So sue me. Well don't cause I don't have much but what I have I always like to keep. Like my sequins and felt (story for another day).
For various reasons, I had to drive in to work today. Its a commute that without traffic should take 30 minutes, but I'm not sure when "without traffic" is. I've traveled this tollway at all hours and never found it "without traffic". I had another kvetch in my head (about the electronic signs that tell you how much time it will take you to get to your destination - is this if you are going warp speed? Are they talking about another city? Or, as someone suggested to me this morning, maybe I'm just not driving fast enough...) but I figured this is a long time kvetch and maybe some education for folks.....
People people people........TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE BRAKE!!! For hecks sake.... When in traffic, there is no need to speed up, brake, speed up, brake....or brake.......brake.....brake..... I don't know if I should really brake as there is something stopping in front of you, or if you are just in a panic cause you think you might have to stop. Here is a novel idea for you.....decrease your speed and when you see that traffic is starting to slow.....TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS!!! Yes, you can do it!! Instead of singing "put one foot in front of the other" try singing "take one foot right off and the other". It works....really.. You can make it a game as well. Being of simple mind (you know, simple pleasures simple mind?) I play a game in traffic seeing how long I can go without braking. Its fun....its educational.....its a laugh a minute (not really but it beats screaming swears out of the window while beating my steering wheels with my hands...maybe not as amusing tho). Now, go back to work and put a dang smile on your face.
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For ten years or so I used to travel to work just one junction on the nearby motorway (freeway? - 3 lanes each way plus hard shoulder/ no stopping / access and exit via slip roads) at 7:45 am-ish each day. My private game was to travel the one junction without being passed by another vehicle in either direction. I actually experienced this once. That road was spookily quiet. Now, 20 years on, it is absolutely rammed full of slow moving traffic every day. I used to wonder "why did they ever build this road?" and now I have my answer: arteries are for clogging. That's progress for you...
All that we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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