A SOAKING ENCOUNTER

Last winter, during an extremely rainy day, as I was walking down a main road with three friends we faced the soaking power of an urban wave. Huge puddles of rainwater covered the sides of the road and a high brick wall delimited the extremely narrow walkway, in which we were walking. We weren’t paying much attention to the traffic until we all realized that it was far too late.

A gigantic lorry was speeding down the road; we all knew what was about to happen. Time froze as the first wheel of the lorry reached the puddle in front of us; some of us jumped high in the air, completely useless. An enormous wave caught us all up between the wall and the splashing water that spun furiously from the lorry. The result?

We were dripping wet, completely showered and in complete shock. From this time onwards every time we walk along that road we usually cross the road and keep on walking on the other walkway. However, even though we all ended up with a cold that week, we still remember with laughter our desperation faces about to be lashed by the freezing urban wave.