Today was take Smoother to work day. And me, not being one to shun holidays, I took him to my office. On the way to the office, we were driving on a back street and got stuck behind a city truck driving at about 10 mph. Before being Stuck in Iowa™, I was stuck in New Jersey. I picked up a tad bit of impatient driving from the East coast, and passed the truck in town.

Smoother looked at me and asked, “Can we pass in town?” I said, “We can now!”

“OK”

Then there was dead silence. And somewhere in America, gas prices went up.