Have you ever found yourself on the road, making great time, minding your own business, and then WHAM you’re stuck in someone else’s traffic jam?
Last week I went up skiing, which was awesome, but got myself caught in the middle of Sacramento’s evening rush hour on the way home. Aside from Sacramento, I’ve been the victim of other people’s traffic in Portland, Santa Rosa, and LA. Other people’s traffic is far more frustrating than your own traffic for a couple reasons.
- You don’t know the typical traffic patterns, so you have no idea where it is likely to break up, or if it is “normally” this bad.
- You don’t want to go where these people are going. You’re just passing through. In fact, if they’d just let you pass, you’d be out of their way.
Traffic you encounter on your daily commute is frustrating, but tolerable, because it is expected and predictable. Other people’s traffic is traffic you have no business being in, unexpected and unpredictable. You are an innocent bystander graciously using these other people’s roads when all of a sudden they swarm you.
It’s the tax levied by the good people of Sacramento: if you’re going to go skiing on a Thursday when the rest of us are working, you’re going to pay for it on the way home.
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Glad you had some good skiing. Playing hooky tomorrow morning with Jeff to hit the new snow at Alpental