Day 15: Sledding to Work

Day15

by Zack Eustis

A fresh weekend snowfall paved the way for my long anticipated horseless sleigh ride to work this morning. My apartment is in an old house on top of a hill overlooking the school. My backyard is a hill covered in wiry old trees and bushes with a staircase in the middle. The staircase leads down the hill and almost directly into the street. My plan was to sled down this snow covered staircase, across the street, and onto school property. Unfortunately I was unable to keep parents from dropping off their kids this morning, and as that street is the drop off zone, I was S.O.L. Not wanting to waste a possible once in a lifetime chance to sled to my job, I instead chose to ride down a hill that goes from a perpendicular sidewalk to the school. The results have been caught by an amateur film maker and are available for viewing above or at this connecting link. After cruising merrily down the hill I proudly strolled through the halls of my school with my blue plastic sled getting curious looks from some students, and normal "good-mornings" from others. Perhaps I am not the first person that has sledded to their school before. One faculty member saw me and jokingly said, "I see you're getting to work in a new way today." How very, very right she was.