The Tunnel of Scrub

On a sunny winter day you can see slush-spattered vehicles lining up halfway down the block to be vaccumed, hosed, blow-dried and buffed. No coins please. Leave a greenback in the old-fashioned mail box strategically placed within reach as you step out the exit and head toward your still-dripping mount.

By Eric Levin | | February 11, 2009

This is the reverse view–the back office, as they say on Wall Street. It Why are back doors always more interesting than front doors? Stage doors more than grand lobbies.

If there was a door in the Roman Colisseum marked LIONS ONLY, it probably had a certain allure, less so if you were the one booted in to meet your sharp-clawed destroyer, who was a bit miffed at having not been fed since he devoured his last bony gladiator a week ago Tuesday.

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