Riverside Construction.....Aaaaaaah!

Tonight was a great night at church until I left. Let me tell you a story...

I got into my Honda a drove off to In & Out Burger. I ordered my food, they prepared it and gave it to me. I then took off for home and deicided to go the way I always go. It's quick and easy and the most direct route home... or so I thought. I got to one section of my drive and said to myself, "Oh yeah, they're doing construction on this street and the next one, oh well it won't be that bad!" So as I'm grooving along to some sweet tunes on Star 98.7 I all of the sudden come to a complete stop becasue the dork in front of me and the one on front of him can't merge into one lane. Finally we start moving again and the left lane opens up again, but only for about 100 feet then more arrows telling us to get over again. Okay I must stop here to say... Why don't they just section the entire left lane off and not open it till later when there is nothing left to section off? Anyway, I am then ready to turn right onto the main street I take home (this one has eighteen times more construction on it) and about half way up the street the left lane is being worked on again. I being the smart Riverside driver that I am know that the left lane will likely be closed and remain in the right lane, but other do not and must get over. Now, I hate traffic, but I do think the proper merging technique in traffic is to for each right lane car to let in one left lane car. But no, this is not how everyonr thinks. The car in fron of me is staying right up on the butt of the bus in front of him, so I must now let two cars in. Just not right! As I'm driving along at 2 mph I can smell the delicious cheeseburger sitting next to me and just as I begin to drool the lanes open up and I am flying now at 50 mph when once again I see brake lights. This time there is no construction just people who don't know how to drive on the open road. I finally make it home after 30 minuts of being on the road. Not fun. It has been proven that it takes about 13 minutes to get from my church to my house and if I was at In & Out Burger it should have been more like 10 minutes.

(In the middle of writing this I had to go and deal with something, I am now back).

All in all, if you plan on visiting the beautiful land of Riverside in the near future... don't! Come in January when most of the construction will be done!!