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I had to get my car out of the garage early today (and tomorrow) because the garage was being cleaned. Of course, I got out at my regular time because I knew that I would not be the only person to have left my car in the lot. I was correct, but the lot was much emptier than usual.
When I got on to the highway, the traffic was really bad, but I continued on my usual route and wondered why so many people were staying on the collector lanes which were highly congested. I found out soon afterwards when I got stuck in a traffic jam. It was stop and crawl for the next twenty minutes while I tried to figure out what was going on.
I listen to the radio at home and in the car, but there was no mention of this traffic issue on the radio. In fact, while I was in the jam itself, the traffic report did come up but still made no mention of the congestion that I was in.
It was only when I got under one of the compass message boards which explained (in all caps) what was going on:
"Two left lanes blocked in express after Leslie."
Well, that explains a lot.
That stretch of highway took me around forty-five minutes to drive through, which on a good day, would have taken me five minutes, and on a bad day ten (maybe fifteen). Craziness!
On top of that, my laptop blue screened on me.
