Human Interest

Waiting for the Wrong Moment

Just give it a minute

Time Lapse Photo of Passing Traffic. Brooklyn Bridge. Photo Credit: Author (2008).

The Department of Motor Vehicles, a hospital waiting room and jury duty. Few among us spring up in the morning excited about any of these destinations. Either a soulless bureaucracy must be appeased, or we must sit soaked in hope and worry, or we have to answer a cattle call before being made to judge another’s fate.