It's late local time but only around 5pm your time. You could stick it out.
You could have picked up a rider, but it's against company policy anyway.
With no one to talk to, you pick up your phone and call your sister to see what she is up to.
She doesn't want to talk because the interplanetary lag is two seconds. You hang up with her and try the radio.
It's so bad at first you think your radio is broken or not tuned... But then you realize that is local music! Just a bunch of random warbles and whistles.
No wonder the people on this planet don't care if they live or die. There is no rock music to listen to!
The traffic comes to a halt. "Now what?" You groan. There is no hint of moving. Cars are stopped.
You then feel it in your steering wheel. "Bump" as if lightning just struck or a cannon went off.
You then feel another "bump" in the steering wheel a bit stronger. Then another and another. You should...
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