@mike: both of those brought tears to my eyes
OK, might as well join in, this goes back to my high school days, when we lived in Geelong, (Australia). Across the road from where we live are a vast area of salt pans, Cheetham Saltworks, needless to say that the area is out of bounds to the public.
But being teenagers, who takes notice of "no trespassing" signs. So it's me, my brother, who's a year younger, and a mate of mine from school, who to say the least, was never one of the lucky ones. Here we are, we've been wandering around the place, avoiding the few staff we saw, for hours. It's beginning to get dark and we must be about a good hour and half from where we'd entered the place, and to top it off it starts to rain, so rather than head back the way we'd come, we decided to head straight back to a land mark we knew was close to our house, and it's raining harder. The area we've been walking along is about two to three feet wide, made from a clay like mud, with a steep slope down either side which is filled with water, and by now me and my brother are running as fast as possible and shouting at this other guy to keep up. And now it's raining even heavier, the kind of heavy where you have to squint to see where you are going. My brother is leading the way when,
...........and I'll finish when I get back from the doctors