D R O P P E D

I initially thought the woman was attempting to walk across a wet and slightly mucky stretch of pavement without getting her sparklingly-white trainers very slightly muddy though it soon became obvious that she and her colleague were looking for something on the pavement or in a puddle. Given the number of times I had to scuttle quickly to a safe bit of pavement when a passing car thought it might be fun to attempt to swerve into a puddle it's surprising they didn't find themselves leg-dampened whilst their attention was elsewhere, still on the puddle but not on its aspect as a secondary weapon of the motorist.