chute

Subterranean bins have been built into the brick pavement on street corners, where residents can drop their bags into a chute above ground.

“The Chair Company” allows us to see how anyone might fall down the chutes into which Robinson’s Joe Average easily slides.

“Someone might have stolen my spot because they ran down a 3,000-meter ski chute where gravity is helping you,” he said.

In a mistake that the rigger would not discover until later, they included a dummy chute that would not open.

When the signal came, one line of pallets raced down the hold’s railing, their chutes ripping open in a flurry of motion as they fell out of the back, one after another.