I had a great visual reminder today of how life is sometimes. I was driving to my destination that under normal circumstances would have taken 55 minutes to an hour to drive. Given the time of day, it would probably take a little longer, maybe an hour and 15 minutes. Well, that didn't account for lane closures. Lane closures on two different freeways backed up traffic so badly that it affected the road I was on as well. Add 30 more minutes to the schedule for stop and go traffic for about a 10 mile stretch. It doubled the time of the normal drive.
And that's really how it happens, right? You can't really tell when you're about to come up on a stretch that will slow you down - not just a little bit, but a whole lot. It gets your attention, It makes you a little angry. It gives time to think about a lot of things, one of which is jumping off the freeway and taking an alternate route. That nearly always costs me more time than the slow pace driving on the freeway.
When you make it out of the snarl, you sure feel like whooping and hollering. Yes, that is the way life is.
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