traffic dooms the earth

i utterly hate commuting and driving in traffic (as if anyone enjoys it). i think the worst thing about it is that it makes me not want to drive at all afterwords. not even for something important, like getting food. i can just waste away on the couch, listening to the amplified fish tank in my stomach, but no amount of complaining will force me to get back in the car and get food. (this is all assuming, of course, that i am not at my own house, or that i have no food in the house, both scenarios are not uncommon.) that may seem somewhat minor, not willing to eat, but i love eating and tasty food. for something to dismay me so much as to dissuade me from even eating carries some real weight and is extremely influential. its almost kind of scary. if it could impact me so heavily as to steal the power of my raging appetite, what else could it accomplish? or not accomplish for that matter.

of course, this seeming dilemma really only impacts me, so far, and presents very little, if any, concern for anyone other than myself. or those unfortunate souls who happen to be within voice distance that i am nagging to get food for me. suppose there was some scenario in which my complete reluctance to drive would drastically impact the lives of others? and not just a few others, but all others, the entirety of mankind. what if there was a scenario that held global repercussions that hinged upon me dragging my half-dead brain back into my car and driving? perhaps some rift in the time-space continuum threatened to unravel the laws of physics at an exponential rate and the only thing that could stop it was for me to drive my car to the next city to re-balance our plane of existence. what then?! i guess that in such a situation, more than a handful of people would pay acute attention to my apathy and utter dismay. maybe then people would understand just how dangerous it is to live in a society and culture that is ok with allowing this system of transportation that constantly saps the soul from a large percentage of its denizens. the underpinnings upon which such a system is based will surely result in its own miserable demise if something doesn't change with urgency! any experience that drives a man to such extremes of indifference should gain the attention of any politician that has even the most minute truth behind his or her claims of caring for his or her constituency.

or maybe someone can just get me some in-n-out next time i'm re-sensitizing after an hour of 3 mph.