Traffic; Sodium

Yesterday, after dealing with the house, I had an early din din at Outback. I finished around 5:30 and headed home. Not really thinking about the fact that I would be in the midst of homeward bound traffic.

I was in one county and to get home I needed to travel to another county. The two counties are separated by a river that is bridged at only four points in this area. Which obviously means that all the traffic must use one of the four options.

As soon as I turned onto the highway that crosses the river, I realized it was bumper to bumper in all lanes. Although I've driven the highway many, many times, I'd never been on it during rush hour at night.

I was trapped in the middle lane. There was an SUV in front of me and several to the left. My only view of the environs was to the right. As I moved along, I was not certain exactly where I was. I would catch a glance on a building to the side, but I couldn't remember its position in the sequence along the road. Was the building at point A or point B?

At last I had an opportunity to use a cross street to take me to a secondary road. But I quicky found out that the traffic on the secondary road was also bumper to bumper, so there was no way for me to turn left. I finally turned right and took a route that meanders back and forth through a series of neighborhood streets.

By the time I pulled in the drive, I felt like I'd gotten there by the Panama Canal.

So today as I shopped at WalMart, I paid close attention to the nutrition facts on the label. And with each item, I tried to select the product lowest in sodium.

I encountered sodium where I was not expecting it. The sodium in a single serving of milk equals 5% of your daily value. The only product without sodium was a gallon of sweet tea.

PAX!