Jealous Pangs

Patience is a virtue. That's the lesson learned from today's commute. 

But, having enough gas in your tank is also necessary. Especially when embarking on an unpredictable commute. And I did not. Or at least I was worrying that I didn't. And waiting in line at the slug lot where there were about four cars in front of me also going to Crystal City (CC). 

After realizing I'd have to wait a little while because of the other CC cars, I decided to try the other slug lot nearby because I didn't have much gas left. I figured there might be less cars there because it's a smaller lot and I would just take some slugs to the Pentagon instead. I got over to the other lot, and there were there cars and no people. I waited for about five minutes and only one person came up. After 8am, that lot is pretty slow. I finally caved and decided to get gas and just stick it out on 395 solo. 

Parts of 395 weren't bad, but there was a lot of bottlenecks and congestion where there was merging going on. I looked over at the HOV lanes to see if maybe they were having a bad day, too. Maybe they were having some "unexplainable" traffic congestion like sometimes occurs on the HOV lanes. Nope. Flying right by. As I sat there crawling behind brake lights. 

I was the person I used to feel sorry for as we were going eighty in the HOV lanes. "Ha...I could never do that. That's painful." And it was. And the driver and other slugs would agree. Craziness. If it wasn't for my Darius Rucker cd, I don't know what I'd have done. Ok, that's an exaggeration. It's survivable. Then again, it wasn't the worst traffic I've seen on 395 before. But why do that when you can pick up slugs and be there in at least half the time. I totally wished I had filled up on gas the night before so I could have just sat in the slug line and waited for riders. (Darius did make me care less about the traffic I was sitting in, though. Love his latest cd.) I just sat in my car, occasionally glancing over at the HOV lanes and sighing. I usually plan so well. I forgot how my gas tank lies to me when it's closer to E, and ends up dropping faster than it should. It also lies to me when it's full, and will take forever to budge at all. Maybe I should get that checked.