Lady in the Way
The driver’s horn blasts a millisecond before I sense the thump of bumpers.
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4 min readMar 29, 2021
A pop-up detour traps me on a city street; the way out blocked by a semi-truck unloading, the trucker unimpressed by the urgency of my schedule. Can’t move forward. Can’t move left or right. Must reverse slowly.