A little bit of drift, but this probably sums up the warm feelings the average motorist has about the state of the Nation.
I was stuck in a traffic jam on the M1 motorway - nothing was moving - and then a man knocked on my window.
I opened it and asked "what's happening?"
"Terrorists have kidnapped Julia Gillard, Penny Wong and Greg Combet. They're asking for a $100 million dollar ransom, otherwise they're going to douse them all with petrol and set them on fire, so we're going from car to car taking up a collection."
So I asked "How much is everyone giving, on average?"
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"About a litre."