Jam!
Texas A&M’s Transportation Instituted reported:
According to the Urban Mobility Scorecard, travel delays due to traffic congestion caused drivers to waste more than 3 billion gallons of fuel and kept travelers stuck in their cars for nearly 7 billion extra hours—42 hours per rush-hour commuter. The total nationwide price tag: $160 billion, or $960 per commuter.”
They say that drivers have to plan more than twice as much travel time as would need in light traffic
Wallpaper?
In 1862, Richard Turner, a bricklayer, and his wife lost all four of their children to a mysterious illness.
The first was thought to have suffered from diphtheria, and so was the second. Within days the third child died. When the fourth, Ann Amelia, began to display the same symptoms, Dr. Orton, one of Victorian London’s distinguished physicians, was called in.
Orton’s notes describe Ann Amelia “suffering from extreme prostration, racked with pain, and unable to swallow.”
Stink!
Jakarta-bound Sriwijaya Air flight was delayed the other day at Bengkulu in Sumatra, Indonesia.
The reason? Passenger complaints about an overpowering stench.
The culprit: Two tons of the thorny fruit called durian in the cargo hold.
Durian is common in Southeast Asia and distinguished by its strong stink that evokes, usually, disgust. Raw sewage is what it smells like, resulting in it being banished from most hotels and public transportation in that part of the continent.
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Elections?
Wikipedia calls John C. Turmel “a perennial candidate for election in Canada.” He first ran in 1979, with his primary goal to legalize gambling. He got 193 votes. (He lost!)
In about four decades, Turmel has contested 95 elections—yes, ninety-five!—and lost them all, propelling him into the Guinness Book of World Records!
He’s run for everything from city councilor to leader of the Marijuana Party, from Mayor of Ottawa to Member of Parliament, receiving anywhere
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.