Morning Traffic Jams

Most of the times I'm late is because of traffic on the highway. I commute from Brooklyn to get to Stony Brook, so I have to go through four highways: Belt Parkway -> Cross Island Expressway -> Long Island Expressway -> Nicholas Road. Four highways of people who do all types of stupid things. One thing I hate is when I'm going really fast but then, some guy doing like 55 switches into the lane really suddenly and I have to break hard as hell --and he just slows everyone up.

Then there are the people who love to drive next to each other, and you can't pass any of them by. Or the people who don't want to let you through when you enter the highway, but once you're finally in, they're not even going fast or anything, so they couldn't just let you in, they were just being dicks about it. And, of course, accidents --which can be over and done with for about 20 minutes, but it still causes traffic jams because people want to be nosy. One morning though, I seen a car flipped over on its roof. People *really* slowed down for that one (I did too, I can't lie)

It also seems like the simplest things can jam up the whole highway. Repercussions from one lane being closed can be felt from miles and miles away. I wake up on time every morning for class (6am), but sometimes there are traffic jams on three out of the four highways, and it just eats up so much time. There are times you can cheat though, and jump in the HOV lane, but you have to be careful once you get to the 50's neighborhood (exit 50's), because those highway troopers are all around.