Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
What may annoy you when commuting?
Hi fellow Bostonian, [MENTION=389176]Archwhorides[/MENTION],
When I read your post, I thought it sounded like a
haiku (a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world) and I fixed it for you:
Rainy night, rode through
Unseen deep water-filled hole.
Spine-wrenched, broke spoke. Damn! 
Not to sound like a “Monday Morning Cyclist," but I do feel your pain, since I had a similar event. I posted about it in 2010 on a now closed thread, and it prompted one of my Safety Aphorisms, even with an amendment:
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LOL , like what you did here. I follow the “puddle rule” religiously, except when drive lane is too tight with traffic and I have no space, should have avoided this unfamiliar stretch of McGrath, quite nasty.