Driving

Today I drove.  I drove to a place I drive to quite a bit.  It was not so much the fact that I drove or where I drove to that motivated this post, but rather the conditions in which I drove.  Today, the roads were horrendous.  At one point, I might as well have been driving on a sheet of ice.  Wet, maybe.  I didn't slip at all, but that may be due to the speed (or lack thereof), newer tires, or divine intervention.  What was usually an hour plus long trip home from work was triple that today.

Sometimes there are things that we do because we want to.  Sometimes there are things we do because we just do.  Then there are days like today when we do things because we have to.  At any point in the trip I could have pulled over and waited.  I so wanted to.  I hate driving interstate in conditions like they were today, but I didn't.  I stuck it out and pressed onward to home.  When you average about 30 miles per hour you find lots of time to think.  In the car, listen.

I listened to the radio for a while, as I usually do.  Talk radio until I bored of the commercials.  Switched to the comedy channel on the iheartradio app.  Listened to that until they lied to me.  Funny how selling your station as commercial free means you can play a commercial.  Then I decided to listen to the road and the voices in my head.  The difference between normal and straight jacket, I'm sure, is whether or not you obey those voices or just point an laugh at them.  But that's neither here nor there.  It was there earlier today.

Funny how sometimes you have all the time in the world, and then at others, all the time in the world isn't enough.