Ride with me if you will, through the gauntlet that you, YES YOU the other upstate drivers laid out in front of me this morning for my drive to work!      While backing out of my driveway a person was stopped right in front of it, looking at something on the other side of the street. Guess they couldn’t see me or for that matter hear my horn since I had to get out of my car and ask them to move. At the end of my neighborhood there is an unusual 5 way stop. And as I watched the 4 other cars do this kind of nervous twitch go-stop-go-stop move, I looked down at my watch and realized it had just took me 5 minute to get out of the neighborhood. After two more herky jerky 4 way stops I come to a railroad crossing that today is under repair….right where I need to cross. I don’t know what’s wrong for like 20 minutes because the line to the intersection is so long. After getting turned around I try to find another way across the tracks and decide to use the little tunnel that goes under the track about a block or two down the track…OOPS, seems everyone else new about that way too. I was stuck trying to get through the single lane tunnel for another 15 minutes..OOPS.     Crap now I’m low on gas and I have to stop for gas, I’m zooming down the local highway towards a gas station with decent prices before I run out, a Jack ass in a little red pickup pulls out in front of me! I slam on the brakes thinking it was about ditch time cause I couldn’t swerve to my left since the Semi Truck I had been following a few miles back that was in the left lane going only 40 was now coming up on my side. After pulling up to the next light and letting the A**Hole know how much I appreciated his stupidity, after waiting in line at the gas station for the guy ahead of me in line to look at all the scratch off games before deciding not even buy one and after having yet another big truck pull out in front of me and once again block the left lane so no one can get past him, I realized I better try the southern connector to work to make up some time. Yes it was going to cost me a few bucks but damn I need to make that time up, plus I had the correct change to use the fast lane at the booths… OOPS! As I entered to freeway behind a dump truck going less than 30 miles an hour and racing up to the first toll booth, SURPRISE! There in the exact change lane was another 18 wheeler, trying to back up, cause I guess he just knew I was coming, and in a hurry! Ok fine, I’m now only one toll booth and about 8 miles to work. Last stop, the toll booth. I’ve got that correct change again and I’ll just get in that lane and… OOPS! What’s this? Cones? Men working on the coin catcher? ARE YOU ****ING KIDDING ME???       So here I am, at work, almost an hour late but glad to report that No humans or animals were injured or killed in the making of this blog….YET!

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