I have three different routes I can take to work

"mcseanerson" (mcseanerson) 09/12/2016 at 09:24 • Filed to: None

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One of them is a major highway. The next is a smaller two lane state route with curves and elevation changes. The last one is a bunch of short connected b-roads that wind through the country.

None of my coworkers understand why I don’t take the highway.

Update with a photo from the book of face.

These guys get it.

Stapleface > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 09:31

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When you have options like that, I too would probably take the B roads. Assuming, of course, that travel time was roughly similar. I know it stinks to think about it this way, but I hardly have enough time home during the work week, so if it's going to add 30 minutes plus to my commute, no thanks.

OPPOsaurus WRX > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 09:32

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i didn;t take the highway today cuz it was a missive shit show of a parkinglot

mcseanerson > Stapleface 09/12/2016 at 09:36

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My commute is one of the few times I get to be alone and it’s only 15 minutes one way on the highway. If I take a backroad it can be just as fast or maybe ten minutes longer.

TysMagic > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 09:47

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I can relate to this! I’ve got a roughly 15-30 min drive depending on the traffic flow through some beautiful backroads. It’s a great time to be alone and just decompress - especially with the top down and sun on the face

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 09:51

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I get the same reaction when I tell that I’d either loose time by taking a longer, but empty road than sitting in stop and go traffic.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Stapleface 09/12/2016 at 09:53

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Sounds like my situation. I could add half an hour to my commute and enjoy the twistiest road in area, but between dropping off my daughter at her carpool point in the morning and picking her up at the carpool point in the afternoon, I just don’t have the time to take the long way home.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 09:53

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My wife never understands why I take different routes to get to the same places too. For example, from our house to my parents there are 3 ways to get to the first town between us. Then there are 2 routes from that town to my parents. I take a different one each time usually, and she always asks why.

Unfortunately there aren’t really any nice driving roads on my route to work, though there are 3 different routes I can take.

mcseanerson > TysMagic 09/12/2016 at 10:15

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... you are making me miss my miata desperately.

mcseanerson > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 09/12/2016 at 10:29

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Sometimes I go different ways not because I like one better but just to avoid autopilot.

yitznewton > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 10:34

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There are three main routes to my office, plus some secondary choices.

* Full-on 6-lane highway

* “Regular” suburban surface streets

* Slightly more fun suburban surface streets with a nice fast section of curves at the end, as long as you get it without traffic.

I tend to switch between 2 and 3

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 10:51

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Yea, same here. It’s refreshing to go a different way sometimes.

Stapleface > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/12/2016 at 11:07

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Yeah, being an adult sucks, and I don't have children. Get up at 4:30, on the road by 5:15. Work until 3:30, on the road till 4:30. Feed the dogs, go to the gym, back home at 6:20. Eat dinner, relax for ten minutes, and go to bed by 8. And those are the days I don't work my second job (damn student loans).

TysMagic > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 12:47

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you need another miata

CaptDale - is secretly British > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 14:54

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When I lived farther from work I took the back road 90% of the time.

Pickup_man > mcseanerson 09/12/2016 at 15:19

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I do the same thing except my back roads are just as boring and straight as the highways. Instead of spending my drive in a line of accordion traffic taking the highway/interstate though, I see maybe a half dozen other cars (one of them being the sheriff nearly every morning) until I get closer to town. It’s definitely the back way, but it’s so much nicer. Plus if I’m in a particularly laid back mood that day there’s an entire grid system of gravel roads I can hop on to.

mcseanerson > Pickup_man 09/12/2016 at 15:45

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Yeah, the twisty bits is a bonus but the main benefit is to get away from the traffic and the noise and to just enjoy driving without a lot of the stress. It may take a little more gas and a little more time but it’s worth it.