Little Things

This morning traffic was thwarted by a branch on the highway. Not a tree limb, but a tiny insignificant branch. I’m guessing it had fallen off of someone’s truck and landed in the road. And proceeded to bring three lanes of a major freeway to a complete and utter standstill. Nobody wanted to drive over it or get out and move it, so they all proceeded to try to merge into the next lane over. Everyone in that lane, after having to stop to let the new group in, then proceeded to merge into the lane next to them, bringing that lane to a stop too. You could see an almost empty freeway ahead, on the other side of the offensive little branch. Just goes to show you that even little things can bring the world to a stop and make a big impact.