Drive to work? How long did this morning's commute take? Half an hour? An hour? Longer?
We've all been stuck in traffic jams while on our way to a job interview or to the airport, forced to listen to talk radio or adult contemporary music (which only makes our blood boil faster). In those situations, it sometimes seems like walking would be a faster way of getting to our intended destination -- if only we could leave our cars behind.
Well, some geniuses in China saw a business opportunity in that common frustration. If you're stuck in a jam in the cities of Wuhan, Jinan or Beijing, you can have someone wait in your car for you while you're chauffeured to your destination on the back of a motorcycle, according to Agence France-Presse
Drivers in Jinan have paid up to $60 U.S. for the service.
There's no doubt a market for such entrepreneurship here: we hate waiting as much as the rest of the world and have flocked to businesses where we can pay someone else to endure mind-numbing hold music while waiting to make a customer complaint so we don't have to do it ourselves.
The only teeny tiny challenge in bringing the skip-the-traffic-jam industry to Canada? Our driving laws might need to be relaxed to allow motorcycles to weave through traffic.
How much would you pay to bust out of a jam in order to make it to your important destination?
Dakshana Bascaramurty