Yeah, it's not funny

[MoonCat]

There's a special place in hell for those people who deliberatley swerve through puddles so they can soak people walking by on the sidewalk. I picture it as a deep pit full of fire, with a huge puddle surrounding it, and people driving by....who deliberately AVOID splashing them

Around here, it's the assholes driving school buses who are most likely to do this. Don't know why. Apparently they hire a lot of assholes.

[vikingchyk]

There's a special place in hell for those people who deliberatley swerve through puddles so they can soak people walking by on the sidewalk. I picture it as a deep pit full of fire, with a huge puddle surrounding it, and people driving by....who deliberately AVOID splashing them

sounds good to me, since I ended up soaking wet by one of those jerks once.

Put them next door to the guy who hit me with a hubcap. OK, the guy was coming around a curve downhill. My coworker and I were walking up to an overflow parking lot to our cars. As he rounded the curve, his huge MF hubcap came off his POS Caddy, and sped down the hill, across two lanes of traffic, jumped the curb, and hit me in the shin so hard, I thought my leg had been broken. What made this guy an asshole:
1. he didn't stop to see if I was OK
2. when my coworker drove back past the scene about 15 minutes later, after helping me limp up to my car, the asshole was there, retrieving his hubcap. Considering how long it took me to limp to my car, he must have been waiting up the street for me to clear the area

Mean people suck

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Man. Rain.
Granted, this past April through June was really wet... but where I live it's a semi-arid desert. We have trees and green stuff in MyTown (those in actual cities would scoff at the appellation being applied to MyTown) because of irrigation.
Umbrellas are usually not there to be employed. It frequently only sprinkles, and if it does rain for more than 15 minutes, for more than a sprinkling... then it's cause to gawk.
Rarer still is the all-day rain. I love all-day rain... I need to move to England or to a coast or something.

[Geek King]

Rarer still is the all-day rain. I love all-day rain... I need to move to England or to a coast or something.

Come up to Ohio. The all-day rain is frequently in season. Even in this heat wave, we get vicious little storms pop-up suddenly due to the high humidity. Just the other day, I was no more than fifteen feet out my front door when the heavens dropped so much rain on me, I felt like the coach of a winning NFL game. Zero to squishy sneakers in two seconds. I was almost dry by the time I got home hours later.

Weather is fuuuun.

[Food Lady]

Weather is fuuuun

That's what I love about the desert: it's consistent--consistently hot, consistently dry. Of course there is El Nino-rain-for-a-week-and-flood, but that's only every few years.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I've had 2 days of (nearly) constant rain (currently stopped), more planned for the rest of the week.

Send some up here . . . we're hot and drier than the Sahara right now.

[EricKei]

Come up to Ohio. The all-day rain is frequently in season. Even in this heat wave, we get vicious little storms pop-up suddenly due to the high humidity.

Welcome to what growing up in New Awwwlins was like 6-7 months out of the year (aka Summer) ^_^

Send some up here . . . we're hot and drier than the Sahara right now.

Be glad to *wrings out his shirt, his car, and pretty much everything else* -- That does remind me, tho, we were in (what felt like) total drought conditions for a long time after Katrina -- I wanna say 10 months or better. Monsoon rains followed by nearly zero precipitation of any kind for almost a year isn't as fun as it sounds ~_~ Partially because there was nothing to wash away the toxic chemicals that were killing off plant life due to damage to chem/oil plants, factories, et al...Something like 90% of all foliage croaked, completely fooking up the climate for several years -- it's just recently gotten back to the standard "30% chance of rain every day in any given part of the city"...Note that the drought did NOT do anything to get rid of our year-round 85-95% humidity, unfortunately.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Wow... glad things are more normal in N.O.! >_>

[EricKei]

Wow... glad things are more normal in N.O.! >_>

Well, as close as we ever get to "normal" here. We're an odd bunch.

I have been of the opinion that we should have seceded (from the US and the State of LA) a long time ago >_> ...The scary thing is, I don't think anyone would try to stop us if we did

[bainsidhe]

Umbrella? *looks down at soggy self* I'm just a little hot and sweaty, that's all.

[Food Lady]

Well, as close as we ever get to "normal" here. We're an odd bunch. I have been of the opinion that we should have seceded (from the US and the State of LA) a long time ago >_> ...The scary thing is, I don't think anyone would try to stop us if we did

Hee! You're probably right!