Today I was standing on the sidewalk by a moderately busy street; texting. In the middle of manually correcting a word that had been auto-uncorrected by my phone, I was hit by a rouge wave of freezing cold, muddy water: Chucks of ice and snow.

My first thought wasn’t, fuck, now I’m muddy, wet and cold.

My first thought was, fuck, people actually get hit by walls of water while standing next to a street? I thought you had to be in a sitcom for things like that to happen.