Welcome to the farmlands of southeastern PA, where your commute to and from work is guaranteed to smell like a latrine. If you're especially lucky, you might get a wiff of rotting animal carcass tossed in the mix ( Read more... )

Driving to school this morning I had quite a shock. I came over a hill and was completely confused (at 6:15am) as to why there were two sets of headlights coming at me, one in each lane of the little two-lane road. Then I realized that the guy in my lane was passing the other guy and not doing a very quick job about it. Thankfully the dope ( Read more... )

Car-to-car chit-chat

How often have you been driving and wished you could communicate with another driver? Perhaps you'd like to give them advance warning that you intend to slow down, say thanks when they have given way or issue a gentle rebuke for some lapse of road manners on their part ( Read more... )

I was in a monstrous mood today. Heat + crazy humidity + 24 second graders + It's-Almost-Summer mentality = Kt the Bitch. I chewed out half of my boys at snack time because they were all hitting each other. Then at the end of the day one of my girls started crying because one of the boys (who I CANNOT STAND) said something to her. He wouldn't ( Read more... )

Stupid inconsiderate people went and got in an accident this afternoon, just in time for me to drive home from work. I was at work until 5pm for this math thingie that gets me credit hours towards my teaching thingie. I left at 5:05, expecting to get home around 5:45. Oh no. No no no no. After sitting in pretty much standstill traffic for 45 ( Read more... )

I see lots of dead animals on the side of the road in my daily travels. Deer, skunks, groundhogs, squirrels, raccoons, possums, birds, the occasional cat and dog. Today I saw a new addition to the "Roadkill" file in my brain ( Read more... )

I came to this conclusion ages and ages ago, but it struck me again today while driving home with the windows down and my arm out the window ( Read more... )

Monday morning: due to insane fog outside and my car windows being completely fogged up and my head not being on straight and the fact it was Monday morning, I backed into my brother's car which was parked behind me. Not a fun thing to do at 6:15am on a Monday. Thankfully I was going veryveryvery slowly and there was no damage, but what a great ( Read more... )

I was nearly squashed between a guard rail and a tractor trailer today while driving home from work. Not cool. Luckily I saw the truck's turn signal and I had just enough room to speed up as he was coming over and I got out of his way. I hate driving anywhere near those things ( Read more... )

It was pretty darn foggy this morning in places. Lucky me, I got stuck behind the guy who apparently can't see, despite the fact that the road we were on wasn't all that bad. The speed limit was 45 but he insisted on keeping below 35. You should've seen the line of traffic behind him. Annoying way to start my day. It took all I had not to lay ( Read more... )