Storytime: Rush Hour

This is a story about an experience I had on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 while driving to work.

I've left early that morning because I'd simply finished my breakfast quickly and felt antsy about sitting around in the kitchen waiting to leave for work. On Tuesdays, I usually go into the office, so I get my coffee, computer bag, purse, and head out.

As I drive, I feel that I'm "in the flow" quite suddenly. My experience with driving my Jeep changes just a little bit. I'm not typically an "in the flow" kind of driver, nor am I particularly ambitious, but a feeling comes over me where I want to drive just a bit faster than normal. About halfway there, I find myself behind a very slow driver. In the past, this would have really frustrated me. This time, I'm just a tiny bit frustrated.

I begin to think "This person is driving so slow, I can't even pass him. I'm going to have to do something daring."

Suddenly, I'm not in my Jeep anymore. I'm not heading down a local highway in the middle of suburbia. I'm in a flying car in a dirty city behind a very slow person in another flying car, and I have just had the exact same thought. I start looking around the car in front of me, looking for a means to pass him. All around me are buildings made of steel. They are not high-tech constructions of art and crystal. They're steel, boxy, with very few windows. The air is a dirty brown. The sky is dirty brown. The ground is dirty brown. My flying car is really more like a flying box with peeling paint, and I get the impression I do everything I can to keep this thing together.

I give up on passing the guy in front of me. A feeling of trepidation creeps in. As I come back to this timeline and this body, I think, "I better be careful. The cops are all Reptilians and they're real pieces of work when they're pissed." Once this thought completes, I start to laugh, because now I'm passing a police station and the thought of them all being Reptilians becomes unspeakably funny to me.

​I make it the rest of the way to work without incident.