The Commute and the Gawkers

Man, maybe my life is too busy and exciting that I don't need to blog - it's been almost a month since my last post.

Well it's Sunday and it's the day before I have to drag my ass back to work for another five day week. Work is actually not that bad, I like the new challenges that I have to face at work. But the only thing that I hate about my day is the commute. All of you suckers who drive to and from Toronto everyday may think I'm being a pussy, but I'm not here to compare my commute.

Everyday, I leave my neighbourhood in north Waterloo, hit the Expressway to Hwy 8, cross the Grand River bridge, take 401 east and exit on the Hanlon Expy to the south end of Guelph. It's about a 48km commute that takes about 35 min on a good day. Usually the drive to work is fine, but there is always some asshole who thinks that their life is too important to drive like the rest of us that they should weave through rush hour traffic to go to wherever douche job or drug deal they have to be at. I've been in a hurry before, but never in a hurry to manoeuvre like a maniac by not signalling and cutting people off while putting others in danger. And it's always a douchebag with a BMW or Lexus who does that, you ever notice that... or a big King Kong mega douche-turd with a tricked out Honda Civic or Acura.

And another thing, since when has the "fast lane" turn into the "slow lane"??? Call me old-fashion, but the far left lane of a highway I thought was to bypass slower cars ahead of you, and if you're in the fast lane and you have someone riding on your tail with a 50 car line up behind you, you better get the fuck over! I'm too nice when I'm on the road... I should start honking my horn more and giving the finger, that usually works. Maybe I'll go to bulk barn and get a bag of gobstopper and start chucking them at cars.

Construction is a bit of a bother... more so at night than during the day, which I can live with. The Grand River bridge is being widened and there were two accidents on the bridge last week on the way to work. It's people who gawk to see the bridge construction and the road is so bumpy and windy they lose control of their vehicle and run into the median or another vehicle. People who stop and gawk at whatever, whether it be construction or an accident, annoys the fuck out of me. Don't get me wrong, I gawk all the time, but don't slow everyone behind me down. We all have that human urge to see accidents, to see only one thing... "an injured person" and we all have that dyer urge to see it (it's in our nature, it's not a sick thing). And as you slowly go by the accident scene and you see that nobody is there, you go "damn, nothing... after all of that waiting!"

Say what you want, about 90% of the time that's what drivers are thinking when they drive by accidents, I don't care what you say.

Anyway, hopefully that was inspiring and changed your life. Smell ya later.

Pat