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I spent 1.5 hours driving the 9 miles to work this morning because some fucktard in a ship needed the fore river bridge opened during rush hour.
While I was sitting in heavy traffic approaching a merge, the contact in my right eye decided that it had had enough and leaped out of my eye, presumably because the wind could’ve carried it to work faster than I was moving.
I tried unsuccessfully to put it back in a couple of times before deciding to be safe and pull off the road to take care of it. The particular stretch of road that I was on had a median to prevent turning around, there were no auxiliary roads connected to it, and traffic had moved a mere 8 feet in the five minutes that it took me to get the contact in.
Now, when I tried to pull back in, you’d think that one of the cars would let me back into the clogged traffic right? It was obvious that I wasn’t trying to pull a dick move like cutting through a parking lot to get a few cars ahead or something. I was actually trying to pull in a few cars behind where I had been.
So you’d think they’d let me in right? No. No, they didn’t. Ever get to the point where you just starting uncontrollably blurting out random explicatives? That’s always fun, isn’t it? I think I said, “Fuckin’ cock nobber ass shit pole frig neck fuck.” really loud before regaining what little sanity I had stored away for days like this.
Ugh.
I finally got let in by someone else who realizes that merges aren’t competitions, and jockeying for position in heavy traffic is pointless. I finally made it to work, thinking that I could put the whole thing behind me. If I didn’t get a good annual review and have another CD for the CD challenge dropped on my desk today, there’s no telling what pseudo swears I would’ve come up with.
Then, on the way home, the bridge opened again, costing me another hour and a half. 1 day. 18 miles. 3 hours. 6 MPH.
You’d think there would be a law against opening a bridge on a major artery during rush hour. There are 16 hours that are not rush hour, so why do we accept that a single ship should be allowed to inconvenience a few thousand people? Shouldn’t the majority rule? Bah ha ha. I know. I’m a fool. Puny humans.
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December 9th, 2005 at 8:50 am
Time to move to Quincy! No bridges to fuck up your commute here…
December 9th, 2005 at 9:21 pm
I.FEEL.YOUR.PAIN……fucking boats, fucking snow, fucking fuck fuck.
December 10th, 2005 at 2:20 am
do you actually see something going through? here in portland we have 7 bridges (i think) separating the city and sometimes they open the bridges just for fun. or perhaps to “test” them to make sure they are working. i’ve sat on my bike on a bridge waiting for it to open and close and the only thing that goes under is a jet-ski!! now that would piss you off. write a letter to the editor of the patriot ledger or the globe or something.
December 11th, 2005 at 3:57 am
you are an adult with the right to choose where to live and where to work. If you don’t like snow/cold move south. If you don’t like high price property move south. If you don’t like boat traffic move inland. Get it. It’s you own figgin fault so turn off you mind in traffic turn up The Haunted and drift away to a happy place somewhere inland and south of where you are.
December 11th, 2005 at 10:29 pm
Wow. A rant. For me. Yay. Thanks.
December 17th, 2005 at 10:51 am
I happen to agree with you on the timing of the bridge opening BUT you do know they do post when the bridge will be open in the paper AND there actually are alternative routes out of Hull…
January 10th, 2006 at 10:48 am
I agree 100%- I have been caught in the same situation many times LATELY. They used to post the openings, but don’t do so anymore. It does seem to have something to do with getting tankers in and out on the tide.
Today I got lucky and heard on the radio that it was opening in 5 minutes, so I cut over and went through the landing.
If they would just post the openings accurately, we could at least have the option of avoiding it.
February 4th, 2010 at 1:10 am
Construction of the New Draw Bridge is expected to Start in Spring 2011 and is expected to Take 4 Years to Construct.
The New Draw Bridge is Expected to be 75 Feet Higher than the Existing Bridge which will Cause Less Bridge Openings and Less Traffic Jams.