Brilliant solution!
One of the the things I try to do as an adult -- and it helps that I have taught children for 25 years -- is to get back to that place of seeing what is there instead of what, in adulthood, we are TOLD should be there... a child's mind is also free from "accepted" ideas about how things should be done...
Isn't Columbus, Ohio the home of the infamous 13'8 bridge under which trucks are often getting stuck?