Rush-hour traffic is bad – we know this. There is nothing new in saying, “isn’t rush hour traffic a complete bastard”. If you’re unlucky enough to be on a main road in any major conurbation and get to 40 mph at any point in your rush-hour journey to work then you’ve been very lucky indeed. We’ve come to expect slow traffic, and generally we ignore it like we do party political broadcasts and requests from friends to borrow money. It’s a fact of life.

However, sometimes it can get really slow, this can be due to any number of factors. A car crash ahead, a flat tyre, or simply Karma noticing that I’m in a particular hurry that morning. Karma really can be a shit sometimes.

Thursdays journey to work was exceptionally slow, this is surprising as during half-term week there are no 4×4 off-road vehicles taking the kids to school so things tend to move a bit quicker. Even though it was slow I noticed no accident, no flat tyres in need of changing, and I was not in a particular hurry so Karma was unable to screw me over.

So what caused all the delays? (more…)

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