Fog and Frost. Days like this I know why I have retired from going to work every day. I think there should be a permanent understanding that no one has to drive to work in the fog! I know I would have backing in this campaign, but I also know my campaign would fail due to the need to work for a living. (Put a different way: the businesses need their employees to open, customers to buy, and we all need money to put food on the table — and the majority of us are not going to buck that system, mostly for the latter reason.) It is a great dream though.
Heavy fog is more than a pet peeve. It is dangerous. If one is lucky he or she comes up behind another car and can follow their lights. That works fine if that followed driver knows where they are going or is not going at a ridiculously fast rate of speed.
Then you have to weigh that option: How fast do you go? Common sense says drive slower so you might have time to react should something appear in front of you. But common sense on some roads also tells you that if you try to go slow, you are going to get run over from behind.
Why would you get run over from behind? Two reasons. The person that drives too fast because they think it can’t happen to them OR the person that is terrified of going slow enough because they know the speeders are out there racing to work.
Solutions, I wish. But we can at least think before we get in the car, make sure our headlights and fog lights are clean, concentrate while we are driving, and control our tempers so we can concentrate.
So, for those of you out there this morning in the fog, I know you will be tense when you get to work. I just hope you will be lucky enough to have gorgeous weather this afternoon to make you smile and release some of that tension. And if the sun is not smiling on you and no one at your workplace has made you smile yet, maybe it is up to you to think of something funny and get your day going in a different direction, a better one.
I for one, will stay off the roads and out of your way.