This
morning, as I usually do, I got my car to go to work. It is true that I can
also catch the subway but it takes longer (about 40 minutes), there is a long
walk from the subway station and, after making some numbers, it costs me the
same the petrol than the metro fare. Maybe I would change my point of view if
the authorities would build a metro station closer to the Power8 Stadium. I
don’t mind catching the public transport, but, in this case, it is not very
convenient.
By car it
takes me about 25 minutes, but today I knew it was going to be different. And
all of you will ask why? The answer is easy: the schools are back. After nearly
three months of calm, no traffic jams, no horns, today everything has changed.
The last
day it took me 20-25 minutes to get to my office. I hardly had to stop in any
lights and I didn’t find any traffic jams despite all the works you find in the
streets in summer. I was aware that it was a temporary situation, however, and
as they say in Spanish, reality exceeds fiction.
I went out
early, a few minutes after eight, and for a moment, it looked like nothing
changed. But I was totally wrong. Once I got to Diagonal I hit the first
problems. Cars stocked in the middle of the street that didn’t let us pass.
What happens after summer? People forget how to drive?
After I overcame
the first obstacle, I found a new problem. I got stuck for more than five
minutes in a light. And all was due because there was this breakdown car
causing trouble. Hopefully, this was my last incidence before getting to my
office nearly 40 minutes after I got out of my house. The return trip had also
a lot of incidences but I am not going to bore you anymore.
Driving is
an exercise of patience. People get annoyed and aggressive and many times you
have to ignore what happens. Driving takes the worst of people and, specially,
in the morning when everybody is in a rush. I hope tomorrow things go
better.
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