Sweet revenge, slow torture
The morning commute has been dreadful for quite awhile now. This morning it was extremely foggy out our way so I knew it could only be worse. As feared, the traffic was backed up at the very first traffic light. This portion of the road is 2 lanes, one in each direction. As I am sitting there, stewing, some asshole thinks they don’t need to wait and swings out into the oncoming lane in an attempt to get up to the light and make a left turn. This moron is in the wrong lane for a good 200-300 yards. I hastily rolled down my window and gave the single digit salute in a fruitless attempt to display my anger at the stunt. Then the cavalry arrived. The offender didn’t happen notice they were passing a deputy who immediately swung out , flipped on his lights and pulled the moron over. Ali and I cheered like the Eagles just scored a touchdown. Hope the jerk got slapped with a nice fat fine.
The rest of the drive in was downhill from there. Every single intersection we came to was backed up. The hoardes of dump trucks clogging traffic, making it even slower since they creep along and leave huge gaps in the traffic because they don’t want to have to shift through the gears. I was 20 minutes late for work, even with leaving at 7am. It’s maddening. The first stage of the road widening out by our place is supposed to be done within the year. That should help things, somewhat. I still have ideas about moving closer in the back of my mind. They are steadily moving closer to the front all the time. Too many people on too small of a road.
reality gnome
“cheered like the Eagles scored a touchdown” – a complex analogy. I assum you meant that you cheered out of stunned disbelief at the occurance. The chance of Deputy Dog sitting in traffic waiting for a “wrong way” offender is about as unlikely as an Eagles offensive touchdown.
I must add that I was at a packed house basketball game last evening. One of the teams was losing terribly. Having nothing to cheer for and knowig they were supporting a lost cause, their fans began doing E-A-G-L-E-S cheers. Seemed fitting. L-O-S-E-R-S go Eagles.