An open letter.

[rivka]

Dear vehicular traffic,

If you are driving along a downtown street with heavy foot traffic, and it is raining hard, and there are massive puddles in the gutters, there is no law that says you must slow down to avoid throwing sheets of icy water up onto pedestrians.

However, if you don't do so? Then you are an asshole.

Sincerely,

Woman who is soaking wet up to the thighs despite carrying a golf umbrella.

Comments

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

My most memorable such incident is being completely soaked by a car driving through a puddle under the bridge I was walking under, and as I opened my mouth to curse my bad luck, a lorry followed it and I swallowed a mouthful of the muddy water it re-covered me with.

[naomikritzer]

Word.

This used to happen to me on my way to school. Assholes.

[ailbhe]

Totally. As for doing it deliberately. Hmph. Damn lucky my baby's buggy had a raincover.

Though perhaps I ought to be grateful that the cheap jeans I bought that day are still going strong.