Here is what you need to know.

Vultures are plentiful in central Texas, and they seem so apt when hovering overhead during the evening rush hour when people are frantically catapulting themselves in their giant hunks of metal toward home, or wherever they're going to reclaim their Real Lives with what’s left of the day, and the sun burns your left ear through the car window, and the vultures maintain their stately, unhurried pace.

Scavengers know how to bide their time.

A lesson to the rest of us.