foundation

Monday August 30th 2004 05:36 PM PST

i give myself an hour every morning to get to work. if something goes wrong, i usually can get around it quickly and i'll only take another couple minutes to get to work. BUT TODAY... the thing you don't count on is that construction workers pouring the concrete for a foundation to a new skyscraper. Usually hill street flows quickly cause its 3 or 4 lanes all going one way. The construction closed it down to one lane, and the construction guys were directing traffic so that each cement truck could pull in one after the other. So long story short, the traffic was bad and all the streets that would get you away from the construction were just as bad. it was a long drive.

Then i get onto la cienega where it goes over the top of culver city and into ladera heights. For once i hit the light just right and there was NOBODY around me. Open road in front of me. So i'm going about 80. I hit the top of the hill and fly under the bridge. Scan the bridge quick and check the onramp in front of me. DAMN! CHP getting onto the road right in front of me. There was no chance of him pulling me over cause he was still about 200 meters in front of me, and probably had not even seen me yet. BUT, i had to slow down to the speed limit and crawl along behind him. What a fuckin buzzkill. And my drive had started to get better.