thursday

A fat man in loafers attempting to reach a gypsy cab. In his path was what amounts to Mount Everest in NYC: the junk laden snow pile between the sidewalk and the street. The place where the snow plows and sidewalk shovelers' refuse collides with one another to form a turgid impassible booby trap. The fat man girlishly scrambled up and down the block (nearly on tip toes) looking for safe passage... finding none. Finally he poked, prodded and stepped out with abandon...

After a moment of wriggling he extracted his leg, revealing the giant underground lake his loafer had just discovered. He looked like he might cry as he scanned the block, searching for another route.