From: wswears@gci.net   
      
   On 10/3/2014 9:56 PM, David Goldfarb wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Joy Beeson   wrote:   
   >> AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGH!   
   >>   
   >> You've made me realize that in one of my stories, a girl walks for two   
   >> weeks and never once gets rained on.   
   >   
   > If she was walking in California during the summer months, that   
   > wouldn't be at all unusual.   
   >   
   > I once wrote to an author about the exact opposite gaffe, in fact:   
   > I read Jane Lindskold's _Thirteen Orphans_, and as part of a sequence   
   > in which a boy and girl fall in love, Lindskold has him help her jump   
   > over a puddle.  In San Jose.  In June.   
   >   
   > (You'd be a good bit more likely to find a hundred-dollar bill in the   
   > streets of San Jose in June than a rain puddle.)   
   >   
   >> She also never crossed a stream, or got thirsty before she found one.   
   >   
   > In a Mediterranean climate in the dry season that would be a bit   
   > more of a concern.   
   >   
   Coming at that from another perspective, I've seen a lot of puddles in   
   big cities that have nothing at all to do with rain, and which might   
   cause an even higher degree of "I don't want to step in that."   
      
   Bill   
      
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