One day, while caught in a seemingly interminable evening traffic jam in downtown Washington, DC, I had what was at first an amusing then oddly disturbing thought: What if the Apocalypse came in the form of a global gridlock?
One day, all the major cities would start to bog down, cars filling every inch of road, until there was no escape. The jams would start to grow out of the cities as more and more cars tried to enter, filling the roads and turnpikes, highways and bypasses, spilling out like a stain, until finally everything grinds inevitably to a halt.
And then the sun sets on all of us, waiting patiently or angrily (as the personality dictates) in our idling cars, never to rise again.
Of course, this makes Final Judgment very convenient. Drive Through!
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