Each shirt has a sweat threshold after which you may as well take it off and walk around topless — sort of like the point at which a car sustains so much damage in an accident that it’s considered totaled. When I approached this threshold, I took increasingly desperate steps to prevent it. Sometimes I wo…
I was 3 blocks away from my hotel and decided to run for it. I was inundated within 10 seconds, and I wasn’t the only one. I stumbled through the entrance of my hotel and saw rain-soaked people everywhere, squeezing water out of their hair and examining their sodden clothes with disgust. Everyone looked like crap.