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Avoiding rush-hour traffic is one of the better perks of the freelance lifestyle. Seldom must this scribbler enter the iron-ant swarm between 7 and 10 am… This morning was different.

Two hours to drive the 60-mile round trip to Stillwater. How do you folks do it? Dental work–the comfy chair, that bright light in your eyes, the smell of tooth-dust honed off by a screaming drill–is more comforting than moving inch by inch in a school of cars that’ll do 100 now forced to go 10, or 5, or 0.

Road rage is easy to understand when you have somewhere to go and no way to get there other than creep–which has prompted my theory that traffic jams cause vampirism:

The early vampires were ordinary commuters who went mad from daytime carriage traffic and took to travelling only at night. The whole bloodsucking thing arose incidentally–Transylvanian restaurants close early.

Honestly, how long can you sit in gridlock accomplishing nothing before you start wishing you could fly over the blockade or give some rude driver a good chomp?

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