30-Day Writing Challenge, Day 13 – Your Ride to Work

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Ugh, this is something I can talk easily about. Since I started working at Trinity I have been subjected to something that I have been able to avoid my entire working life – Interstate Commuting. I know, a lot of people have been commuting on the Interstate for a long, long time. Well, it’s still new for me, and it’s still taking me some getting used to.

I have gone a couple of different routes, and they pretty much take the same time, 30 minutes on the way to school, 45 minutes on the way home. Both of these are subject to change with the slightest shift in the wind.

The drive is made better with good music. Usually, that’s a CD, but sometimes it comes from 1690AM  WMLB . This is the most eclectic radio station in Atlanta. I’ll hear all kinds of music on my ride and that makes it better.

The things that make it bad are the bad drivers. And there are LOTS and LOTS of bad drivers. People coming off of 400 south that try to get over to the HOV lane immediately so they either slow down to dangerous speeds or completely stop. When one person does this it causes others to do it, too.

Another aggravating thing is slowing down going around a corner. Not the super sharp corner where 85 N splits off from 75 S. Just going around the corner. “OH! OH! It’s a corner, there might be something around it! I better stop!”

I would say that the traffic radio helps know what’s ahead, but my part of the drive isn’t the part of Atlanta traffic that causes the most jam-ups, so very rarely are the parts that I’m on given traffic updates.

I say all of this, but in all honesty, I know my commute isn’t that bad. I have heard friends say they have done 90-minute commutes both ways. BOTH WAYS! Holy schnikes! The other thing is that I have a job that I love that I go to Monday – Friday. It’s not like I’m making this drive to a place I can’t stand doing something that I loathe. It’s a wonderful place with amazing people doing something I love. So, in the end, I’ll take it.

30-Day Writing Challenge, Day 12 – Two Words, or a Phrase That Makes You Laugh

I’ll go ahead and address not doing yesterday’s challenge – Your Best Friend. That’s a loaded gun that I’m not playing with. If they had just added an /s/ to “Friend” then I could have done it, but it’s singular, and well, no one wins there. I could have gone on and on about best friends, but that isn’t how it worked out. So, I skipped it. I feel a little bad, but not too much. On to bigger and funnier things!

I would say that, “Go clean your pickle!” is my go-to funny phrase, but that’s not true. I just made that up right now. It made me chuckle a little, but I’m afraid it’d be taken as some kind of euphemism and it’s not, it’s just silly.

My favorite thing to say that makes me laugh is, “pickleweasel”. (look, “pickle” again). It comes from an episode of That 70’s Show and Kelso, a favorite character of mine, asks the guys, “You know what’s a funny word? ‘Pickleweasel'”. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

The thing is though when I Google it, it comes out as two words; sometimes hyphenated, sometimes not. So, because of that, it totally fits in today’s prompt – “2 Words or Phrase…”

I’ve used it for a team name before, The Ferocious Feral Pickleweasels. The teenagers on my team that weekend didn’t think it was very funny. Ha. What do they know?

You try it. Go ahead. Go up and say it to someone. You can do it randomly, you can do it like Kelso did it, or you can find a way to work it into a story you’re telling. Go on, I’ll just wait over here and you can come back and tell me how they laughed and laughed.

It Isn’t Easy Being Green

Especially when you’re surrounded by people that put their plastic bottles in the trash WHEN THE RECYCLING BIN IS RIGHT BESIDE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s labeled VERY clearly, “This bin is for plastic and aluminum recycling.” Oh, I’m sorry you couldn’t take the 1 second it would require to read that phrase before dropping your Sunkist bottle in with all the other crap in the garbage.  Yes, I will go in and take it out because I don’t want that bottle in the landfill for the next 15,000 years.

GAH

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