I strongly dislike waiting. Ours is a quick-service society. We want what we want and we want it now. Instant credit. Overnight delivery. Car insurance in 15 minutes or less. Jimmy John’s “freakishly fast” delivery. Computers that calculate complex equations in the blink of an eye. I find it irritating when I arrive at the…

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Having secured my cache of pharmaceuticals from Rite Aid, I pulled up to the Guide Meridian looking carefully to my left to see what, if anything, was coming from that direction. The Guide Meridian, widened from two lanes to four for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC, is inarguably the busiest arterial in Whatcom…

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