Two days later, on the way to his office, when he got up to leave the streetcar, he absentmindedly laid hold of the umbrella belonging to a woman beside him.
The women cried, "Stop, thief!" and rescued her umbrella, which covered the man with shame and confusion.
The same day, he stopped at the repair shop and received all eight of his umbrellas duly repaired.
As he entered a streetcar with the unwrapped umbrellas tucked under his arm, he was horrified to behold the lady of his morning adventure glaring at him.
Her voice came to him charged with withering scorn, "Huh! Had a good day, didn't you!"
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