{"id":857,"date":"2016-08-16T21:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2016-08-16T21:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:57:53","slug":"tales-from-the-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Anyone who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for any length of time will tell you that the commute is getting worse all the time.\u00a0 Luckily I am able to carpool most of the way with my husband, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/081716_0456_Talesfromth1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"171\" align=\"right\" \/>Jerry.\u00a0 This really helps with the westbound approach to the San Mateo Bridge.\u00a0 However, once Jerry gets to his destination in Foster City I am on my own for the next five miles to my workplace in Redwood City and this leg of the trip can often take up to 30 minutes.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Alternate routes are limited and equally congested so I am stuck going through the 92 interchange to southbound 101.\u00a0 The traffic is almost always bumper to bumper and the drivers I encounter on this route have made me a pessimist about the future of humanity.\u00a0 Traffic may be getting bad because there are more drivers on the road but the main culprit are people on their phones.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Yesterday morning&#8217;s asshat was in an old grey Honda Accord with a cigarette in one hand and a phone in the other.\u00a0 I was behind him and saw in his side mirror, his eyes looking down with an occasional break to look up and take a puff on the ole cancer stick, blowing smoke out his open window.\u00a0 When he almost rear ended the work truck in front of him I thought he would be scared straight and put the phone down.\u00a0 But nope, he still couldn&#8217;t stop looking and instead slowed everyone down by hardly moving at all. I finally leaned on the horn to get him moving and as an added bonus I rolled down my window and stuck my head out and yelled at the top of my voice, &#8220;GET OFF YOUR FUCKING PHONE!&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">To my surprise he actually heard me and amazingly the erratic phone driving stopped. Unfortunately I also scared him out of the lane and a few yards later he merged to the left, early and over the solid line. That&#8217;s OK because I was glad to be rid of him. I need to start screaming at my fellow commuters out my rolled down window more often. It was extremely satisfying and made for a better rest of the day.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for any length of time will tell you that the commute is getting worse all the time.\u00a0 Luckily I am able to carpool most of the way with my husband, Jerry.\u00a0 This really helps with the westbound approach to the San Mateo Bridge.\u00a0 However, once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}