The roads in the spring are quite bad.  There are hundreds of potholes all over the city, but you grow to expect that.  What I wasn’t prepared for was a pothole at work, in the actual building.  I guess somebody dropped something heavy on the floor in the basement, right outside the elevator.  It’s a concrete floor with this sort of shellac coating and it cracked the shellac and some of the concrete.  As the week wore on, the hole got bigger as more shellac broke off and the concrete gave way.  The thing that’s really odd, though, is that they fixed it with bright red duct tape!!