Ok, so not really road rage, but there are parts of my commute that really aggravate me.

 Now, those of you with really long and arduous commutes probably have no sympathy for me.  Heck until we moved out here, I probably wouldn’t have any sympathy for the annoyances of my commute.  I mean how bad could it be, 20 to 25 minutes along a mostly 2 lane (one in either direction) road.  Plus there’s really no traffic to speak of pretty much ever.  So you wonder, how could I get upset with a cake commute like that.

Well as we head out of town along the road through the farms, the speed limit gets progressively faster.  It starts at 25, moves to 30, then 35, 40, 45, and then you reach a sign that says “End 45MPH Zone.”  That’s it.  Nothing else.  Coming home we have the exact opposite, depending on where you join the road, there’s no posted speed limit until you hit the 45MPH zone and then it decreases incrementally down to 25MPH as you approach town.

  Now, it is posted throughout the county, and may even be a state law, that the speed limit is 55MPH on all roads unless otherwise posted.  That means that when you encounter the “End 45 MPH Zone” sign you should speed up to 55MPH (maybe 60 shhh…). 

Unfortunately either many drivers just get easily spooked by the two lane road they’re driving, don’t understand the law or whatever, but instead insist on driving this road at 10MPH or more BELOW the speed limit!  It would be fine if you could pass these people, however on this particular 7 mile stretch of road, there’s only 3 passing zones and traffic is often too heavy to safely pass.  It’s quite frustrating to be stuck in a line of 10 cars behind some goober in a beat up Aerostar who insists on driving 30 in a 55 zone….

One of my favorites though will be the folks who do 50 all the way into town…  Driving slower than the speed limit as we reach town, and then speeding anywhere from 5 to 20 miles ABOVE the speed limit as we go through town…

I know, lame compared to folks who spend 45 minutes in bumper to bumper traffic on a freeway every day…