Folks,

Today on my ride in to work I got stuck behind a garbage truck. Dag.

This would have been fine if the guy driving the truck wasn't also a complete asshole. He would not let me pass on three or four different occasions. And it wasn't that he didn't see me, we made eye contact several times. It was more like "I hate my job and the only power I see myself having in the foreseeable future is to not let you get by me so you have to smell the detritus that I pick up all day long."

So, being the genius that I am I chose an alternate route to escape the truck. I turned off the road I was on and almost immediately ran into a ton of traffic caused by a stalled DPW truck. Good lord. Anyway, I made it around the truck, shot through the rest of my shortcut and rejoined my original route about two miles from where I turned off --- right behind the same garbage truck, which smelled like it had picked up thirty or forty rotten animal carcasses in the interim.

Sometimes you just can't win.