inglorious mud

[jinian]

I wouldn't mind the construction going on outside work nearly as much if they didn't have this delusion that mud is preferable to dust. They have a tanker truck pootling along spraying water over everything, and I inevitably get stuck behind the damned thing. Dirt happens, but I have never had such muddied legs as I had today. My sandals are so evenly spattered that it looks intentional. When I bounced my bike before carrying it upstairs, thinking to knock some of the gunk off the tires, half a cup of mud splotted like wet cement onto the pavement below the pedals. More fell off when I put it down upstairs. I had to wash mud off the back of my neck, for fuck's sake, and not a little of it.

Someday, this will be over. But not any time soon.

Comments

[kalikanzara.livejournal.com]

Some street sweepers have problems picking up dust, but are okay with mud. Mind you, the new one my company just came out doesn't need water, it's got high-tech dust control. :)
Now, you just find the folks spraying everything, convince them they'd rather have a better sweeper and no muddy bikers, and maybe I can retire on the commissions.

(It's nice to work for a company that makes things, some days. I can point...it was hard to do that when I was doing software development.)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

But there aren't any sweepers! There's just a bunch of torn-up gravelly bits, so I don't think a sweeper would even work. All they do is make mud. They suck.