Face it - traffic sucks. No matter what kind of car you drive. There's only so much you can do in traffic without doing anything illegal. 

Our missions was to go hamburgers for the sake of ushering NFL's first holy Sunday the right way. I'm not really a fan of football but I am definitely a fan of hamburgers, especially Buns' hamburgers (there's 3 Buns restaurants in Montreal and they serve the BEST hamburgers). 

The Buns restaurant is about a 10 minute drive from our house but a friend advised us that due to a marathon going on in Montreal a lot of streets were closed off. This, of course, meant traffic - and lots of it. I'll tell you now that it took us 1.5 hours to get those hamburgers - a run that'd usually take 25 minutes max. 

I'll also tell you that those 1.5 hours were probably the most fun I ever had in traffic. Why? Well, we made it silly. We turned traffic on it's head. We tend to forget that when we're stuck in traffic, we're not the only ones (if we were, there'd be no traffic! DUH!). 

We grabbed some scooter helmets and just put 'em on while driving around in the Nissan Cube. Now, the Cube is already a car that gets a lot of looks, but when you're two young guys blasting the soundtrack to Night at the Museum and wearing scooter helmets, the looks change to thumbs-up, faces of laughter or disgust, you'll get people who point and laugh, you'll get people who don't want to look, you'll get kids who wave and laugh and their parents that either wave or push their kids in the opposite direction. Needless to say, funny things happen when you simply step outside of the norm. 

In the hour or so stuck in traffic people took pictures of us, waved to us, gave us thumbs up, thumbs down. People laughed, were curious, honked, danced to our music, we danced to theirs. We took traffic and turned it into something social. We're all in this together so let's fun. Isn't that what life is about?