# Rant about your commute

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-your-commute/596055>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 12, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-your-commute/596055 "2011-09-12T15:06:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-your-commute/596055/81 "2011-09-21T21:40:04Z")

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> [@lost4life](#):
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> You guys have it easy. I have to walk down a hallway, then down the stairs, then make 2 rights! Plus, there always seems to be a 2 cat pileup on the stairway.

Ha! You beat me to it. I have to walk about 8 steps from the bedroom to the office room, and sometimes there’s as much as a **five** -cat pileup on the thoroughfare (we actually refer to it that way–that’s why your comment amused me. 🙂 )

Once or twice a week I have to drive 38 miles each way in to the office, but it’s a reverse commute so aside from the distance, it’s not bad at all.

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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-your-commute/596055/82 "2011-09-22T05:25:37Z")

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It’s awful!

I have to leave half an hour before I am due at work. I drive 4 miles, have to go through six traffic lights, two of which are at major intersections! Sometimes all of the traffic lights are red when I get to them. Those days I am only ten minutes early for work!

Going home, though, it is a bit easier, since there is pretty much no traffic.

Tris

hehehehehehe

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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-your-commute/596055/83 "2011-09-23T01:44:52Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Well, that’s good because I thought you were going to tell us that he kept it scattered all over the beaches of the world.
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> Yes, it’s an old Steven Wright routine.

Did you hear about the lady that walked the beaches offering to cell batteries to folks who had portable radios/boomboxes (this is vey old, really)?

She sells C cells by the seashore.

But more seriously, it sometimes takes me 3 minutes to get out of my side street onto the 2 lane road that goes to my office, 1.3 miles and 2 minutes away. That’s my only gripe.

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-your-commute/596055/84 "2011-09-23T02:00:49Z")

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My commute is 5 minutes. However, it is at 515 in the am since I have to be at work at 530 in the am. My only rant is about a particular intersection. I often hit it when the light has been green and it always start to turn red as I pass through it. It is a very wide intersection, but I’m dreading when the city needs even more money and they install red light cameras there.

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