So as I was driving down 84 getting off the exit, the cars in front of me stop abruptly and I did as well….as I am stopping, I get thrusted forward and the inevitable happened.

 Someone hit the back of my car.

Lucky for me, there was no damage…. I jotted down his information and we went on our way.  I had a false positive of thinking that my tired went flat…thankfully it was not!

All in all, if that is my worst accident, I will be happy….

Well I honestly can say that I do not miss taking the train to work.  I took a train into work today because my wife is going to pick me up at 1 pm to take me to my parents house in NJ.  Here is how the commute went this morning.

1. Wake up at 5 :30 AM

2. Leave the house at 6:05 AM

3. Walk to train station arrival at 6:17 AM

4. Board Train 6:23 AM

5. Get off at Stanford 7:20 AM

6. Find out I missed transfer train to Greenwich 7:23 AM

7. Drank warm soda from vending machine 7:30 AM

8. Boarded transfer train at 7:42 AM

9. Arrived at Greenwich 7:59 AM

10. Walked 1.5 miles to office 8:17 AM

11. Do nothing until 8:49 AM (writting blog….pay attention)

That is my commute with the train….for fun, compare it to the commute with driving.

1. Wake up at 6 AM

2. Watch TV from 6:20 AM to 7 AM

3. Get breakfast 7:08 AM

4. Enjoy traffic….lots of traffic 7:20-8:25 AM

5. Arrive at office 8:35 AM

Now here are the pros and cons of taking the train.

Pros – cheaper.  It cost me 5 dollars one way.  A monthly pass would be 94 dollars.  Driving you have the cost of gas (38 dollars twice a week)  maintenance on the car – oil change and what not…

Cons – it takes too long and I need the flexibility of having a car to make it to my other offices.  If there is an emergency, I have to be able to get to office B or office C and so on.  I also get home too late.  I would get home the same time if I got home working in NYC.  I might as well work in NYC then and make an extra 10k to cover the difference….

(I took a 6k price cut to work in CT as opposed to NYC…)

I love doing this to people when driving.  I am in the left hand lane and I like to give myself some room between the car in front of me and myself.  I give about 2 to 3 car lengths.  Other drivers hate this since they feel that THEY can be the 2 or 3 car lengths that I provide to myself.  I hate it when people pass me, so this is what I do.

As the car behind me tries to go around me, I speed up as well closing the gap between myself and the car in front of me.  The car trying to go around me hits a road block (another car in another lane) and it makes it impossible to pass me.  To top it off, if done with enough traffic, the second car is unable to get back into the left lane leaving him a few car lengths back.

I did this to one truck and he ended up at least 10 car lengths behind me.  The funny thing is, a 1/2 an hour later, the truck DID end up passing me.  I got the humor out of it at least…

So I thought driving is bad.  My parking garage is much worse. 

There are turns that lead to dead ends. 

There are turns that lead to the wrong way on one way roads. 

There are turns that lead to blockade of cars.

It is the worst parking garage that I have ever had to deal with.  Normally I arrive at 8:30 and I can park right in front.  Today, due to me going to another office first, I had to park in the lower levels of HELL!  I am not even sure where I parked so now I will have to wander around the parking lot like a crazy person going…car…car…come out come out wherever you are!

This distinctly reminds me of a Seinfeld EP….

I just still do not understand traffic.  We sit in it all day and it is due to our idiotcy that it exsists in the first place.  If we were calm and collected while driving, the cars will all flow.  Since we are not, we bob and weave in an out of lanes causing traffic!  It really irritates me when traffic is not caused my an accident.  It irritates me even more when traffic is caused my a moron who is pulled over in the fast lane because they needed a break from driving!

 DAMNED 684….this happens at least once a week causing much un-needed delays!

Well today started off like a normal day.  I drive through the downtown of danbury, then get on 84.  As I am driving down 84 to get onto 684, some person verred off into the grass and their car was smoking and everything.  A bounch of people were being nice and stopping ans such…which kinda pissed me off because they were blocking my exit…

 I have no problem with people helping for the good of humanity but DO NOT BLOCK THE EXIT DAMNIT!

Well I make it onto 684 and about 5 miles into the ride, my GPS informs me that I will see 28 miles of traffic in my future…FUCK

GPS, in its infinate wisdom beeped back at me saying that it will take care of me.  It gets me off the next exit and we go down these windy roads with no end in site…finally it doubles me back to 684 about 10 miles down from where the traffic was.  GREAT!  No 28 minutes of traffic on 684.

 As I get to 287,  my little GPS chimes in, DO NOT GET ON 287….YOU WILL DIE!  How can I refuse living or dying so I listened to the little device again.  It brought me to highways I wish to never know the name of again…only to send me to an exit that is CLOSED!  The little bastard is playing with me now.  I get off the next exit and then all is good in the world.

 Needless to say, the commute was interesting this time around.  I hope that it is a straight shot on the way back because I only have a 1/4 of a tank of gas left…..

For your information, I drive about an hour to get to work.  This dirving is mostly highway driving.  At this point, that is when I realized that cars really hate you.  I don’t understand what causes people to stop on a highway.  There is no accident.  There is no problem.  Someone decided to stop and cause a 10 minute traffic delay.  Do people forget how to drive?  I just don’t understand.  Oh well…just remember, cars hate you!