When I was doing my last gig, it was in the western burbs of Chicago. I live about 60 miles outside of Chicago and had to commute in about 40 miles to get to work. The worst part of that is the State Route that I have to take to get up to the interstate. It's about 10 miles or so and takes me, time wise, 1/2 of my commute (for a total of about an hour...so 10 miles of highway takes 30 mins and 30 miles of interstate also takes 30 mins). This is a 2 lane highway that has a lot of semi traffic and it has a lot of lights, so rarely does the traffic get near the speed limit as it takes a a long time for a loaded semi to get up to speed. Once I am on the interstate, it is pretty smooth sailing, with the occasional asshat doing 55 in the far left lane while everyone else is trying to do 80. If I get up behind a slow poke, I flash my lights a few times and then honk the horn if they don't seem to get the message. After that I call the state police and report them as there is a law in IL that slower drivers have to give up the lane to faster traffic. While it is true I am breaking the law by going over the speed limit, they are also breaking the law and posing a greater hazard to drivers because they are driving slower than the rest of traffic. It does get real frustrating when you have to slow down because some rude person that is going slow is refusing to give up the lane.
------------------------------------ Three Ravens Consulting Eric Roberts Owner/Developer ow...@threeravensconsulting.com tel: 630-486-5255 http://www.threeravensconsulting.com ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:04 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Want to REALLY stretch the brain? On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:43 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > So when you are driving home from work, how do you know where the > offensive people will be so you can avoid them? > Well, I don't live out in the suburbs where people sit on the road for hours commuting and getting road rage. Honestly, I notice a huge difference in drivers intown. ...but no you can't choose every person you interact with. But to the extent that you can (which you also can choose on this list) I do make that decision daily. > I ask because most of the assholes I meet each day are on the > road.....talking on their goddamn cell phones instead of staying in > their lanes. I'd love a method for avoiding these people. Yeah - like I said I don't really spend that much time on the freeway or in the car. I still run into these people but I have made life choices that avoid that when possible. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353336 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
