Sliding Down the Wire Grid

The countertop slalom was cool, but the stainless-steel dish rack hovering over the sink looked way more tempting as nighttime settled in. I grabbed my board, hopped over a cutting board edge, and scrambled up the tilted plastic tray straight onto the chrome wire rack. It felt like balancing on a suspension bridge! I wedged my deck sideways between two drying slots, grabbed an upturned coffee mug handle to keep my balance, and looked down. Right into the stainless basin below. One loose teaspoon clattered as I shuffled across, echoing like a dropped wrench, but I rode the slippery sloped drain-board down without taking a dive. Perfect rooftop lookout.