Digging Out, the Mysterious Path, and a New Friend

In the wake of another large snowstorm, it became necessary for those of us with vehicles to somehow remove them from Lot 17. This mass movement was prompted by an extremely urgent email from Campo - using nine exclamation points, total - expressing how much they needed us to put our cars in any other possible lot. So, this fateful night, we journey to 17 amidst hordes of other students, and - not surprisingly - struggled to find our cars. Finally, we gave up on Megan and Julia’s cars, and searched exclusively for Big Red. As it began to grow dark, we found ourselves utterly and completely lost. Our toes growing cold, we finally came across what looked like the entrance to a carefully hidden path. It appeared to be guarded by some sort of shrunken head.

Intrigued, we obviously decided to follow the path. We walked for hours, and around midnight we came upon what looked like some sort of homeless man’s temporary winter shelter. Faintly, we could hear the sounds of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Specifically, the song Lady Stardust. Thinking we probably find a drunk homeless man inside, we decided to enter the little lair. Unfortunately, we were greeted by a somewhat ornery Yeti, who promptly attacked Lindsay.

She immediately sprang backwards, screaming “what the hell?!” as someone with a British accent began apologizing profusely. We soon realized, this voice belonged to the Yeti. We got to chatting, and he explained that he was quite unaccustomed to visitors, and had simply been startled by our sudden appearance. He quickly got Lindsay an ice pack from his small refrigerator, and invited us to sit down on his leopard-print sofa for a drink.

While Suffragette City played in the background, the Yeti explained to us how he had come to be in Massachusetts, relatively close to Stonehill College. The story is long and involved, quite complicated, and therefore we will not share it with you now. All you really need to know, is that Customs is not as secure as you would think. We soon learned the Yeti was far cooler than we had assumed, and after Labyrinth, a game of Twister, and three bottles of wine, the Yeti walked us back to Lot 17 and after helping us locate Big Red, single-handedly pulled it out of the snow. We exchanged phone numbers and a tearful goodbye. Caitlin was particularly broken up about it.

Then, we all piled into Big Red, and Caitlyn attempted to turn on the radio, but accidentally broke the knob off, landing on a random station that none of us recognized. Ironically, it was playing Under Pressure, that song by David Bowie and that guy from Queen. We chuckled over the coincidence as we pulled into Duffy Lot. Just as Caitlyn was turning off the car, the song ended, and the DJ said, “you’d be surprised how much those big, reclusive guys like David Bowie.”

But no one heard it, and no one cared.

Just another day at Stonehill!

[group picture to come!]