Cross-town Traffic

* Remember a few months ago (okay it was more like six months) when I was complaining about the extra fifteen minutes it took for me to get to work because of some rubber neckers along highway 44? Boy, those sure were the good old days! This month we moved into our new house out in O’Fallon (to accommodate our growing family) and now I drive highway 70 to the riverfront. On a good day, the 70+ mile round trip commute will take about 40 minutes each way. Unfortunately I’ve only had one ‘good day’ of driving in the past three weeks! Twice in the past week it has taken two hours to get home, and yesterday it took an hour and forty-five minutes to get to work. This morning a single-car accident in the opposite direction added an extra twenty minutes onto my drive time just from the high RN factor (Rubber Neck factor) of the drivers going east. And it really wasn’t that spectacular of an accident… just a pickup that bounced off the median once or twice.