The Path of Most Resistance

Walking S to and from school has proven to be very difficult these days due to snowy, icy, slushy conditions as well as narrowed roads and sidewalks. Despite all this S chooses to take to school what I call "The Path of Most Resistance." It looks like this: sliding on every icy patch, punching snowbanks every 3 steps, stomping in every puddle, climbing over every mountainous snowbank to get to the crosswalk, and stepping in every pile of slushy mess. Needless to say we have to leave 5 minutes earlier to get to school on time. Oh, my path, by the way, excludes each of the aforementioned obstacles and includes trying to only step on dry pavement - I call that "The Path of Least Resistance!" S simply calls that "Boring!"