Wasn't meant to be disturbing. I wonder had I titled this "Hold the Pickles, Hold the Lettuce, Special Orders Don't Upset Us," if it would have taken on a less ominous tone. This is a 20 second exposure at F:/32, ISO 100, in a steady drizzling rain on an asphalt roadway which accounts for the "thickness" appearance of the water. The sign you cannot make out is a lighted Burger King logo. To me it was not important to be absolutely clear as to what it was as much as how important it was to break the horizontal plane of the image.
Night shots in the rain are a dime a dozen, and when I went out, it was raining buckets. My original intent was to capture the traffic through the rain in a rather abstract image. So, it rains like this all day and when I get the camera set up, it wanes down to a steady drizzle... I didn't want to make a waste of the night, so I looked about until I found this shot which is different in that the detail on the asphalt held its own against the flow of water and the traffic light provided a nice color array.
As to hanging it in your house or mine, it is not a factor I would use to measure the success of the image, though it does print quite nicely.
