The most awesome thing that I personally own is this one particular umbrella that I purchased a few months ago. What makes it so awesome, you may ask? Well, it MIGHT have something to do with the fact that the handle of the umbrella is shaped like a friggin' KATANA HANDLE. If that's not enough, it even comes with its own sheath that can go across your back like an actual sword! Cool, huh?
Y'see, this umbrella's not only awesome, it's practical as well. When it's not raining, it just goes back into the sheath and Bam! Both my hands are free to do other stuff, instead of having to carry it around everywhere. However, the thing that could be considered both the best and worst part about it is this: To the uninformed, it looks like a real sword. Whenever I walk around town with it on my back, I get quite a few interesting looks, to say the least. On more than one occasion, people have asked me if that's a real sword on my back... to which I face them, close my eyes and draw it out of the sheath. While they're recoiling, I say to them matter-of-factly "It's an umbrella". It never fails to get a laugh out of the other guy.
The reason why I say that's both the best AND worst part about it, though, is that more often than once, I've had to explain to security people that it's just an umbrella. I never really get in a lot of trouble for it after I explain, but still; getting pulled over by security is never a good thing. Oh yeah, and there was this one time where, after taking it to the train station, one guy supposedly saw me and CALLED THE POLICE. I know this because I ended up getting surrounded by quite a few police officers, as I explained everything to them. I didn't get in any trouble (thank God), but I ended up having to carry around the umbrella by hand for the rest of the trip, to avoid scaring more people.
On the plus side, the police officers had declared my umbrella the coolest thing ever. It was actually kinda interesting to see how fascinated they were by it. One of them asked me where I bought it, so that he could get one of his own. Wow. Then again, that shop that sold them hasn't had any of them in stock for a while now. I wonder if that's a coincidence.
Anyways, that's the most awesome thing I own. Think you can top that?
Y'see, this umbrella's not only awesome, it's practical as well. When it's not raining, it just goes back into the sheath and Bam! Both my hands are free to do other stuff, instead of having to carry it around everywhere. However, the thing that could be considered both the best and worst part about it is this: To the uninformed, it looks like a real sword. Whenever I walk around town with it on my back, I get quite a few interesting looks, to say the least. On more than one occasion, people have asked me if that's a real sword on my back... to which I face them, close my eyes and draw it out of the sheath. While they're recoiling, I say to them matter-of-factly "It's an umbrella". It never fails to get a laugh out of the other guy.
The reason why I say that's both the best AND worst part about it, though, is that more often than once, I've had to explain to security people that it's just an umbrella. I never really get in a lot of trouble for it after I explain, but still; getting pulled over by security is never a good thing. Oh yeah, and there was this one time where, after taking it to the train station, one guy supposedly saw me and CALLED THE POLICE. I know this because I ended up getting surrounded by quite a few police officers, as I explained everything to them. I didn't get in any trouble (thank God), but I ended up having to carry around the umbrella by hand for the rest of the trip, to avoid scaring more people.
On the plus side, the police officers had declared my umbrella the coolest thing ever. It was actually kinda interesting to see how fascinated they were by it. One of them asked me where I bought it, so that he could get one of his own. Wow. Then again, that shop that sold them hasn't had any of them in stock for a while now. I wonder if that's a coincidence.
Anyways, that's the most awesome thing I own. Think you can top that?
