why do i leave the house

so i really wanted a sausage, egg, and cheese mcmuffin, but unfortunately mcdonalds breakfast only goes until 1030 these days. luckily, dunkin donuts serves breakfast all day. so i get into the car and drive around the block, only to find traffic backed up an entire block at this one light. it makes sense, cuz the light on that street is terribly short for the amount of traffic constantly on it. but i dont expect more, cuz i'm in [this state].

after the first light, i try to let this other guy coming from the weis market in, and wave to him when its safe for him to cross thru and take his left turn. but he sits there. i wave more. sitting...so finally, the second light comes and i slowly move up in the ever-optimistic hope i'll make it. the guy gives me a dirty look. bite me, sir, i tried. you're incompetent.

so i sit thru the first 2 lights, then right before the third one came, a semi tried to turn down the road i was coming from. now, this is a 2 lane road, except that the direction i'm going has 2 turning lanes just at the main intersection. narrow lanes at that. further, the truck is from dollar general, and turning down this road goes further from both dollar general and the interstate. so maybe he was just taking a nice ride around my crappy city. i dont know.

so of course, since there's traffic waiting at the light, the semi cannot complete the turn. so what does he do? he sits there. right in the middle of the intersection. sits. my left turn lane all tries to back up a little to actually help this shmuck, but we're backed up the whole block again, so that doesnt work. so he just sits. finally, when traffic in the right lane clears, we all go around and take left turns from there.

luckily, dunkin donuts was fabulous as usual, and that made things mostly better.