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The Destroyer
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You know, the chalky yellow substance that clings to the sides of puddles on cement/dirt during the winter/spring. It's sort of a bright yellow/pastel, which can even border on neon-ish or greenish. Sometimes it even stays behind in a sort of outline of the puddle after the water has evaporated.
My ESTJ friend says it's pollen, which makes sense and was a likely explanation in my mind, but just because something is likely doesn't make it true! [Actually, I hadn't ever seen such puddles until I went to a school a few years ago which had lots of those dirt-rectangle things (to plant greenery in) that collect puddles more than they provide a pleasant learning atmostsphere. Must have been a high clay content. At any rate, I thought it might have been pesticide at the time. And now that I've seen this is lots of completely paved areas too, I suppose this explanation has lost credence.]
It's kind of weird if pollen is waterproof/floats on water. Then again, it has to be pretty light to fly upon the wind and everything, and probably has lots of surface area to stick to things (lots of surface area = doesn't break surface tension of the water?).
I love the springtime. (Even if we get so little of it here and I get allergies.)
My ESTJ friend says it's pollen, which makes sense and was a likely explanation in my mind, but just because something is likely doesn't make it true! [Actually, I hadn't ever seen such puddles until I went to a school a few years ago which had lots of those dirt-rectangle things (to plant greenery in) that collect puddles more than they provide a pleasant learning atmostsphere. Must have been a high clay content. At any rate, I thought it might have been pesticide at the time. And now that I've seen this is lots of completely paved areas too, I suppose this explanation has lost credence.]
It's kind of weird if pollen is waterproof/floats on water. Then again, it has to be pretty light to fly upon the wind and everything, and probably has lots of surface area to stick to things (lots of surface area = doesn't break surface tension of the water?).
I love the springtime. (Even if we get so little of it here and I get allergies.)
