The summer migration has begun

There are a number of great migrations that have occurred since time began…the Monarch Butterfly’s migration to and from Mexico, the great Wildebeest migration through the Serengeti, but none can hold a candle to the annual orange barrel migration from who knows where to the highways and byways of the land that time forgot.

Now each season has its harbingers, spring has baseball, fall has high school football, but it is the summer influx of orange barrels and the minions that stand around them doing nothing that really says summer with a capital ‘S’.

Now I know that this is an important part of keeping our countries infrastructure strong, but why does it need to take so long? Another thing, why is it that after years of driving behind them that people still do not understand how to drive through construction areas efficiently. Instead it’s almost like they have never seen construction equipment along the side of the road so they have to slow done to 20 miles an hour to get a better look.

We all know what happens next; the idiots yapping on their cell phones don’t see that traffic has slowed down and decide to play bumper cars. Now traffic comes to a complete stop….thanks guys.

I guess the good news is that with gas prices the way that they are, sitting still in traffic is really doing wonders for my gas mileage.