The roar of cars was dampened by a delicious rush of running water carried by a joob, one of the deep gutters that line every Tehran street.
In earth's deepest gutter, we are, in effect, looking at the stars.
The joubs — deep roadside gutters for the runoff from the Alborz Mountains, to the north — are murky and littered.
"I grew up deep in the gutter / Raised by wolves, church steeples, and a single white mother," he says on "To Whom It May Concern".
On one of those outings, Janvier Hadi — one of the team's newest members — lost control in a patch of gravel and veered off the road, flipping through the air, slamming into a stone retaining wall, and dropping into a four-foot-deep concrete storm gutter.
Suede stilettos and gutter-deep rivers of rain are an unhappy mix.
Sargent told his cousin that his earliest memory was of a deep red cobblestone in a gutter in Florence that obsessed him.
A heavy cloud of smoke hung over the city, and Canal Street was ankle-deep in molasses that had been dumped in the gutter.
"My tracks have a real deep 808 kick drive to it," he continued, "the drum pattern might be gutter and hard, but the music is so friendly".
He is paid £300,000-349,000 a year to fix guttering and and help sick kids, and in doing so scratch a deep, spiritual itch within our nation's volksgeist.
