‘If you don’t want to get splashed with water, you should wear a raincoat’

Here is the opinion of Mrs. Nguyen Kim Thoa, who lives in Hanoi, about riding a motorcycle to avoid water splashes in bad weather or road conditions:

When I read the post ‘don’t expect splatter when you go out on a wet road’, I didn’t quite agree.

Because when you are on the road, you have to look at each other and choose the right way to go. If you are tough, others are tough too. If people can walk without splashing water on others, so can you. To know only one’s work in life is selfishness.

But there is another possibly related aspect that I can see from this reader’s post. It is impossible to expect others to be “polite”.

So, we should be prepared for all possible situations including water splashing on the road.

Everyone knows that motorbikes don’t have any barrier to protect us from sun, rain, dirt, mud.

Everyone knows how to prepare their own raincoat for rainy days. The problem is that even when the rain stops, the roads are very dirty.

Vehicles participating in traffic usually have fenders. But as far as you can be sure, you still need to see how high or low the car is, how the fenders are located.

For example, the car in front is a motorcycle. Such vehicles are usually very high, or even absent. Therefore, the chances of mud flying off the rear wheel and falling on the rear motorcyclist are very high.

Even in conventional motorcycles, fenders are often only partially enclosed.

So, no matter how careful I walk, how hard I try to keep my distance (which is often quite difficult in Vietnam due to urban traffic problems), I always see some splatter on my shirt Let’s give

Even when I was lucky enough to have people around me moving very politely, I still got a small smudge or two of mud.

After all this time, I always carry a paper raincoat. If not, a “protective” shirt such as sunscreen, an old thin coat, for example. As long as there is water on the road surface, I wear it.

Thankfully I use a scooter, so getting mud on my pants didn’t bother me much. But when I was driving a digital car, I definitely had to carry a plastic bag, the more “luxury” bought a rain shoe cover to protect my shoes.

Then, when I arrive, I don’t have to worry about my clothes, especially when going to work, which is very inconvenient to get ready.