PeoplesElbow
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So how was traffic today? Friend told me PAX is short about 2000 seats and they put a rando in our spare cube away from everyone else he works with, sounds like a great way for his supervisor to keep track of him.
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I left at 6 and it took about an extra 20 minutes.
glhs837
Power with Control
I get to stay home til my immediate boss fights for me seat. I do like the synergy a couple days a week. But yesterday, wife and I needed to run into downtown Lexington Park so I took 5 north to GMR about 5:15pm. Damn, GMR was stacked back to the charter school. Texted our work chat, one of the civil servants who lives off off Flat Iron responded that he had just hit the charter school. "Need to work til six, I guess, FML"
I left home at 5:40 this morning. At my desk 6:20.
It took me twenty minutes JUST TO GET OUT OF THE PARKING GARAGE.
Almost two hours getting home. And we're still not at full capacity yet.
OccamsRazor
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Do you work out of an office in DC? You mentioned several times that you DO NOT work out of PAX so, a 2 hour commute home isn't uncommon.
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glhs837
Power with Control
And before? My commute is about 7 miles house to desk and usually takes between 14 and 20 minutes.
Yes, but the normal drive home is just under an hour and 1 minutes - done it several times since they began sending us back up north.
Now, it's everyone. And I suspect there aren't any carpools or many using the commuter buses just yet.
20
20 minutes.
That actually makes sense, since people tend to LEAVE work at around the same time, even if they have staggered arrival times.
I suspect if this persists - I may have to go commuter bus because although it's slower - it's less aggravating. I saw more crazy crap yesterday than I have seen in years. Going IN, I had some lunatic ZOOM past me on the shoulder near Bryantown Road - make a brief "right" and then spun backward onto the northbound ramp to go ahead of the rest of us slobs stuck at the light.
That was one of the milder cases.
OccamsRazor
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I see people doing this kind of stuff weekly down here
Yeah - but I don't typically drive alongside that MANY for hours at a time. I do see worse, in Baltimore.
I'm teaching my daughter to anticipate crazy driving behavior. I tell her not to be paranoid - but always be prepared.
It's not one of the number one killers of youth, for nothing.
glhs837
Power with Control
I mean, I see crazy stuff in St Marys but holy hell, even as a Boston raised driver, the stuff up in Charles and PG off the friken hook.
Did the same for my kids. Taught them the Way of the Rider. Always be ready for them to do anything. Not just squirrel random, but Agent Smith actively inimical. Sounds like a lot of stress and work, but after a while it becomes a background process.
I used to drive in Boston years ago - and I gave a lot worse than I got. Still - I had scrape marks from coming through the Callahan "Funnel". Saw bumpers on cars lock - raced down Mass Ave dodging in and out of parking spaces - and I was a master of the "Boston Bump" (that's the one where you parallel park between two cars, bumping them back and forth until your car fits in between).
But in Boston, they drive that way because they're bastards - here, they do it because they're freakin' stupid.
glhs837
Power with Control
That's
Told the wife years ago that Mass traffic worked because it was easy to predict what someone would do. Whatever the most ******* was.
Told the wife years ago that Mass traffic worked because it was easy to predict what someone would do. Whatever the most ******* was.
PeoplesElbow
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Monday Telework Over
Tuesday, go home and telework, its going to snow.
Tuesday, go home and telework, its going to snow.
My commute from Rockville to National Harbor in the evenings was 80 to 120 minuets ... a good day was 70 min.
Problems getting to the American Legion Bridge, past 66, then RT 50 ... past 95 and finally across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge
Sometimes faster going down the GW Parkway then getting past 14th St Bridge and through Alex to the WW Bridge Again