…failing to avoid puddles on the way to the gravel pit

Nope. Guilty.

on the way to the gravel pit

those bodies don’t dispose of themselves, do they…

Are you in the Wu-Tang Clan?

I aim for puddles on the lanes around here, too!

Brings this to mind.

Firstly, it is usually easier to write a double negative than it is to interpret it.
Secondly, unless the description of an event which is considered to be not without consequence includes a double or higher-order negative, then it cannot be disproven that the writer has neglected to eliminate other interpretations of the event which are not satisfactory in light of other possibly not unrelated events which might not have occurred at all.

Firstly, it is usually easier to write a double negative than it is to interpret it.

Hangs head in shame.