Five days a week. Four times the bell rings at 7:45. Yet one is unordinary. The week’s pinnacle begins with a break. A chance to scrounge around for the last minute project or to catch up on that sleep that never seems to happen on the weekends. This is the heavenly “Late Wednesday”. Senior Lex Smith puts it into perspective in saying, “Late Wednesday is the best thing that Chapin has ever done for my life.”
Each traditional mid-week morning delay presents choices. The choice to gratify one’s stomach, weight lift bright and earley, just plain sleep, catch up on homework, or even to play ultimate Frisbee. The most common and practical decision of the student body is to sleep. Many see the use of the Wednesday late day as the only sleep between the sheets for the rest of the week. However, other students find the morning as a chance to get a hearty breakfast at local, and sometimes not quite so local, restaurants. Many senior students take double advantage of having senior study hall first block on the same day as the delay, also known as super late Wednesday. Three particular seniors, A.J. Lang, David Kesling, and Adam Patterson take the journey down the interstate onto the main Harbison stretch to arrive at Denny’s. “Denny’s is brilliant,” said Senior A.J. Lang, “Before I order my lumberjack slam, I make sure to request Marlene as our waitress because she is a champion.” Other Chapinites venture locally into Waffle House, McDonalds, Hardees, and even the Kwik Way. Local restaurants, however, are becoming seemingly more and more crowded, but this seems to have little effect on students. “Every Wednesday I go to the Awful Waffle or McDizzles,” said Junior Harrison Church. On the flip side of eating a full breakfast is burning early calories. A group of predominately Freshman have taken over the once filled yard of portables near the stadium. “We get teams of 10, give or take, and we play Ultimate Frisbee from around eight o’clock to around five minutes until the bell,” said Freshman Matthew Duggan. This unusual tradition is among the many untold stories of Chapin’s own Wednesday morning.
