Good For You

I remember an old Oprah episode where the doctor vehemently denies the “old wives tale that getting rained on will make you sick.”  He was really really pissed off that people, including Oprah, keep on spreading the idea that “water” makes you sick.  

“It’s not the water that makes you sick, its bacteria, viruses … blah blah blah,” the doctor was exasperated.”What an idiot,” I thought.  After all, since when has our rain water carried just pure water???

With all the pollution in the air, some places worse than others, the raindrops that hit our heads is nothing to sneeze at (pardon the intentional pun, couldn’t help it).  For probably, I don’t know, 1/5 of the earth’s surface where rain falls, its acid rain.