Meet some Germans who swim to work

The swimming commuter in this video is fricking delightful.

And an even better Monday morning treat is this brief Rebecca Schuman essay where we discovered our swimmer, plus other Germans who doggy-paddle to work; Schuman's thoughts on the awfulness of traveling to the office; and "a crucial German/American dichotomy: Namely, that even though Americans claim to be happier and Germans claim to be unhappier (at least for now), I shall now advance the groundbreaking theory that Germans actually are happier than we are in their day-to-day lives."