Top 10 ways you can tell if someone has too long a commute

Here are the top 10 ways you can tell if someone has too long a commute

• They have frequent deep indents on their noses made by their sunglasses
• They know all the latest news of the day (listening to radio all morning)
• Every time you call them up on the weekends they are always getting an oil change
• They know the latest gas prices, and know where to get the lower price on gas
• Their left arm tan is much darker than their right arm
• They are usually early to work, school, etc because these people usually plan more than enough time to get to their destination.
• Hate driving during the weekends to anywhere
• Blogs about their daily drive (i.e. freewaystories.com)
• Obsessed about mileage
• Have sigalert.com or similar sites bookmarked.

Well. There you have it. Let me know your ways of spotting a long distance commuter.

Daylight Saving = Darkness = People cannot drive

Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the Winter is always good because you gain an hour, but DST in the Winter for commuters in the West Coast is always negative. Ever since daylight saving started on Sunday Nov. 4th 2007, the traffic coming back from work have just about doubled. Reason? I believe it’s because the sun goes down at an earlier time.

For some reason people drive a lot slower in the dark, with more accidents, and more people going home at the same time. Hopefully people get used to the darkness and start driving normally again in the coming months because this is starting to drive me nuts (no pun intended).

I hope that everyone else is taking it better than me. Here is a message to everyone driving in the dark: “JUST DRIVE NORMALLY!”

Freeway Gods

Every commuter one time or another will think about this in their heads, “Somebody up there must be messing with me right now!”. Some familiar situations are:

• Thinking “Out of all days, why does it have to happen today!”
• Thinking “Great….I am finally early today and this happens, sigh….I just can’t win…”
• Thinking your lane is too slow, so you switch lanes. After you switch lanes your old lanes zooms by you and you just sit there on your new lane pissed off.

So there must be some Freeway Gods up there right!? Messing with us and having a laugh. I think about this probably once every other day when commuting. The truth is, changing lanes and speeding can only get you faster to your work maybe 10-15 minutes. Many times I think its not even worth doing anymore, so I just stick with one lane all the way like a lemming.