# That time I was stuck in traffic

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 1, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-time-i-was-stuck-in-traffic/756243 "2016-06-01T17:19:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-time-i-was-stuck-in-traffic/756243/21 "2016-06-02T21:33:42Z")

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> [@Bill\_Door](#):
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> I started to get obsessed about the fact that somewhere there was a little girl walking around and playing with her toys and going to school and living her life, all unknowing that her tombstone was sitting there on the corner waiting for her.

Well, you would, wouldn’t you, BILL DOOR.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-time-i-was-stuck-in-traffic/756243/22 "2016-06-03T21:02:20Z")

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When I was on vacation in Washington, DC, I chanced to take a local commuter train that ran for a stretch right next to a slow-moving multi-lane highway. On the train, we were moving much faster than the cars, and I could see the faces of the drivers in the crawling cars. I was glad I was zipping past them, and I wondered how they felt, looking back at me.

Every day on their slow commute, they may have pondered their choice to be in a car.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-time-i-was-stuck-in-traffic/756243/23 "2016-06-03T22:26:38Z")

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Not stuck, but driving with my Mom to the Tunbridge Fair in September 2009. Winding through Vermont, both of us singing along to Meat Loaf, I see something by the road. It takes a moment to register and I saw to Mom “Was that a _ham_?!” Mom: “\<bwah!\> That’s what I thought!”

It’s a sweet memory because it was the last visit before she died. The Fair featured the rarely-spoken “OK, meet you by the pig races!”

Oh, and recently I saw a baseball cap in the middle of the highway, exactly centered on the white line facing back where traffic was coming from, almost like it had to placed that perfectly.

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