The word sends shivers down my spine. Just the thought of wasting away my time stuck on the interstate, staring blankly into the rear end of the SUV in front of me, sometimes staring through that car into the endless row of ruby red break lights beyond...it's enough to ruin any day, suddenly and absolutely.
Have the construction contractors just not figured that working on the middle of the road during rush hour creates just a few problems? Are people THAT eager to get to work, to sit at that desk and drain their souls into meaningless work, that they really feel the need to drive 95mph down the highway, just to save 5 minutes on the highway to hell? Do we all REALLY all need to stare at the damaged vehicles on the side of the road, what do we expect...to suddenly see some form of physically damage we haven't seen the previous 100 times we were stuck in such a situation on the road?
Instead, we are forced by the need to travel to work, to join in a symphony of idling vehicles, talk radio and squeaking brakes. We sit like lemmings, in columns down the interstate, quietly waiting for our turn to move 5 feet further towards a job we’ve been contemplating quitting for 2 years, but haven’t found the motivation to rebuild our portfolios and retype our resumes. Pushing and shoving in a line of gasoline driven plastic and metal, to our inevitable mental demise at the hands of capitalism. We endure it all, simply because our culture suggests it as the means of happiness, of uniformity, the path to the American Dream.
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I agree. Sooo driving home from here, I must merge from one major highway to another--as it so happens, into the left-most lane; the passing lane. First of all, this is the dumbest layout of merging traffic EVER. But for the most part, peopel understand this is dumb and will get out of this lane before the hoards from the other highway appear. My favorite part of this, however, is the fact that the trucks and the slow people have to move over to the righter lanes, thus causing the lovely traveling-at-80mph to screeching-haults a 1/2 mile later. Im always a fan of bumber cars and go carts, but NOT ON A MAJOR HIGHWAY thanks :) i can do without. these highways are nothing to the EAC duuude--there you jsut cruuuuise right along man.
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