@Bob_Luken said:
I hate traffic. A couple of weeks ago when I was coming back from the MKE herf, I had successfully avoided almost all major metropolitan areas, but I was ready to make my biggest mistake of the trip. As I was returning I assumed I could breeze through Nashville on a Sunday evening at 8:00 pm because maybe everyone had settled down for the evening to get ready for the work week. Well, that didn’t work. It was in reality the beginning of the work week for the construction crews who were trying to repair the roadways around Nashville without disruption of daytime rush hour traffic. Here I was less than 30 minutes from home, delayed by at least an hour. They had entirely shut down the exit to I-24 the main artery to Murfreesboro. And traffic was so jammed up I couldn’t get off at any exit because most were closed by construction. I had to travel west on 440 and turn south on I 65 which was currently choked down to one lane. The two main arteries running south out of Nashville, and there was one lane available to me. I was going nuts. I would rather drive an extra hour through some rural area than sit in traffic any length of time jammed in with those other drivers.
When you are in a traffic jam most everyone behind you consider you to be part of the problem.