For the next six months, anyone comfortable on wheels can join (or watch) the Central Park Dance Skaters twirling, grapevining and displaying ankle bone-defying footwork around a 150ft stretch of dead-end road that serves as the makeshift rink.
He was stuck, not in a dead-end job but on the back road going 45 mph while many of his peers zoomed along the expressway in excess of 80 mph, and even faster for those who had learned to exceed the speed limit with impunity.