Important Berkeley Pro-Tip For Children

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.