Not the kind of article I need to be reading right about now

Houston's traffic isn't this bad, right? Right?

If you think rush-hour traffic is frustrating, imagine what it was like for three women who gave birth in their vehicles because they couldn't make it to the hospital along clogged Interstate 5.

Two little girls entered the world during the morning commute in as many days this week, and a boy was born along the north-south artery on Jan. 5.

"We simply attribute it to coincidence," State Patrol Trooper Jeffery L. Merrill said. "Who wants to have their baby in their car on the freeway?"

I mean, you can't even boil water in your car. Clearly, the lesson is to leave for the hospital a little earlier than you think you need to.

Liz Kirkman and her husband Brian got caught in a rush-hour slowdown while driving to a hospital east of the downtown area.

"Once I was in the moving car, I was like 'Uh-oh,'" Kirkman, 28, said Tuesday. "I started doing the math in my head and thought, 'I am cutting this real close.' Then I got this urge to push."

Finally she propped her leg up on the dashboard and delivered Juliet, her seventh child, as her husband drove in the car pool lane.

Well, that's one way to avoid a ticket. I don't think it's very scalable, however.

Posted by Charles Kuffner on February 04, 2007 to See, I do have a life!