Why I Am Frequently Pissed Off

[jvowles]

Thank goodness there was coffee this morning.

It took me 1 hour and 50 minutes to get to work -- that's NOT counting the 4 minutes it took me to stop fo donuts for the meeting.

Comments

[kutariprime]

It takes me 1.5 hours every morning to get to work

In the evening it takes me 2.25 to get home. (on a good day)

Praise be the donut and coffee!

[jvowles]

Yes, and I've done that sort of commute before -- and I'm here to tell you, i'd prefer a 1.5-hr commute where an hour of it is on the subway. I used to get a lot of reading done that way.

Sitting in stop-and-go traffic, wondering why you aren't moving because traffic updates NEVER include the route you're on, SUCKS. It's utterly wasted time.

[robin_greenwood]

I seem to recall hearing on the news recently that Americans spend, on average, the equivalent of 20 work days a year -- an entire month -- stuck in traffic. And the amount of carbon that goes into the atmosphere from that 20-day traffic jam hardly bears thinking about.

I humbly apologize, Seamus... I had been grousing to myself because my commute has gone up from 10 to about 20-25 minutes. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa...