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Notes about a first world problem
I'm driving into the office two hour earlier than usual because I have to
participate in some interoperability testing. I pull onto I-95 and get into
the inside lane as I usually do. Traffic is a bit thick, but it's flowing
albeit a bit slower than I'm used to.
A few miles down the road, I see a state trooper giving a ticket. They got
pulled over for **speeding?** I think to myself. **At best** traffic is
moving at the posted speed limit. I keep driving.
A few miles further down, and again, off to the side are three unmarked state
troopers, just sitting there. I know they're unmarked state troopers because
each vehicle has red and blue lights mounted inside the windows. And to
further hide the fact that they're unmarked state troopers, all the lights on
all three vehicles are flashing. How odd, I think to myself. They pulled each
other over?
About two miles short of the exit, I noticed that the other three lanes of
traffic are significantly crowded, yet the inside lane I'm in is relatively
free of cars. Not so free that I can zip down the interstate at a hundred and
eight, but enough that I'm making excellent time compared to the cars in the
other three lanes of traffic.
It's then I had an epiphany: I bet I'm in the HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle)
lane, I thought, just as I passed under the “HOV Lane, 7:00am—9:00am 4:00pm—
6:00pm” sign.
Facepalm.
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