For August, we asked if you had to spend a couple hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic, whose ghost would you want to pass the time with and why? We got some superior entries and after we combed through them, we named Nicole Dodson the winner.

My friends don't understand why I take the same route home after work every day. Traffic is always a nightmare at five o'clock. What they don't know is that I'm carpooling with the incorporeal. I usually pick her up around mile marker seven. Her name, she says, is Scheherazade.