December Daily Writing Project: December 16

December 16-

You are stuck on the highway in the world’s worst traffic jam for at least two days.  What happens?

After having only crawled about a mile in over a day, sitting in traffic on I45, I knew every channel on the radio by heart.  Thank God it was mild enough weather keep the windows down instead of running the A/C or the car would’ve died much sooner.  Nevertheless, it was Tuesday afternoon when the car finally wouldn’t start back up, surrounded by all these other cars either dead or dying.

            My car wasn’t the first to die by a long shot.  Just from walking around and talking to other cars on the road, it was clear that many people’s cars had started failing on Monday night, but the people hadn’t wanted to desert their vehicle.  It likely was the only property they owned after all.  Everything to the east had been decimated as far as anyone could tell.