Driving is Dangerous
Some of you may know that I commute to work from the city. Since I am doing the reverse commute there's usually not much in the way of traffic. Usually it takes about forty minutes to get out to Suffern and around an hour to get back.
That's not the story.
I travel along two roads which are notoriously dangerous. New Jersey's Route 4 and Route 17. Both these roads have stores and strip-malls along the sides which means that along with people traveling from Point A to Point B, you get people traveling from Point A to that store, you know, there on Route 17.
Which leads to people slamming on the breaks and veering across three lanes of traffic so they don't miss the entrance for Bed Bath & Beyond.
I find this is very nerve-wracking and frustrating. Do these people not realize that they are driving a half-ton vehicle at 50 mile-per-hour? Do they not understand that behind them and around them are others doing the same? Are they suicidal?
This is why I work from home so much.
7 comments:
Dude, you are not kidding! Both those roads are nutty clown shows of driving at like, all times. This is for sure partly due to drivers munching on lead-based lipstick, by the way.
Driving in Jersey could easily be classified as an extreme sport. Especially when you have drivers who listen to their ipods with their headphones wrapped around their neck.
You know, I never thought about the lipstick-ipod-crappy-driving connection, but now that I do it's totally obvious.
Man, the lesson in all of this is do not eat lipstick!
But some are so tasty!
Don't eat it! Don't!
Also, do not eat candy. Eat a delicious vegetable!
But only one.
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