This morning I had an epiphany!  If I ever need a new umbrella, all I have to do is wait for a rainy day and then drive around for a few minutes.  Every time I drive in the rain, I see at least one umbrella lying in the road!  I don’t know if it there because a smarty-pants kid threw it out of a car window (I have memories of my sister throwing one of my toys out of a moving car window and my parents refusing to stop or turn around even though it was a suburban quiet 25mph road!) or if it is there because the driver had his/her hands full when opening the car door to get into the car and put the umbrella on the roof of the car and then forgot it was there and drove off with the umbrella still on the roof, only to have the umbrella slide off after driving a short distance.  Whatever the reason, there are umbrellas in the road every time it rains!