Traffic Woes and Backhoes!

John Chamberlin

Can anything be more of a patience test than sitting in rush-hour traffic?  You come off the highway ramp at 55 MPH (I wrote 55 just in case there are any State Troopers reading this) and you know that feeling of free-moving freedom is going to end right there at the end of the exit ramp!

But this?  A backhoe, LITERALLY in the middle of traffic at 8:30am!!  Can he get that thing in gear easily? NO!  Can anyone try and negotiate around him?  NOPE!  Once I passed him, I noticed he had a “My OTHER Car Is A Triple-Trailer Semi” bumper sticker along with the obligatory East-coaster Outer Banks sticker.

Seriously, is there a ditch that needs to be dug by 10am somewhere?  Can you NOT find a time AFTER rush hour to drive on some of the most crowded rush hour streets?

This is “Traffic SPAM!!!!

Hey, Mr. Backhoe Traffic SPAMMER, whaddaya say you start the morning slowly: go get yourself a doughnut and a coffee, talk about the NFL draft or new schedule with your dump truck buddy, pass around the newspaper in the Dunkin’ Donuts bathroom with the handheld sign-turner guy,  make your calls to the 811 DIG line and then have at it on the roads at about 9:30 AND, if there’s some kind of RUSH HOUR DITCH EMERGENCY, send in a “BACKHOE STRIKE TEAM” ahead of you – apprentices on motorcycles with fold-up Outer Banks beach shovels that can get the ditch started, YA JAGOFF!

 

 

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8 thoughts on “Traffic Woes and Backhoes!”

  1. That picture is grade-A t-shirt material if ever such a thing existed!

  2. Traffic spammers, huh? I like it. I like it a lot. There should be some kind of special lane for them (like an HOV lane spam folder) that leads them down the highway and off a cliff or at least into OBX traffic purgatory where they can’t annoy anyone anymore.

    1. oh hell yeah! I’d pay extra taxes if it was guaranteed to go toward a special lane for these guys and truck drivers!! Thanks for reading and commenting.

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