As you may or may not know, we live in Houston, Texas. South East Texas isn't particularly known for being dry, yet the city is equipped with a multi-million dollar sprinkler system which rears its ugly head on every single street. We're talking side roads, feeders, main streets, you name it. The sprinklers have automatic timers, apparently, and they're all set for different times, the majority of the times being during the middle of the day when the sun is blaring down. Now, I learned in second grade that it's stupid to water your lawn during the day, as a good portion of the water evaporates. Apparently, the people who set these timers didn't pay a hell of a lot of attention in second grade.

A majority of sprinklers themselves are broken, probably due to the multi-million dollar mowing system (pay laborers half wages to do more work). Most of them spray the water straight up, flooding one spot of grass, and leaving the rest dry, or, my personal favorite, they spray a steady stream of water into the street. I'm not really sure why this bothers me so much, but I assume it has to do with my hatred of driving in the rain. As soon as the roads get wet, people start braking like there's no tomorrow, there's skidding...ew. It's just ugly.

For the past week or so, there've been a series of pretty bad storms in the area. The streets were flooded at one point. Guess whether or not the sprinklers still came on, even IN the rain. Now, I don't profess to be completely environmentally aware and all that, but I'm pretty aware that grass doesn't need to be watered in the height of a giant rainstorm. Especially when the sprinklers are just pointing straight up, anyway.