Important Berkeley Pro-Tip For Children

[funranium]

If you see a puddle and it is not actively, at that very moment, raining...DO NOT SPLASH IN IT.  Odds are on favor that it is not actually water and is, instead, urine.

Staring at the moist stairs of the parking garage waiting for Araina, I thought back to my childhood of full double foot leaping into puddles as I ambled around town in the winter/early spring.  I then shuddered thinking of doing the same in Berkeley and how traumatizing that might have been.

Here endeth the pro-tip.

Comments

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

Oh, eewwww!!

Plus, what is a puddle of urine doing outside the toilets? And do I really want to know?

[blark.livejournal.com]

In Berkeley anything can be the toilet, thanks to the magical homeless people that abound there.

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. Poor bastards.

[graymalkn.livejournal.com]

Not just homeless people but students. My former boss lives just off of Shattuck and says that the first week of school is an especially odoriferous time in the alley next to her place.

[funranium.livejournal.com]

One may expect the general health and diet of the students to be somewhat better. While fragrant, it wouldn't have quite the same territory marking quality that Screaming Lady's got.