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Sometimes you feel like an American Idiot when you're stuck in traffic.

And as I was sitting there in a traffic jam that stretched from the Cesar Chavez exit all the way to the Bay Bridge (I don't know how far that actually is but it took an hour and a half), I realized several things:

a. one can only listen to Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" so many times before suicidal tendencies are trumped by an extreme desire to smash one's car radio

b. there is nothing more depressingly American than sitting alone in your car listening to Green Day, among hundreds of other cars in which people are sitting alone listening to Green Day, spewing exhaust into the fresh air on their way to the suburbs

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