Sometime during the wee hours of the morning, a man was shot by the Police near our house during a high speed chase. That might explain the sirens I heard around 1:00 a.m.....Ironically, this story was one of the first things I heard as I turned on the radio in my car and headed for work.
I didn't get very far.....
Less than a mile up the road, I came across a MESS. The Police had blocked the road [which leads to day care!], and traffic was jammed going the other way. I turned around and headed home, because my husband had a meeting at 8:30, and I knew he'd never get through to day care in time. Plus, I wanted to make sure they were even open.
So, needless to say, I sat in the awful traffic and took Nicholas to day care while hubby headed in the opposite direction with no back-up. What is normally a five minute drive took about 30! And here is where the rudeness started.....some stupid woman had to speed up and jump over into the right lane and block everyone turning right! I was one of them. We attempted to "sneak" around her and turn anyway, and she gave us dirty looks! Was she afraid that I would possibly scratch her POS junker with my Lexus....? Please.....
This happened a second time at another turn. This time, the stupid woman didn't even go up to the painted white line -- she was about half a car length behind it. So, it wasn't even possible for me and the eight cars [also with their blinkers on] behind me to turn. I honked to tell her to "move up", but she was too busy talking on her mobile phone to notice, I guess.
Okay, so I drop him off and head to work. It should only take me about 15 minutes to get there.....yeah, RIGHT!
I mostly take back roads to/from work, because the highway is a nightmare during rush hour. Lately, work crews have been doing something to one of my cut through roads, but I never know when it will be closed! Yes, yes, you guessed it.....it was CLOSED this morning.....
I was already in the left turn lane and was going to turn down the closed road and turn around....but NO, some old dude was pulled way OUT past the white line [where was HE when I wanted to turn right???], and I couldn't get between him and the "Road Closed" sign. So, now I had to wait for the traffic to go straight and then move into that lane, so I could turn around up the road.
Aaaarrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Now, I'm turned back around and off to the detour. What else could go wrong, right....? Good GOLLY Miss MOLLY.....there's a car accident! A truck and compact have somehow collided [how, I couldn't figure out], and they now have part of a lane blocked. I am in a long line of cars trying to turn at this intersection. The road I was on dead ends into another road, so we either had to turn right or left [or AROUND, which many people were doing.....I had no other way to go, so I was stuck.]
More rudeness.....not ONE FREAKING car going along the road in EITHER direction would stop and let anyone out! Many cars were turning down the road, but they wouldn't let anyone turn out in front of them. Then, a minivan goes flying up the left lane past about 12 of us and turns right at the intersection -- cutting everyone off! I'm shocked that THEY didn't cause an even BIGGER accident.
Finally, the people who had the accident started directing traffic, and I was able to turn right and head to work. I swore, ONE MORE #$%&*@! THING, and I am heading home!
Alas, nothing else happened, and I made it here......about an hour after leaving home.....I'm really thinking I should have stayed home in the FIRST place! In bed. In my jammies.....
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