Rush Hour? Not Really Rushing Here

 Rush hour is such a stupid thing. 

Like ... depending on when I leave a place and depending on if everyone else and their mom is also leaving said place and heading the same direction I'm going....

A drive can either take me 45 minutes...or nearly 2 hours.... 

All depending on if I hit rush hour.

And it's like....with how wide the highways are...you'd think we'd have figured out a way to avoid all the rush hour traffic. 

But nope.

And I'm sure most of it's due to like....accidents and such.

And to the fact that everyone seems to want to drive at freaking 60mph instead of the 70mph they should be going at.

But regardless.

Rush hour is stupid.

And I had to drive in it yesterday....

I suppose "had" is a strong word.

I probably could have stuck around in Hometown for an hour or so and avoided most of the rush hour.

But like....it was either wait around for an hour in Hometown...and then drive 45 minutes home....

Or leave now and spend an hour and 40 minutes in the car.

In the end...the time spent not at home ended up being the same.

Because I ended up leaving during the rush hour time frame. 

Boo. 

In any case.

Rush hour is more on my mind today because my coworker too had to deal with it today.

In that we have this Canary that's been a bit of a problem bird since we got him in.

It started with him picking at the band on his leg to the point he was causing scabs.

And we got that resolved...only for the last couple of days for the talons of the foot to start darkening...and him to start picking at his leg again....and the leg to start swelling and turning colors today.

Which not great signs.

And even worse is the fact that our normal exotic vet we take our birds too....isn't in the office until the end of next week. 

So we ended up having to track a different avian vet down in the next valley over....the valley between Happy Valley and Hometown.

And one of my petcare associates volunteered to take the bird up there.

Which is only like a 30ish minute drive.....

But the drive back down?

By the time the associate got done with the vet and everything.....

They were leaving to head back down at basically the same time I had left yesterday to head back to Happy Valley.

Which meant....yep.

They hit rush hour too.

And it took them an hour and a half to make that 30 minute drive. 

*exhales*

Why is rush hour a thing?

Seriously.

I wish in a way that we had more than one major highway in the area.

Part of me wonders if that would help the congestion.

But honestly. I doubt it. 

People will be dumb no matter how many lanes of road you give them.

Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi