So one of the things in life that truly fascinates me is time. Someone back in the day said “hey guys, this is time and this is how it works,” and now we have this thing that can provide so many interesting things.

Think about your day. If you’re a typical person, you get up, get ready, go to work, do some work, finish work, head home, and do some other things before going to sleep. Within all of those things, there’s always a period of time where you are waiting on something or someone that keeps you from moving forward. Whether it’s waiting on a report so you can finish a project at work, someone had an accident on the highway and you can’t get by, or the water for your spaghetti hasn’t started boiling yet, there’s tons of time everyday where you are just waiting–time is not on your side.

But what if you could condense all of that time? At my job, there’s a looot of time where I’m just standing in the store waiting for a customer to come in. In the same vein, there are busy days where a customer comes in and has to wait for me because I’m too busy handling 2 or 3 other people. If we could just get together better, that customer would come on that day where I’m just standing around, and both of us would be more efficient. Now multiply that by the rest of the world and just think about that potential.

When I left work today I had a slight brain freeze and went the wrong way on the Beltway. Now before you call me a complete idiot, I spent the last few days at home in Virginia, and thus had gone south, but of course today was a Maryland day and North would have been far better. It took me a few minutes to get turned around and headed the right way, but time reared it’s somewhat interesting head to brighten the situation. As I neared the American Legion Bridge, I noticed a car in the right lane ahead of me had a long, bar-like sticker in the back window.

I thought it looked a lot like the Susquehanna University sticker in my window. But surely it couldn’t be since there are like -5 people from this area who even know what SU is. However, it was in fact from good ole SU, an occurrence I would have completely missed had I not gone the wrong way in the first place. Of course I haven’t the slightest clue who that person is, but the event alone was worth it for pure intruigement.