In the Car
I was driving home on Erie Boulevard today. I neared an intersection where I would be turning left, and ahead of me, in the middle of two of the three lanes sat a car. A driver was headed out of a parking lot to my right; there was a car at the light, stopped; and there was a car in each of the second and third lanes to my left. Everyone was sitting still, uncertain what to do as the car's light were on, there was a person in the driver's seat, and nobody was sure if it was a breakdown - of the car, or possibly, the driver. Eventually, as a car began to pass on the left of the lane-crossed car, the driver looked up - yes, she was on her phone - and moved more or less into the second lane from the right. I say more or less because the light had turned, so she stopped again, mostly in a proper lane but not entirely, and went back to the phone. In one possible scenario, there was an emergency on the phone she was dealing with. In another, she was just - as most of us are b...