It's the pre-back-to-school rush (or maybe the pre-pre rush) and every electronics retailer and e-tailer knows that students love new laptops.
In the distance, cars whiz over the bridge in a sparse pre-rush hour stream.
Even so, Mr. Bechtel didn't have much difficulty negotiating the pre-rush-hour traffic.
We smoothed our way through Arco Plaza and the skyscrapers of the old pueblo, rejoined the Santa Monica via the Harbor, cruised ever westward through pre-rush-hour traffic and emptied out at the Pacific Coast Highway.
Other vehicles were not so well behaved, especially the tractor-trailers that went by in a blur and seemed to account for a majority of the vehicles on the Interstate in the pre-rush hours.
(Despite the fact that he hasn't started classes yet, he told me he's already pledged Sig Ep as part of "an informal pre-rush thing").. Like Trump himself, Campbell tended to deal in absolutes.
The chef, however, was accustomed to this pre-dinner rush.
But, in the pre-Edinburgh rush, I didn't have time to take it in.
Demand in the West has been strong in the pre-Christmas rush.
Several took turns at the three hot line phones yesterday, a relatively quiet time after the pre-Christmas rush.
Others could not manage to provide the required numbers of signatures to support their candidacy in the pre-election rush.
