don't all rush at once

I got my drop-off-fresh-clothes-for-next-week-at-work trip done nice and early today and could then spend half the afternoon suggesting places where Nicky might find the things she needs to make a variety of vaguely festive decorations and giftlets for a craft sale thing at her work next week and the other half walking wider afield in the increasing cold looking for bits for her birthday with mild success. Popped to the botanics as it's been a while and found them still surprisingly full considering the weather but also that the people in them were all moving surprisingly quickly with almost none of the nice frosty patterns on the wood of the seats of benches showing evidence of having been sat upon at any point during the day. Even though a few people were wearing what looked distinctly like salopettes or related insulated water-resistant cold-weather trousers such as Americans might term "snow-pants" which would have provided some protection from the terrors of sitting on a cold surface. I've seen such trousers on tourists before in the winter and always worry that they actually are real salopettes rather than just trousers which resemble them and that someone can feel it necessary to wear them in such relatively mild conditions as those found hereabouts. What happens to them when they go inside somewhere? It must be quite unpleasant.