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Oh my goodness.

How are you today?

Me?

Thanks for asking.

I'm fine. No, actually, I'm not. Right now, it's, it's December 20th, 19,

oops, 2014. Oh my God. How old am I? Uh, it's December 20th, 2014, not 1994.

And right before Christmas.

So today I went, you know, doing a little bit of shopping, looking around.

Actually, I didn't buy anything.

What a wasted date. Anyway, so I'm on the road and the traffic is insane and I'm thinking to myself,

what's going on? And then I realize everybody's driving, everybody's shopping for Christmas,

they're preparing for Christmas. It's a big holiday in America. It's a family time.

Families get together. We exchange gifts and we rest and eat good food. Of course, some families go to church.

I don't know. My family doesn't, but, oh, Christmas is great fun.

But today, dealing with holiday traffic, I went nuts.

And that's today's expression.

Holiday traffic.

Holiday traffic.

So in America, we have basically two times when holiday traffic is really bad. And the first

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