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It’s been about a month now since I began my job in Newport Beach and my daily commute of 80+ miles. The trip from home to work is usually around an hour and a half, while the drive back is a lot faster at only an hour, but still requires sitting through some traffic.

I love driving. Driving in traffic is another matter though. The commute has yet to get to me to the point where I dread it, and the extra time does give me a good opportunity to catch up with people over the phone (Ooh dangerous driver!).

But I really hate bad drivers. My road rage tends to stay in check, and I haven’t had a total blow out yet. I rarely give any one the finger, which I doubt I ever would do just cause it seems like a pointless gesture. And I only honk to avoid an accident, cause using the horn shows weakness. It’s a hell of a lot more effective to just cut in front of people, or better yet, slowly inch your way across the dotted line to invade his space and confuse him as to whether you’re changing lanes or not. It’s an agonizing torture.

One day I’m bound to start flashing my highbeams at people who are going too slow in my lane. I already reached the point this week where I dropped into 4th gear and started weaving in and out of 65mph traffic at 80-85mph. That relieved some good tension.

The 405 always sucks in the morning. There are no accidents at all, it’s just slow. The 5 and the 605 are actually fairly decent, just that danged 405 with all the stupid cars on it.

The Pasadena 110 Freeway is my happy place, though. I’m probably psycho to go 80 in the fast lane (Not suggested in the rain; I almost lost control just going 60 because of all the flooding on Friday from the rain), but I think if I totalled my car while going that fast on that freeway, I’d be stupidly happy.

So please, if you’re on the 110, stay out of the left lane unless you plan to go faster than the posted speed limit. That’s my danger zone.