[As ever, this is on the BBC News website]
As a radio addict I often find myself with 5 Live burbling away in the background as I sit at my keyboard in the early morning, taking advantage of that first caffeine hit of the day to get some serious work done.
Every now and then the traffic report comes on, and I feel the smugness that comes from knowing I don’t have to negotiate the M6 or fight my way across the roundabouts of Slough in order to get to work.
Yet from time to time I hit my own traffic jam, one that never makes it onto the drivetime news.