For Future Reference

As pondered and discovered (and *maybe* done) today on my way to and from the grocery store, here are things to do when sitting and waiting at one of those orange "STOP" signs held by a road construction worker wearing a bright orange vest and hat:

1. Contemplate what your next blog post will be.
2. Flip through the myriad of CD's crammed into your visor CD holder. (You *might* find some Christmas CD's in there, or something you've been looking for for *approximately* six months. You might also find a variety of odds and ends that have gotten stuck there because you didn't know what else to do with them, such as - and this is completely hypothetical - your expired gym membership card or your "Georgia Voter" sticker.)
3. Count the change in your ashtray. (You *might* discover that you have enough for an iced coffee.)
4. Stare awkwardly at the road construction worker wearing a bright orange vest and hat.
5. Clean out your glove compartment. (You *might* find your missing phone charger.)
6. Try not to think about your need for a restroom. (You *might* make it.)
7. Examine your fingernails. (You *might* not like what you see and *might* decide to work on them sitting right there.)
8. Pull out a road map and look at all of the other ways you could have gone home and thereby avoided the road construction worker wearing a bright orange vest and hat.
9. Thank the good Lord above that your child is asleep.
10. Watch the FedEx truck trying to pull out of a subdivision and imagine what he might have inside.
11. Sing loudly (and *probably* badly) to a random CD from your stretched out CD visor.
12. Call your grandmother, whose car you just saw parked next to yours at the grocery store, but who you did not see in the grocery store.
13. Worry pointlessly about your frozen food that *might* be melting in the back of the car.
14. Plan an elaborate menu for supper that you probably won't ever cook.
15. Wonder if the other people stopped by the road construction worker wearing a bright orange vest and hat are likewise entertaining themselves.
16. Read and be inspired by a few verses of Scripture in your pocket Bible. (You *might* wish you had your journal to make a few notes.)
17. Make a mental to-do list.
18. Make a mental note to put a small pad of paper in the console of your car for times like this.
19. Ponder the bumper sticker on the car in front of you. (You *might* find that it is a good subject for a future blog post.)
20. Wave, with a smile, at the road construction worker wearing a bright orange vest and hat as you go by. (If you think you have it bad because you just lost 25 minutes of your life, remember that they *might* have it worse. They're standing on hot pavement in Georgia in July wearing a bright orange vest and hat, and you're in your air conditioned car. The least you can do is try to brighten their day with a smile and a wave.)