If there is one thing I don't like about the last few months of the year it is what happens to the roads on my commute to and from work. Once summer is "over" and the kids go back to school the roads around here seem to be at their busiest they are all year. This year particularly it seems to be getting mental. Add to that the generally crap drivers (doing 55mph in the middle lane with cars swarming around to get past you is not a good idea) and it adds up to a lot of traffic.
This week especially seems to be bad. Normally I rarely slow down below the speed limit when driving to work since I go in early enough. This week though I only seem to be able to do the speed limit half of the time. The rest is spent slowing down and speeding up as too many people do the wrong thing on the road and don't leave enough room for each other or don't let other people merge or dozens of other stupid things. Considering 48 of the 52 miles I do on my commute are on the freeway I should be doing a fair clip, especially at 5am in the morning.
I can only take all this traffic as a good sign I suppose. If more people are driving to work then things might be picking back up a bit. If that is so then things for me might actually pick up a bit more and we can move on with our lives and get out of our house and do more of what we want to do.
Now if only other people on the road were more considerate of other drivers around them we might actually get somewhere.
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