Damn Dirty Hippies!
So I was feeling pretty groovy this morning because I got up and out the door on time. I cruised into DC via my regular route and was about 15 minutes from my office when disaster struck. The traffic came to a stand still and basically didn't move at all. This is very unusual. The traffic in DC is worse some times more than others but it always moves. After 20 minutes of trying to turn and move down 18th Street to my office when I see that the traffic is being diverted. I immediately panicked as I am not familiar with the city and know exactly two ways to get to and from my office, and one of those ways is from MD!! I knew I was close and in what direction I had to go in so I tried to calm myself down and think of an alternate route.
This would have been fine had only 1 street been closed off. But no it was several streets, all of them leading to my office! I started to get very pissed, and as the precious minutes ticked by and I inched and sat in traffic I got even madder. I finally called my office at 8:45 am and told them I as stuck in traffic and I didn¹t know when I would be in. I finally arrived at 10:15!! Over two and a half hours after I was supposed to be at work.
I didn¹t know what was going on, I assumed it was massive ill-timed construction, but whatever it was it was huge. It wasn't until I got to my office that I discovered the reason for the delays was due to the damn dirty hippies that come to DC every year to protest the IMF and World bank meetings.!! It cracks me up how these people are protesting for human rights and yet they are impacting THOUSANDS of innocent commuters by having their volatile little demonstrations.
I am all for free speech and I agree that the IMF and World Bank are not doing third world countries any favors but God damn it that is no reason to close off streets and block traffic up! Because of these selfish little snots I didn't get home until 10 pm!! And why is that? Because with the streets being blocked off I have to take an alternate route home that will take me 5 times longer than my normally direct route home. To ad insult to injury I also had to hang around the city until almost 8 pm so that I wouldn't have to sit in hours of traffic but the route I had to take home is 5 times longer than the standard route anyway! Plus because I got into the parking garage after 10 am I had to pay the full parking fee instead of the early bird special.
I am mad enough to kill. It was a blessing I didn't see any of those little fuckers on the street cause I seriously would have throttled them until they were unconscious! Which reminds me, this stupid college student from Massachusetts backed into me with her car while I was stuck in traffic this morning! This dumb ass cow (yes she was blonde) was letting people get in front of her. Mind you it was bumper-to-bumper traffic and nobody could move and every street was clogged. I was screaming I was so pissed off. And then she attempts to drive forward and rolls into my front license plate because she has a goddamn stick shift!!! She didn't stop or get out of the car and I certainly wasn't going to add to the traffic by getting out. I just screamed at her out of the window and gave her the death glare and showered down on the horn. Come to think of it she was probably one of those filthy little protestors!
I like how one of my coworkers described his distaste for the protestors, "Go take a shower and get out of my commute!"
