My morning
Jan. 7th, 2009 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
draggonlaadyPictures of this later:
Coming up to the highway this morning (thinking I'll get to work about 10 minutes early), there's an SUV parked in the oncoming lane with a turn signal (NOT hazards) on, and a guy pacing back and forth on the railroad tracks. As I pull up, the train gate drops, so I stop.
And sit for about 2 minutes while the guy paces the tracks, apparently trying to clear ice from them?
And then a semi pulls in off the highway, and can't fit all the way into the space between the tracks and the highway so he angles across my lane to try and get the butt of his trailer out of the highway.
So I back off, figuring there's no way I'm getting past him, and I'd rather back up now, while there's nobody behind me.
Except then the guy who's pacing the tracks lifts the gate by hand, and waves me forward, and motions like I should go past the trailer and out onto the highway. Okay. Looks awfully narrow to me, but maybe that's the angle? He can see it straight on. Trust the man in uniform, right?
Wrong. No WAY am I fitting through that gap without either scraping the tires of the trailer, or getting wedged into a snow bank.
So I try to back back down, and the guy comes up and asks me to park at the side so the trailer can get past. Which ends up putting me straddling the tracks, in the wrong lane, unable to back up further without hitting the SUV, while the truck driver (very carefully and smoothly, thank God) slips his truck and trailer past my car with about 5 inches of space.
All in all, this took 8 minutes. So much for getting to work early.
Not that it matters, since my 8:15 didn't show up.
And neither has my 9:00 with the woman I expect to try and pawn off the non-housebroken dog onto me.
So I'm sitting here, eating a bagel, and selling My Little Ponies online, because hey, why the Hell not?
ETA: Well, the 8:15 showed up at 9:40, but neither the 9:00 or the 9:30 has shown yet (10am).
ETA: And the 10:15 also didn't show up. The 11:00 (no exam, last puppy shot) is now 10 minutes late...
ETA: The 11:30 showed up. So did the 1:00. Wish that one hadn't; just euthanized a really sweet old dog.
Coming up to the highway this morning (thinking I'll get to work about 10 minutes early), there's an SUV parked in the oncoming lane with a turn signal (NOT hazards) on, and a guy pacing back and forth on the railroad tracks. As I pull up, the train gate drops, so I stop.
And sit for about 2 minutes while the guy paces the tracks, apparently trying to clear ice from them?
And then a semi pulls in off the highway, and can't fit all the way into the space between the tracks and the highway so he angles across my lane to try and get the butt of his trailer out of the highway.
So I back off, figuring there's no way I'm getting past him, and I'd rather back up now, while there's nobody behind me.
Except then the guy who's pacing the tracks lifts the gate by hand, and waves me forward, and motions like I should go past the trailer and out onto the highway. Okay. Looks awfully narrow to me, but maybe that's the angle? He can see it straight on. Trust the man in uniform, right?
Wrong. No WAY am I fitting through that gap without either scraping the tires of the trailer, or getting wedged into a snow bank.
So I try to back back down, and the guy comes up and asks me to park at the side so the trailer can get past. Which ends up putting me straddling the tracks, in the wrong lane, unable to back up further without hitting the SUV, while the truck driver (very carefully and smoothly, thank God) slips his truck and trailer past my car with about 5 inches of space.
All in all, this took 8 minutes. So much for getting to work early.
Not that it matters, since my 8:15 didn't show up.
And neither has my 9:00 with the woman I expect to try and pawn off the non-housebroken dog onto me.
So I'm sitting here, eating a bagel, and selling My Little Ponies online, because hey, why the Hell not?
ETA: Well, the 8:15 showed up at 9:40, but neither the 9:00 or the 9:30 has shown yet (10am).
ETA: And the 10:15 also didn't show up. The 11:00 (no exam, last puppy shot) is now 10 minutes late...
ETA: The 11:30 showed up. So did the 1:00. Wish that one hadn't; just euthanized a really sweet old dog.
