[unstable bob gable]

After 20 plus years of working 2nd shift (3 pm-11 pm) I recently transferred to day shift (7am-3pm). I didn't want to do it but my position was recreated as a day job so I didn't have many options. Well, talk about shell shock! I leave my house at 4:30 to beat traffic and get a decent parking space up here in lovely armpit NJ. So I'm sitting here for over an hour before I start. Transit also has a 6am-2pm shift, but of course my department never switched to that shift. And then leaving here at 3 I'd think I'd have a jump on traffic. Yeah, right! I guess rush hour starts at noon, or nobody works anymore, or there is no such thing as shifts like 8 to 4 or 9 to 5. Every way I try to go home there is traffic: Parkway, 78, 287, Rt1, RT 9...
Many ways to go and all lanes are packed. I used to enjoy my ride in and ride home to work but now I hate it. Everybody at works says they love dayshift but I'm praying something opens on 2nd shift. This state is too dayum crowded with vehicles, and then mix in the Pennsyltucky and New Pork idiot drivers and it makes for one endless case of road rage.