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Blog Entry 102 of 190 From the mountains to 6th Avenue

Many Evergreeners commute. It's been described as a commuter community. Accurate. So there is an etiquette to commuting. The first rule: Leave early. Even if you depart for a 9 to five job at 6:30 a.m., you will not be alone. If you like being alone on the highway, go to Montana. The second rule: Leave early If you don't get off til 5 p.m., take a book on tape, because you will be sitting in traffic near Federal and 6th, and entertainment of any kind is helpful. There are polite drivers, like me, who let others sneak in, especially in merge lanes. I try. You probably do too. The one thing I have decided that will not happen to me is that I will not be mangled in a car wreck on 6th Avenue or I-70 in either direction. What do you do to keep this promise to yourself?

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Contributed by: Karen Groves/YourHub.com on 11/30/2006

Oh, big deal it snowed a little Nov. 29.

However, it was just enough to create a vehicle shifting arrangement at my house. I took the bus, no problem, but it meant someone had to take me to the bus stop and pick me up.

No problem.
So my favorite chef drives my firstborn's car because the chef doesn't have far to go. At the dinner table my favorite chef proclaims (in slightly different phraseology), "That car is a piece of work. It took me a half hour to get it out of the driveway!"

"Yeah," says firstborn. "It doesn't handle very well in the snow."

"Well," I pipe in, "I need my car tomorrow."

A short silence ensues.

I know we're all thinking the same thing, but nobody says anything. Yet.

We're all thinking, firstborn should drive the truck to work, favorite chef can drive the piece of work, and the princess will do whatever she wants, which is to drive her own car.

Finally, the favorite chef says to firstborn, "You better drive my car."

All this time, I have not intervened, and . . . poof, my preferred outcome has blossomed.

The problem with the snow on one day is the rush hour traffic and weird driving behavior the next day.

I guess we all do the best we can. When my family makes fun of my driving skills, I say, "Hey, I learned to drive in L.A."

It never has the full impact that I want, but I say it anyway.

So rush hour the next morning is icy, it's dark, it's packed it's slippery. But we go on.

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Submitted By: Charmaine Robledo

posted on 12/1/2006 @ 10:53:02 AM

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Karen, I am always amazed with your daily commute and that you manage to get to work in one piece and on time. Me? Fashionably late and frazzled as hell.

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