Strolling just beyond the northern border of Wallingford this weekend, I came across a man attempting to cross a frozen 250 foot span between two of the docks at the Green Lake Aqua Theater. He got about 30 feet out when his friend on the shore yelled, “What are you doing? Come back!” The man thought better of his traverse and returned to solid ground, though he defiantly declared, “I would have made it!”
As he walked past me I noticed he was well into his 50s, proving that the old adage “With age comes wisdom” is not necessarily universal.…