Coming through!
Every single day, an epic battle commences between these two bitter rivals. The rubber meets the road. The pavement meets the tire. The asphalt meets the exhaust and when all is said and done both are left exhausted. The bitter rivalry of the week is the car vs. the road.
All roads every want to be is smooth as the jazz you play on your car radio. All they want is their face to be free of oil and pollution and exhaust so they can have Clearasil clear skin, and yet all they get are huge zits (potholes) everywhere because cars just seem to want to drive all over them. Where ever they go, they cars seem to be automatically attracted to them. Driving all over them, being all heavy and weighing them down. And when cars aren’t driving all over them, they are sitting on them. Just like a mean older brother would sit on a younger brother (I would know, I was the older brother). They claim they are just sitting there because of a red light, but how is the road supposed to know that? So they are supposed to believe that light is stopping the car from moving? And why do they always gather together every morning at 8 am to sit on us and not move for hours? It’s just so mean.
Pothole 1, Car 0.
Cars on the other hand, all they ever want is run smooth. To stay together. They want to be one big happy family. They don’t want squeaky brakes, or rattly transmission or flat tire. They just all want to be together and go all places together and really the fastest way possible. If they could go in a straight line to every place ever, that would be their dream. But roads just want to take cars on an extreme wild goose chase where ever they go. How about instead of going straight somewhere we lead you on an obstacle course around the city. Want to go to work in the 20 minutes it should take? Nope, we are going to lead you on roads that curve. Want to get there in one piece? Sorry, we’ve got potholes and sewer covers and turtle things in the road so you can’t change lanes smoothly. And just when you thought you the snow was melted and you can get to work without weather delays? Construction season. No way you are getting to work without some sort of detour. You best bring some entertaining tunes on your radio, cause you’re gonna be waiting a while, car.
The Battlefield.
The battlefields are out there everyday. From the 405’s of LA and Seattle, to the I-10’s of Texas, to the I-395’s of DC, and all other horrific commutes of all over the US to the ones of the world, the battle of car vs. road continues to be fought every day.
Who’s side are you on? Does the road deserve to have its smoothness taken away every day by all the vehicles? Is the road a jerk for potholing and constructioning cars to death? And most of all, who is the most bitter?
ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHH
Bitter Road Warrior Ben
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You are so silly. 🙂 The most bitter is the driver.
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Especially when the driver is in traffic.
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I’m on George Jetson’s side. He has a flying car. 😀
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Or Doc Brown and Marty McFly. Sometime in October they will be showing up in Hilldale with a flying car.
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A return to the theaters is in order.
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Right? Some of the things they predicted are pretty spot on and others like flying cars…not so much.
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Yeah. Why is it I wonder.
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Never thought much about it until moving to Seattle. Now all I know is hatred and rage directed at every other car around me, as we crawl, shoulder to shoulder, down miles upon miles of roads FOR NO REASON other that the sheer number of people on the road. I’m all heated even thinking about it. Must. Invent. Teleporting.
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Yeah Seattle traffic kind of sucks. I didn’t really think about it much when I was growing up either, because the town I lived in didn’t have much of a traffic problem.
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I love how you embrace your rage.
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It’s just such a big part of me, why not?
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I like to bottle up my rage and push it waaaay down deep. That’s healthy, right?
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Oh I do that too. I write about my rage, but never actually talk about it out loud. So I keep it inside so it’s healthy.
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Well, one of these days maybe I’ll see you on the news when you let your rage be free.
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It’s not a matter of if, but when.
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I thought your bitter rivalry was going to be between miss piggy and Denise?
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That would be a great one for next week.
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I, personally, commute by light rail train. Let the cars and roads battle it out while I enjoy a smooth, quick ride with my headphones on. Ahhh!!
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Well, some people are fortunate to have fancy light rail trains like you. We have to battle the streets every day.
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Duh, I’m on my cars side of course. It’s not my responsibility to fix the road.
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I’m on my own side. Whatever gets me home and napping the quickest.
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I think that would be the car.
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Unless pavement starts it owns escalator.
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I hate driving, so I am a fan of reliable, affordable public transportation that isn’t crowded that doesn’t smell like urine.
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Where do you find that? There is no such thing here.
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ARGH, the bitter battle of bumper-to-bumper traffic! I am on the side of both the road and the cars. You know whose side I am NOT on? PEOPLE’S.
I could drive windy, twisty roads if those roads were smooth and not full of other drivers. I am a fan of cars actually driving on roads, even if that means occasional upkeep of the roads to prevent zits (potholes). Cars really wouldn’t be all that bad if there weren’t people in them.
So yay roads! Yay cars! Boo people!!!!!!!!!
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You are so right. Roads and cars for the win, People for the loss.
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Well, neither the roads nor the cars can win, so if we are talking about fantasy scenarios, I figured I can throw in another one and be bitter in the process.
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Apologies for replying to the wrong comment.
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I’m okay. I was able to get over it.
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That is what usually happens in bitterest rivalries. They are usually so evenly matched that a third scenario has to come in and break up the head to head. In this case, the train.
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