My roommate Michael and I had just finished our shifts today. Howie came out of the store and asked us if we wanted to run a delivery to an address just outside the delivery zone. I said sure, eager for an adventure, and took the call. I explained to the man on the other end of the line that I’d just gotten off but would pay for his pickup order and bring it to him if he made it worth my while, which I said would be $4, though I wished I’d asked more.

As Michael and I rode out to the address we imagined all the ways this could go wrong. “This is probably the sketchiest thing I’ve done at work,” I said. We decided to try to find the guy and his companions at their pool instead of calling and waiting to meet. We rode up a ramp to a pool at our destination, but didn’t find our man. Someone there suggested trying the other pool, which was raised one story off the ground a stone’s throw away. “Well, you could climb it,” Michael said as we rolled up. “Yeah, right here,” I said, spotting a brick ledge with a grate in the wall. I mounted, set the sandwich bag on top of the wall and pulled myself up.

I collected the bag and swung myself over the railing, climbing down right next to a woman sun bathing. Her expression mingled confusion and disapproval, but she said nothing. I called out, “Sandwiches!” and soaked up the growing reaction of the pool goers. Someone called out the name of our store in gleeful exclamation. “He just climbed over the fence!” I heard someone say. “We’re just freaky like that,” I said back. I caught sight of my customers, fit young men in shades and board shorts. “Whoa, check out that service,” one of them said as a smattering of applause broke out.

They handed me the sum, including an extra dollar, and then one called back and fished a wad of 3 crumpled ones out of a bag, “This is for climbing all the way up here!” he said. I was beaming as I walked back to the ledge. “We don’t normally deliver here,” I clarified to the crowd of onlookers. “You’re a badass!” someone shouted. The woman sunbathing warned me to be careful as I climbed back down. “How’d he get up here?” “He just climbed that like Spider Man!” the chatter continued.

Michael was smiling just as widely as me when I landed. “That was so worth it.”