LA Rant: Freeway Traffic Signs
So we’re all used to the traffic, inoculated. When there’s simply just too many cars on the road, everyone trying to go to the same place at the same time – I get it. Or when there’s a natural disaster, like the gays taking over the streets to protest Prop H8 and it feels like a zombie movie – I get it. I can work with that.
I will not work, however, with those freeway signs that tell you how long it will take you to get somewhere else on the freeway.
Thank you for telling me that it will take me twenty-five minutes to get to the 10/405 interchange, and that, therefore, I will be seventeen minutes late for work. Thank you for causing at least five minutes of said reported traffic when slow readers slow down to read you. Thank you for ruining my little game, the one where I lie to myself and pretend I’m not late up until the time I was supposed to be there actually comes and goes, thereby making me “actually late” and not just “probably going to be late”; you have effectively added hours more of “time spent being late” to my life. Thank you for being incredibly inaccurate, so that even if I show up on time, I still have the stress of having been late (according to you) for the entire car ride.
Also, how can it take twenty minutes to get to the 405, but twenty-five to get to PCH? That’s ludicrous, sign. Ludicrous.
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December 11th, 2008 at 1:15 am
i never thought of it that way before. i am also outraged!
December 12th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
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