Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 16, 2024

And just like modern traffic, the guy in front of you is an a$$.

I invested in a thoroughbred donkey and I’m stuck behind these Bozos.

His prospects don’t look good.

Reminds me of the tollgate in Blazing Saddles. “Somebody’s gotta go back and get a shi#load a’ dimes.”

“I knew I should’ve taken that left turn at Albuquerque.”

When Kid was in an alt-school, we found that if we left at 7:50, we got him to school at 8:00, thirty minutes before the start. But if we started at 7:51, we barely made it by 8:30… and even missed it occasionally.

Because “all those other people/cars at rush hour”.

As the saying goes, you’re not in traffic, you are traffic.

GPS showing red at Saguaro and Hardrock merge.

Must be at the Slauson cutoff.

Good place for a BBQ joint or bar.

I loved working from home: a 2 minute commute. That’s how long it took to log into the computer on my desk in “the office.”

Yes, I did have a cube at the plant. It had a broken chair and was used to store junk for which nobody else had an immediate need. I also had to put up a big sign. “This is NOT a spare laptop. Do NOT turn it off or disconnect it from the network.”

On the other hand, when I retired from that job, cleaning out the office was easy. I had a spare pair of glasses in one of the drawers for the rare visits I did make.

He needs to start out earlier in January.

Why is it called Rush Hour when no one is moving?

Rump-er to rump-er traffic.

Back when I was a traveling fool for work, I’d have to work in the LA area from time to time. I learned to completely avoid the expressways most of the time and take the surface roads by telling my Garmin to “avoid highways”. Sometimes the road I took was parallel to whichever expressway I might’ve taken.. traffic on the expressway sitting still, me whizzing past the yahoos. Harbor Blvd is the best-kept secret in that area if you’re traveling north-south. Many times I could have shot a cannon down the road and not hit anyone (thanks for that phrase, Dad).

“Chuckles”….

boy ain’t that the truth…

We can head ‘em off at the pass because they’ll be stuck in traffic.

Time to cuss the Cactus Junction.

I’ve been through the desert with a mule with no road …

In the 1950’s the Marxist republican Eisenhower taxed rich people at 90% and built socialist freeways for the masses all across this country.

Today’s republicans want to give all tax dollars to rich republicans and take away SSA, Medicare and welfare to pay for them, then they want to declare themselves to be dictators so they can take your rights away.

What traffic engineer thought that we would benefit from a traffic circle here?

…and life in LA begins!

Actually, the American “freeway” system had its “roots” in the autobahns built by Hitler in Germany, prior to W.W. II Adolph’s idea was a national highway system that could allow rapid deployment of his military to ALL corners of his country…

When former general and now president Eisenhower proposed the same system for America in the 1950s the argument for the rapid deployment of troops to all corners of the country was used – our interstate system was NEVER designed to move people rapidly, it was designed to move “Troops” rapidly…

That’s how Ike pitched it to get the funding from congress…

Only around oases

This is Barstow on the I-15 from Las Vegas to Los Angeles every Sunday night.

Maybe they should put in a roundabout

at least in “Dripalong Daffy” they had traffic lights

When you come to the fork in the road, pick it up.

One of our more amusing columnists wrote recently about going on holiday around Christmas. His Dad always insisted on hitting the road early – around 4.00 am – “To miss the traffic”. It never apparently dawned on him that half the street full of Dads had exactly the same idea. "No matter how early I start out .. " yes, exactly!

I used to hate it when my dad wanted to leave baseball games at the top of the last inning “to beat the traffic”

In what way is this a bottleneck? No one is in anybody’s way.