As Far As You Know

I sort of expected the Choate campus to be desolate this afternoon, as most underclassmen have taken off after Prize Day and SAT testing and seniors are with their families in anticipation of tomorrow's graduation exercises. But I just took the scooter downtown to the bank and the convenience store and it seems like Wallingford is deserted, too. There were hardly any cars on the road. Granted, it's the first 90-plus-degree day of the year, and it is a Saturday. But the lack of the usual bustle in town gave me an eerie feeling, like I was in one of those post-apocalyptic science fiction movies. Either that or there is some big party going on that I wasn't invited to.