ABSTRACT
Dan is known for his scrambling to the ferry. But he is a strategic scrambler: he has everything planned. Merging onto the main road by 7:01am on a Monday is crucial, he says, as you need to get ahead of the school bus. The bus makes too many stops and you cannot pass it. Experience taught him: the school bus is headed to the ferry too and the ferry never leaves without the high school kids, but following it like a protective shield would not be a ticket to assured loading. The school bus has right of way: it skips the lineup and loads the ferry first. A driver following it would have to join the back of the lineup instead. That would not suffice on a Monday. Mondays are
busy as many people leave the island for the whole week. So, this is not a day to show up at 7:19. You need to get there by 7:15; 7:10 or even 7:00 if it was summer.
