Your True Tales
April 2004 – Page 17

Distorted Time
by Nicola

This strange thing happened to me on March 15, 2004. I finished work at 4:00 p.m. and was waiting at the top of a side street to cross both lanes of traffic to get onto the main road. There's always quite a long wait there, and there was again that day. I was looking left at the oncoming traffic, when all the cars that were traveling at the usual speed suddenly slowed simultaneously. It wasn't like they were slowing to stop for something either. It was like time had slowed or stretched. So I glanced right and saw the traffic was traveling at the usual speed. I looked left again and the cars were still moving in slow motion. Then all of a sudden the cars surged forward as if breaking free and everything was normal again. I sat there for a little while, missing a couple of opportunities to pull onto the main road, wondering what I'd just witnessed.

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