remember that scene in (I think it was) Breakfast Club? Where the clock actually ticks BACKWARDS as the captive students wait to get out? That was my trip to the gym.
I packed up TheBaby, left myself just enough time to get him checked in at the nursery so that I could take a much-needed moment to myself to take a yoga class.
I'm at the only light between me and the gym...waiting. I have passed the long line of traffic in the turning lane, going straight ahead is the easiest path of the intersection...or so I thought.
Eventually I realize that everyone has moved but our lane. I watch another cycle and see that the lights change in order...but they always skip MY lane!! Isnt this just the way it goes? I sit there -watching the lights change- as I missed my yoga class. Shit!
The #2 car in line FINALLY gets out to ask the #1 car to move forward...either turn right, PLEASE TURN RIGHT so we can all go along our way...or move forward so we can get out while you wait for the impossible. Car #1 moves forward (optimist!), car #2 escapes...and car #3 (the one directly in front of me) then pulls up, and STOPS!
People are slow in this town...I know this. They are the pigeons that will sit at this light FOREVER, being law-abiding and certainly not revising a plan for the sake of the obvious.
Now I'm stuck behind the second dolt of the line...and I cant escape. At what must have been the 5th or 6th series of light changes without letting our lane progress, I start to lose patience.
Another thing about folks here...they do not honk their horns. It is not Southern Hospitality...even when it is sane.
But I'm a Yankee...and I give a polite honk.
Of course, it is completely disregarded, and the dolts stand their ground. Now, not only am I missing yoga, but I'm courting a very pissed off (bored) baby in my back seat.
I honk again, and point at the light. These folks are stupid, patient, and seemingly BLIND as well. No movement.
I'm back there gesticulating, swearing, calming a baby...ready to get out of my car. And wouldnt you know it...the light turns green.
Now I'm moving AND I look like a fool to all these idiots who think I simply lacked patience...
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