“Call me on the cell phone” by Drake cranked up in the car I was waiting in the car like everyone else in the morning rush hour.

The coffee mug in the front. I picked up and started to sip.  Sometimes I would look at the next door car to see who is driving? But then back to focus on driving. Specially, when it is bumper to bumper traffic.

Rainy weather and its quite dark on this early winter morning. Then I decided why not take a short cut today and cut through the rush? I took a right turn and went in a residential area. Soon I reached the end of this residential area where all the house’s lights were off. People were probably still sleeping? But, what if someone living in theses houses have to go somewhere this early or even to there work? I felt if I trespassed there property even though I was on a road. And why not? Its there area right? There kids play on this road, they know there neighborhood and here I was a total stranger trying to cheat rest of the people waiting in the rush hour line up. What about the residents of this road? I felt if I was trespassing some private property. Even though there were other cars in front of me, I felt I was cheating. May be little bit or sometimes its ok I guess?

I was again waiting in one more lane to get on to the bridge that was still 20 minutes away. Distance is less than half a kilometer was a 20 minutes away? Just then a car over took me and merged in front of me. I wanted to honk, but then I realized people might wake up! Am I not already breaking the rules or ethics by entering their street. I sat and started to wait again. I looked around and saw tree leaves turned orange and the branches were black and clear as rain washed the dust way. I rolled down the window to get some fresh air. Just then few drops of rain fell into car and I rolled up the window.

Every morning I am stuck with bunch of random people and  it is annoying, but for 30-40 minutes all these were part of my life. Driving is like a culture where there were some annoying people who would cut everyone off or would merge from the end of the merging lane, but then there were the one who would wait patiently to get through the traffic “the daily commuters” and then there were the Randoms who just happen to be got stuck in the bad traffic. very impatiently they do not hesitate to break the culture. Three kind of people on one road: the ones who waited patiently, the one who were not patient so they merged to the next lane and then there were the people who don’t really believed in any sort of a manner, a road sharing culture or behavior. They just don’t care!

I looked at all of these were part of my daily commute and were there in my happiness, sadness and anger. I knew no one, but if I would get out of the car and would say I am having a heart attack would someone help me? Yes someone would. I was still lost in my thought and just then all the cars came to the stop and all the red brake lights were turned on. All the way and up to the hill all the lights were turned red. I searched for the radio.

NO car was moving now. I started to panic and severing. Fuck! now what happened?

I searched through the radio and try turning on the GPS. A voice from a radio, there is a 10 car accident on the Alex Fraser bridge please take the alternate route and avoid the congestion.

Great! Just what I didn’t wanted to happen. Is it 30-40 minutes not enough to be stuck in traffic? I can literally do nothing and now with new laws in place? Touching the telephone was quite hazardous and expensive if ticketed? Specially for the money that I was going to earn after being stuck in the traffic.

“dumb asses. It rain a little and people start to crash. Why the hell you can’t drive safe”? I told myself loud in the car. I put my car in park and started to wait. soon the other cars did the same. I could see some car were actually turned off. Even tough I was mad it took me few minutes to get back to normal. Everyone else is on the same boat. People started to pick up there phone and started to call there employers. May be wife, husbands, kids? Who knows where this whole world was heading to in this early morning in the rain?

OH well! This was a another day in November!