Today’s Rant

9 mile hike today. 9 miles, didn’t pass a soul. Stop to take a whiz and a runner suddenly appears out of nowhere at just the wrong moment. WHY? The same thing happens to me at Trader Joe’s, which gets crazy busy at 5:30, so I get out of the way of the aisle, stand in an unused corner while I consult my list, but don’t you know it, some dude desperately needs to get the Latvian beet powder or whatever the hell is exactly behind where I’m standing. I have pulled over onto dirt roads in the middle of nowhere, New Mexico, to consult my map. Some unused pull-off, some trail that goes absolutely NOWHERE, and I guarantee every time I will hear a car horn honk as some guy for some inexplicable reason comes along two minutes later needing to go that way.