Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
OMG, people in DC/VA who go to the end of the on ramp and then STOP and wait for an opening.
The Worst! I have come close on more than one occasion to rear ending someone on a ramp for this insanity. Of course some wacky engineers have decided to put a light at the end of ramps to control traffic volume. Weeps.
A Chicago quirk that catches people by surprise and has actually changed how I drive is that yellow lights only last for a three-count.
The Denver area has long yellow lights, which still mess with my brain. A ton of cars fly through like it is a contest to see how many can get through before it turns red. I've had people honk at me if I dare to stop before it turns red.
Random side note to traffic issues. It has been 6 months since I have driven on I-95. Instead I take the beach road and it has been slower but so much less stress.
This weekend I charted my potential routes for driving to NY for the summer and the highway route is ~22 hrs and the off highway options are ~30 hours. I decided it was worth it. Less chance for catastrophe and a change of scenery from a route I have done many dozens of times. Instead of staying in a hotel 1 night I am thinking 3, broken into fairly even chunks, with the 4th leg a short one from NYC to Otter Lake. First leg from home to Savannah to visit my niece. 2nd leg to Charlottesville (bats eyes at Zenkitty). 3rd leg to Staten Island to stay with my wonderful SIL and maybe kidnap her and take her with me upstate.
The notion is to arrive feeling like I have been on vacation instead of arriving tense and exhausted from two very long days of highway traffic.
That sounds nice, Laura. Always better to be able to enjoy the driving part of the trip rather than just enduring it until you get where you are going.
Crapola, I left the list of places I need to call about my parents' party at home. Oh well, a lot of them are probably closed on Mondays, anyway.
We've got the lights on the freeway onramps during rush hour. I think it helps, in that the idiots have fewer opportunities to try to intimidate their way onto the highway.
I much prefer non-freeway driving, those people are maniacs.
Of course some wacky engineers have decided to put a light at the end of ramps to control traffic volume. Weeps.
Weird. In the Chicago area we have lights at the beginning of ramps so you still have time to accelerate and merge.
Exactly, that would make sense. These are right at the highway. No car I drive goes from 0-75 in moments.
I realized over lunch that Oz has peed on the bag I have with me. It's a leather bag. I hope Nature's Miracle can work miracles.
Oz is such a jerk.
I may get a job offer today, and I don't know how I feel about it. I will have a slightly better idea once I actually get it, but I suspect I'm still going to be conflicted.