Alicorn comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 04 December 2012 04:02:10AM 2 points [-]

I wouldn't share an umbrella even with someone I'm perfectly comfortable intersecting space with. It's hard and awkward and you get rained on anyway.

Comment author: thomblake 07 December 2012 06:45:22PM 3 points [-]

Well the trick is, the offerer holds the umbrella over the recipient's head and gets wet.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 December 2012 12:08:18AM *  0 points [-]

It depends on how big the umbrella is. Some are large enough to cover two people without them even touching each other. (A pocket umbrella, on the other hand, I'd only share if the other person is someone I'm OK with hugging, or if it's raining so hard that getting wet would be even more uncomfortable.)