Personality

Personality
I leave fairly early to avoid the major traffic jams and keep the commute time as short as possible. I come back around 5:30pm and thus meet the inevitable congestion in Stamford, CT. The two commutes have two very different personalities.

In the morning, the traffic is fast and unless there has been an unintended meeting of two or more moving objects, then traffic jams are not an issue. Even the State Troopers appreciate that this is our time and during these times, they choose to "manage us" and let us keep the pace rolling. For some strange reason the traffic in the morning has a real aversion to using the right hand lane, preferring the center and left hand lanes. Trucks and cars both stay away from the right hand lane. However, I feel virtuous driving in it, enticing others to come over and join me.

The evening traffic is different, basically there is much more of it. It is much slower and you must relax or you will drive yourself crazy with the way it moves. No one knows why three cars going the same speed manage to block all three lanes simultaneously. It just happens. Does Drivers Ed teach you that? If you wait, eventually, one of them will break formation and the traffic will break through. Then, you are free...until you get to the next slow down.