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... And I'm ready to punch someone. I've been commuting to work on a motorcycle for so long that any time I need to do it in a car, I get extremely frustrated. It's a 14 mile drive, and you'd think it would be no big deal.

My condo building is being painted this week, so all of our patio furniture, barbecue, and my wife's dozens of plants had to be stuffed into our garage, taking up the room where my CB lives. To keep debris and paint spray from entering the garage through the gap around the garage door, I pulled my CB out of the garage early Monday morning, sealed up the inside of the garage door with sheet plastic for the week, rode to the office, and have been using my beater work van to get back and forth to work all week. I don't have a way to safely secure a motorcycle outside overnight, but the van could get stolen for all I care.

It's now Friday, and my head hurts from banging my head on the steering wheel in traffic for a week, watching motorcycles sail by without a care in the carpool lane and lane splitting around me. I feel the same frustration that got me to start riding to work in the first place. I realize how liberating it is to not really care whether or not the freeway is packed with traffic.

Also, gas is now $4.20 a gallon in my area. I usually don't really pay attention, since I buy three gallons at a time which gets me to work for a week and a half. I've gone through a tankful in the van. I felt that in my wallet.

I'm anxiously awaiting a text from my wife to tell me that the painters are finished and that we can get back to normal tonight. I anxiously await the return of my sanity.

haha....this is what happens when you're granted the amazing priviledge of lane splitting/filtering and then have it taken away. It must feel like trying to do surgery with missing fingers. Splitting and filtering has never been legal here and any time I've scooted around the law and done it anyway has resulted in close calls due to drivers who think vehicular manslaughter is an appropriate way to keep somebody from "skipping the line" and getting ahead. I've commuted on my motorcycle every day for many years too, but having never had the option to split lanes, i can see how going back to a car after having all that freedom and agency and convenience would drive a person crazy. I'm sorry you're faced with this terrible trial. just remember, most of us out in here in the savage countryside have no choice but sit in our lanes like a car and be good little boys and girls, even when we're on a bike.

Even the ability to just use the car pool lane, even without splitting would be fine with me. Are you guys able to do that at least?

entire state of South Carolina: "what's a car pool lane?"

lol. we get 3 lanes full of mentally challenged people and one lane full of people with a deathwish. there's no such thing as carpooling in south carolina.

I feel for ya Gin60.

Our local freeway car pool lane now allows single person motorcycles to use the lane. That is about the limit of luxury for us.

Yikes, $4.20/gallon!

(07-09-2021, 05:38 AM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Yikes, $4.20/gallon!

That is a buck-42 ($1.42 Cdn) per liter. Incredibly, that is more expensive than gasoline in southern Ontario. Go figure?

My wife and I were driving down Highway 1 on vacation last week, and saw these gas prices. Neither of us had paid much attention to the price of gas lately, and assumed we were paying vacation destination, holiday weekend inflated prices. Then, I paid the same amount near home yesterday, and realized it had just crept up that far. And that's regular. Premium is $4.50. Looks like I'll be putting the Fiesta ST on the "Eco" tune for a while!
Hallelujah, Mrs. Gone texted to say that they are done painting around the garage. So I'm leaving the van at work and riding home. Now we just need to move enough plants out of the garage to make room for the CB.

Looks like my car will be stuck for a while longer though...

Cool. A garage.

Yah, wish I had a garage......