-expand it in 20 seconds, right?) but then feel stupid because you are carrying an umbrella where there is no possibility of getting wet? Almost feeling like you are carrying an umbrella indoors. And you are trying to dodge people with your full umbrella and they are giving you crusty looks because you almost poked their eye out! And THEY didn't keep up their umbrella, and why don't you put that thing down!! It's not raining under here, idiot!

Or do you keep it expanded, but like put it down to the side so that you aren't looking idiotic protecting yourself from nothing, nor are you threatening others with the sharp pointy ends of your dagger like umbrella? But keeping it expanded so you can quickly put it back up above your head as soon as you walk out from under cover. But also keeping in mind that while still expanded on it's side there is the chance you will drip on someone or brush your super moist umbrella top on some unsuspecting student? Also know that if you put it to the side, you will be taking up more space in the always crowded passage. And people might get mad at you. And hit your umbrella on purpose, and ruin it. Or give you a crusty look when you touch them with it and get them all wet.

Or do you try to do all of these things at one time or another and then just give up and decide to take the path north of the Library? Cause this is just too much stress for a Freshman.