i think my life is wasted whilst in traffic. saturday morning - driving to sunset in traffic. leave l.a. and drive back in traffic. but at least i observe fellow commuters' insanity. apparently, if you are stuck in gridlock, it is a-okay to drive on the shoulder. really. it is. also, swerving in front of the one car ahead of you makes you go THAT much faster. and never let the cars merging on the freeway have it easy. make them really work for it. ah, great.