A bit of nostalgia…
The pic is from 12 years ago. This was MY parking place at Cubelandia.
It wasn’t like I had a nameplate or anything on my space. My dad had a nameplate “Jack Finlayson” at the Sault Ste. Siberia First National Bank. That was his spot when he was president or whatever. I think the nameplate is in the moomincabin nowadays.
I didn’t have any kind of nameplate. I was able to claim my personal parking place because it was the farthest away from the entrance to the building, like three rows away, and nobody else parked over in that row.
I worked over at Cubelandia for 12.5 years and I’ve been at TeleCubelandia for the last 4.5 years. I had an eight mile zen drive over to Cubelandia after I decided that taking the freeway every day was risking my life. Getting on to eastbound I94 at the Jackson Rd. hairpin turn entrance behind a gravel truck? Nope. Taking the slow route around the south side of town was blissful. Well, unless it was snowing but I have always been able to work from home and usually didn’t drive over to Cubelandia in the snow. As a non-essential worker, why put my vee-hicle on the road?
Cubelandia didn’t close totally because of covid. Cubelandia was always under utilized. Covid was just the tipping point. Why pay all that rent for a half-empty building?
G’night, KW
October 8th, 2024 at 8:46 pm
I had a very easy and low key commute (10 minutes at most over surface roads) for the 37 years of my teaching career. I didn’t get to school stressed out unless there was ice on the road.