This morning was the first normal commute all week, and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have had appointments near my home early in the morning all week. As a result, I have been coming in to work later and have had to take I-95 to the dreaded DC Beltway to get into the office.
Honestly, I don't know why people drive the Beltway at rush hour every day. Why do they find standstill traffic and a 50% longer commute acceptable? I don't and never have. I have been stressed out all week because of traffic, and I've burned a lot of $4/gallon gas just crawling along at 2 mph for miles.
So rather than sleeping in and having to deal with the worst traffic in the country, I come in really early, I leave early and I take surface streets to avoid the Beltway. It's not perfect--I still have a long commute and I still have to spend plenty of time sitting at stop lights and pondering the societal implications of unkempt median strips--but it's far better than the alternative. I know which lane to be in at every point on the trip. I know where all the speed cameras are and so does everyone else. There's a predictable flow to the traffic. Everything has a rhythm. It just feels right and finally today, so do I.
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