On Brooklyn after days and days of rain

Early this week it started to rain in the middle of the night and it just didn't stop.

This morning I woke up and reacquainted myself with the sun. It was a joyful reunion, but there are signs of its absence all over BK.

First of all, I need to comment on an earlier posting about donuts. I've received many comments about those donuts and that picture. Yeah, they do look good. After taking Frank to the source, I was told that maybe that posting oversold those donuts a bit. Well, after today's damp morning and very dense donut, I have come to the conclusion that the awesomeness of apple cider donuts varies inversely with humidity. Yeah, that's right, I'm a math teacher studying for the MCAT, I pulled out an algebra term.

After enjoying my donut I parked myself and my study material at the park (ha!). Being the good Houston girl that I am, I chose a spot right above a big puddle. What Houstonian could forget the joys of standing water for a small child! To clarify, this puddle was bigger than my apartment and covered one of the primary walkways.

When I sat down there were several eight year olds playing in it. After a mom pointed out that one of the girls had a cut on her leg and that she was swimming in bacteria the resisted but quickly vacated.

This freed the pond up for the funniest thing I have seen all summer. A very small child riding a very small bike rode straight into the pond. I saw him at the top of the path and I thought, "Is he really going to do this?" Well, he did. This bike was about a foot and a half tall and the child was probably about three feet tall. He pedaled fast straight into the water. Instead of flying forward upon contact which seemed like a likely possibility, the kid rode right through until the bike was completely under water and half the kid was. But that didn't stop him. He kept riding until the water was up to his chest. Then he must have hit a rock because he was jerked forward and fell into the water sideways.

All this time a man had been walking down the path coming from the opposite direction. He had been looking at the screen of a digital camera and I thought that it was the kid's dad and he was filming. Well this dude just kept walking as the kid emerged from the water screaming and crying. The dude walked up to the kid, picked up the submerged bike and placed it on a rock and kept walking. I guess he wasn't the dad, which makes me feel a little better about parents today. Seriously, can you image just filming as your kid did something so dumb!

After a few minutes some other adult male showed up and took the kid's shirt off and tried to comfort him. I hope that was the dad. I guess you never know. The kid cried for some time. I laughed to myself. Whatever, that's how you learn that if you ride through a puddle that is taller than you you will get wet. We all learned it. I just never saw someone learn it in such a tangible way. You see people on tv drive their cars into to puddles and you think WTF. Hopefully, that kid learned his lesson and will stay off the weather channel.