How Has the Pandemic Shutdown Changed Driving in Your Area?

Speaking personally, I've noticed far less traffic for the last month or so, though it's gradually coming back as people get more daring—or apathetic—about going out. Though cops seem to be everywhere, speeding seems more frequent, and it hasn't meshed well with the area's burgeoning, slightly sanctimonious pedestrian population. For the first time in my life, the sound of street racing at night is commonplace, with motorcycles accounting for most of it, though somewhere out there is also a lone Jaguar F-Type, whose driver probably accounts for 60 percent of the county noise ordnances alone by now. God bless them for it.

Colleagues report seeing more ratty lifted vehicles on the road, not to mention the likes of ATVs and dirt bikes which, for you Montana residents, aren't legal in most of the country. As for parking, it's easier pretty much everywhere but Costco and King Soopers, where it's madness as usual. At least the TP hoarding has stopped for now—America's discovery of the bidet was long overdue.

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