In which I hit 'random' on Wikipedia a few times until I get a location.

[monkeytailed]

SCENE: The Central Expressway in Dallas, Texas. (This is why you guys should stop me.)

The sun hung low to the west, looking like someone threw a bright red tomato at the horizon and it stuck. It's hot, but not quite oppressively so. It's merely unpleasantly hot, unless someone had a taste for hot weather in which case it was likely delightful.

There's also gridlock: apparently there was a traffic accident further to the north. (Great.) You won't be going anywhere for a while.


Also, because RNG prompts can help break the ice:

1) The bus you're on was part of the accident. Due to police procedures you're now stuck waiting for Dallas' mass transit company to send in a second bus. In the meantime you're just standing on an awkward shoulder just off of the freeway, watching cars go by and wishing you were them. It's pretty boring, yo.

2) Your bus is stuck in the middle of traffic and you're not going anywhere. Also, if you're a reader you just finished the last chapter of your book. Dammit. When it rains, it pours.

3) You're stuck taking care of something small and whiny while...being stuck in traffic. A puppy. A baby. Baby Mario. Whatever. Fortunately you're not the only person who gets to suffer!

4) SUDDEN. POLICE. CHASE.

5) '...and that was when your neighbor turned to you and you realized that they were looking kind of sick.'

6) Your vehicle is downwind of cows and...yeah, you can kind of smell them.

Comments

BUSWIDE ANNOUNCEMENT

[survival_101]

...whoops.

[survival_101]

...but if someone didn't lay on the brakes that would've totally worked.

[nozomiracle]

[lowkeyinaminor]

...uh huh.

[survival_101]

Well how do you solve a traffic jam?

[lowkeyinaminor]

I'd say 'bribe or blackmail my way onto the city council and proceed enact better policies about traffic management' but I'm not entirely certain that I'm invested enough to bother.

[builds]

Take a helicopter.

[survival_101]

And with access to neither? Doing the best you can.

Although I do like that helicopter idea. Any ideas how to make the news helicopter land long enough to grab it?