Morning Traffic
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
I leave my house every morning with plenty of time to drop Tony off and get to work early. I think my internal clock is still set to Atlanta Metro Traffic time where 10 miles equals 30 minutes to 3 hours of drive time. So very rarely will you see me red faced and honking my horn and slower traffic in the mornings. I sometimes think that I am alone in this attitude.
This morning I saw a woman with 3 kids in her car having a stroke because of traffic. Getting into a long line of school traffic, she had tried to beat the light and got stuck blocking an intersection. She proceeded to honk and scream and the 30 some odd cares in front of her. I was the first in the traffic she was blocking, and I had places to go, but never did I feel the need to honk or give her the eye…cause I was running early. The kids in her car looked scarred and shocked by the display in the driver’s seat. It was almost like watching a bad skit on SNL.
Let’s put aside the fact that her blood pressure was off the chart. Let’s forget that it was her fault for trying to beat the light. Let’s, for a moment, consider those kid’s morning. What a crappy way to start the day. Seeing mom go postal over the same line of cars they get into everyday. This line backs up every day from 7:30-8:00. It’s not a surprise. I wonder if she is like this every day.
Anyway…my advice. Get up 15 minutes earlier. Enjoy the morning a little more. I enjoy having a few minutes to let Tony walk down the hallway to his class instead of carrying him in and throwing him at the workers. I really like getting to work a few minutes early to get my day figured out before our phones are turned on. 15 minutes…that’s it. And chill out.
I got carried away in my posts about 

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love hanging with a healthy baby, and I do appreciate the mindset of “better safe than sorry” but come on. Pink eye is a highly contagious critter, so I give them that, but Ringworm…really. It’s a fungus. If that is being passed around, someone is not properly cleaning the daycare. Thrush? That’s like a yeast infection. Again, why are the babies sharing bottles and nipples? That’s the only way to pass it. And on top of everything…he didn’t have any of them. Plus…and here’s the real kicker for me…we pay $185 a week for this daycare. Anytime I am away from work, I don’t get hours. So unless they are going to start reimbursing me for the false alarms, we are going to start looking elsewhere…for a place that doesn’t care if my child or the others are contagious…yeah…wait…
It’s the general consciences about Tony. He’s an extremely laid back baby. I know as result of writing this that he is changing into a demon child. However, that’s what we get all the time.
I’ve been the drop off man for tony for as long as he’s