wakewashed birdmad Rain is a rare occurrence here the street where i live gets a lot of heavy truck traffic and has not been re-paved or otherwise rebuilt in years and years, as a result, any sustained rainfall gathers in ankle deep washes between the centerline and either curb brackish and muddy with the rainbow slick surface of old oil and grease, it swirls and eddys with every passing car and truck i should have worn a trashbag over my coat ...big eighteen wheeler comes rolling through trying to beat the light and kicks up a grimy brown tsunami that even managed to get me while i hid behind the bus stop 041028 what's it to you? who go blather from