As in not the one where someone presidential does it to a sentence (not the casually written kind but one for a bad dude or dudette stuck in the slammer).
After those two digressions I am refering to the American pet peeve kind.
As in the one that one encounters going to and fro repeatedly between 2 points or multiple points if that is the point.
So what of it you ask?
Well I began observing the characteristics of said activity during my own. Very worldly experience and all.
1. Work Related - While many Americans will multi task and drive all different ways on their landscape called 'the freeway' (you are free to do what you like), they exhibit a peculiar characteristic when driving 'To' work as compared to driving 'From' work (to that place where they derive more pleasure). That difference is one of eagerness to get to the destination. Going 'To' work the traffic tends to drive at posted limits and seems much well mannered for the most part. AFter all what's the rush - logging in to the corporate network?, cranking out those burgers?, injecting needles in patients?, cranking up a car on a jack that needs jacking up? All that can wait a few more min. After all on the next conf call - 'Sorry guys - traffic was a B*$%%' can oft be heard as a pardonable excuse.
Now compare to that going home or another uplifting location and you see all manners of tricks on 4 wheels (or more if one is so endowed). People are belting it. Good reason - that lager awaits.
2. Get out of Town commute - This happens when a major holiday event threatens the freeway system with promised gridlock - here too people are finding ways to get going PDQ. Who wants to be stuck behind that 18 wheeler with hay bales or organisms that eat the hay?
3. Small town vs. big town commutes - Large metros have a way of spewing out traffic at all odd hours since there are commuters always going from one location to another and there we see frustrated drivers just wanting to end their ordeal at the soonest.
Small towns showcase a leisurely driving style since there is not a reason to hurry and get anywhere.
All in all if you don't have to get on the road - don't.
Which brings us to another aspect of the Commute - where one uses a form of body part called hind legs to conduct oneself from one point to another. Not much of that going on I tell you.
There are of course other ways like using public transport. This happens to be noticable in metros with good functioning systems to handle crowds and deposit them safely and without too much BO to their destination.
Some countries like India have made an art form of it - defying the very laws of physics they are showing how a rail based transport as in commuter train can take 400% of capacity between 2 locations (some do not make it but what the heck).
After those two digressions I am refering to the American pet peeve kind.
As in the one that one encounters going to and fro repeatedly between 2 points or multiple points if that is the point.
So what of it you ask?
Well I began observing the characteristics of said activity during my own. Very worldly experience and all.
1. Work Related - While many Americans will multi task and drive all different ways on their landscape called 'the freeway' (you are free to do what you like), they exhibit a peculiar characteristic when driving 'To' work as compared to driving 'From' work (to that place where they derive more pleasure). That difference is one of eagerness to get to the destination. Going 'To' work the traffic tends to drive at posted limits and seems much well mannered for the most part. AFter all what's the rush - logging in to the corporate network?, cranking out those burgers?, injecting needles in patients?, cranking up a car on a jack that needs jacking up? All that can wait a few more min. After all on the next conf call - 'Sorry guys - traffic was a B*$%%' can oft be heard as a pardonable excuse.
Now compare to that going home or another uplifting location and you see all manners of tricks on 4 wheels (or more if one is so endowed). People are belting it. Good reason - that lager awaits.
2. Get out of Town commute - This happens when a major holiday event threatens the freeway system with promised gridlock - here too people are finding ways to get going PDQ. Who wants to be stuck behind that 18 wheeler with hay bales or organisms that eat the hay?
3. Small town vs. big town commutes - Large metros have a way of spewing out traffic at all odd hours since there are commuters always going from one location to another and there we see frustrated drivers just wanting to end their ordeal at the soonest.
Small towns showcase a leisurely driving style since there is not a reason to hurry and get anywhere.
All in all if you don't have to get on the road - don't.
Which brings us to another aspect of the Commute - where one uses a form of body part called hind legs to conduct oneself from one point to another. Not much of that going on I tell you.
There are of course other ways like using public transport. This happens to be noticable in metros with good functioning systems to handle crowds and deposit them safely and without too much BO to their destination.
Some countries like India have made an art form of it - defying the very laws of physics they are showing how a rail based transport as in commuter train can take 400% of capacity between 2 locations (some do not make it but what the heck).
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