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In the middle of one of the snows we had this winter we had a few warm spells where a lot of the snow melted. These days were not so fun because often the water refroze rather quickly as ice. Well on this particular day the snow on the roofs had melted and the ice on the ground had not. Of course, I was waddling along in fear at a brain-numbingly slow pace when I come up to this one stretch of sidewalk. This stretch of cement was busted up and a low spot--so in the rain it became a lake. Of course this lake was frozen over so I had to skirt around it like everyone else. While grimacing and grumbling like always I saw the funniest thing I'd seen in a while. This woman was standing near the edge of ice patch holding on to a beam that supported the awning of a little shop. On one foot. Why you ask? She was holding her other foot up to clean it on the trickle of water coming from the roof. Now this was really a sight to see. First off you'd get more pressure and volume spitting vigorously but she was determined. Also this was a big lady, the fact that she was on one foot holding the other ballerina-pointed in the air was amazing and hilariously. She had a smudge of muddy slush on her 4 inch stiletto winter boots and she was not having it. She stood there turning her shoe this way and that trying to get it clean. And all I could think is that in about ten steps you're going to walk back through all the muddy slush and just get dirty again—that and how her immaculate dome of curly black hair was really a bad balance for her shoes. She looked like a leather clad bowling pin upside down. But that's people here for you. They will happily stop every 25 steps to bend down and clean their shoes. Even in the snow.