“What are Mindful Mondays? What are Wellness Wednesdays?”
A Sphinx has been perplexing East students with this riddle for the past semi-demi-hemi-quarter. If they answer it correctly, they may enter the building. If they do not answer it correctly, they must run down the ice-covered Freshman Hill and risk being ever so slightly late to class.
To date, no students have correctly answered the Sphinx’s riddle, according to the Sphinx herself.
“I’ve heard a lot of creative but incorrect answers. People have suggested it has something to do with PAC, or maybe teacher workdays, or maybe clubs. But nobody has actually said the correct answer.”
The Sphinx, who previously guarded Thebes before Oedipus finally replied “man” to its first riddle, has reportedly been hired by the school district to help remedy its substitute teacher shortage in response to the Omicron variant.
“I know that my job in Ancient Greece was a lot more exciting, but apparently this is my hardest riddle yet,” the Sphinx said. “A lot of people from Lincoln Center have come by here, and none of them have been able to answer correctly either.”
When asked about why there is something that is not a wildcat but in fact a terrifying falcon-lion-human hybrid guarding the Wildcat entrance, Acting Interim Principal Aaron Acome said that he thought it would get students to eventually figure out what Mindful Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays are.
“Okay, to say something about something, we forgot what the days mean too. But there are a lot of students here, I guess, although I haven’t gotten around to counting them all yet. If they are all as scared of ice as we assume they are, which I think is true, I’m pretty confident they will eventually figure out a solution, or well at least that’s something that has been said.”
Students have also expressed great confusion about the Sphinx. Sophomore Ed Dippus, who considers himself “pretty good at riddles,” has attempted the riddle before, during and after school every day, but has never managed to answer it correctly.
“Yeah, this is going to go on for a while,” the Sphinx said. “And I’m not going to give any hints.”
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