If you're stuck in traffic and you know it, honk your horn!

Traffic bites. It really does. Today was one of the worst days for traffic that I've endured in a long while. It all started with a phone call this morning at 6:50 to tell me that one member of our carpool wouldn't be coming. Now, did you want to go in later and miss the traffic (smarter idea) or go try and sit through regular rush hour. Well...with a meeting at 9:30 that I thought I needed to be at (see below for further revelation on THAT score) I said we needed to leave now and suck it up without the carpool lanes. So...at my last job where I drove myself during peak rush every day, I could leave my house at 7:30 and be there at 8:30 - with very little difficulty, just a bit of annoyance because of a regular 1 hour commute. So I figured leaving at 7:05 we should for sure be at work (a little farther north than my last job) by 8:30, maybe 8:40.

It took an hour to go 2 miles.

Long, grueling story short...2.5 hours or just over. So we squeak in at 9:38 and I rush to get to this meeting which, thankfully is just starting because EVERYBODY was stuck in traffic. And I pull my chair into the conference room and get these looks from people. I'm thinking, "What? Do I not have pants on?" and so I kind of catch the eye of the person who wanted me at the meeting and quirk a brow and she indicates with a shrug that the room is full. So...I wander back out and wonder what the heck I sat through TWO AND A HALF FREAKING HOURS of traffic for. All for the lovely end effect of not being able to leave until 5:30 (gee...if we'd left at 9, we wouldn't have been able to leave til 6, big savings there.) I'm so annoyed I could just scream. I now understand road rage with more clarity than I ever really wanted to experience.