Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Traffic is one of those things that can never be predicted. You can wake up and leave the house early, check the weather conditions, listen religiously to 702 from the moment you wake up and a truck can have a chemical spillage on the highway 5 kilometres ahead of you and extend your one hour trip to work to a 3 hour ordeal so that you turn up 2 hours late on the one day in the year that you are having a performance review and no less than 10 of your managers/ supervisors are sitting in a boardroom waiting to meet you so that they can decide your fate.

Or, you can wake up early and leave for work early, factoring in the extra half hour you need to sit on the Grayston offramp because the turning arrow only comes on long enough for like 5 cars to go through, 2 of which will be taxi's who cheated their way in from the side meaning only 3 lawful cars get though at a time, and the offramp will be nice and empty. Or the lights will be out and the good people from outsurance will be doing a much better job than the traffic light, meaning you can get through in 5 minutes.

Because of this unique quality, traffic is a blessing to the average working person. It can be used as an excuse for being late for almost anything and it's one excuse that is always met with sympathetic nods of the 'been there' kind. It can also be used as an icebreaker at almost any meeting or social situation. Its not considered "speaking about work" so, for people who only knowhow to speak about work,it can be used as a topic at social networking events where you are expected to mingle and talk about thingsother than work. It can also be used by people in hr, who want to talk about something kind-of work related but cannot open their mouthsfor fear of breaking some or other privacy law.

The unpredictableness also prevents people from falling asleep because the entire trip can be spent in attempting to predict whichlane or which route is going to be the fastest and feeling a sense of triumph when you glide past all the other cars who took the suck lane. And if you happen to be the one who chose the suck way you can curse and tsk and blame the weather and the bm's and Tsego Modisane and the karee.
Unpredictability just makes life so much more interesting:)

(Oh and even though the outsurance people are really good for helping out on the road, they absolutely suck! compared to first for women who is much much better than them)

Monday, November 10, 2008

The lovely, beautiful, cleansing, rejuvenating, refreshing, scene-altering rain makes me so happy :)
Allah is great!