Wow, has it been a doozy couple of days! Funerals, traveling, spike in trouble tickets, spike in customer calls, virus incident at work, pool cleaning, lawn mowing, etc, etc, etc.

You get the idea. Have you ever had one of those runs where you think you will never catch up?

I hate days like that. It just seems like things are piling on faster than you can buzz through them. then all of a sudden order returns to the land of chaos.

I’ve always wondered how that happens. It just seems like out of the blue you get hit with requests from every angle for a few days and then peace.

Years ago I used to work at a gas station in a small town along the interstate about 40 miles from the state capitol. At least a few times a day you would go from complete ghost town to complete swarm.

Just goofy.

No customers at all and then lines 4 and 5 deep at every pump and the convenience store filled with people. We used to wonder how that always happened. It wasn’t at a certain time of the day (say everyday at 3:15 or 5:30). Just random.

I used to say it was because of the traffic lights in the capitol city letting a crowd of people onto the interstate at once or maybe because cars travel in packs on the interstate, but you never really see an entire pack of cars pull off the interstate at once.

We never did figure it out. But I have noticed that it applies to other areas of life. Like the last few days for me.

What do you think causes your “spike” in work/traffic/etc?

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