# Why do we always cover our heads when it rains ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-always-cover-our-heads-when-it-rains/2376>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 6, 1999, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-always-cover-our-heads-when-it-rains/2376 "1999-08-06T06:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 1999, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-always-cover-our-heads-when-it-rains/2376/21 "1999-08-09T02:32:00Z")

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babar , fish don’t usually stick there heads out of the water to see the pretty lights. I was hit by lightening when I was 10, right in the big toe.  
Dang conman where we gonna send our fish to learn to swim? hasn’t rained here in 29 days.And that was a 15 min sprinkle.

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