My vent about traffic and the people in it

For two years all I had to do to get to work was to drive about 3 blocks.  It was absolute bliss not to have to spend hours fighting through traffic in the to get to and from work.

Recently I have started a contract position that requires me to drive a long way to work, thankfully mainly on the freeways (one of which has almost no construction work happening on it) and as result I have understandably lots to vent about traffic-wise.

Where to start - well there are the roadworks which slow down traffic, the slow drivers who insist on driving 80k/h on a freeway, the numerous truck with dubious loads - parts of which may be falling on the road - and the fast drivers (going above the speed limit) who think that you will magically disappear from the fast lane if they drive 5cm from your bumper.

But driving home today I realised that all of the about does not upset me as much as those drivers who consider the road to be their personal dustbin.  It really gets to me every time I see someone throwing a ciggie but, a tin or some kind of wraper out of the window.  I also start hearing voices saying 'Who do you think is going to pick that up'.

I may have a less tidy car than those who dispose as they drive but I take some pride in having listened to the lessons of my elders when they taught me to not litter and to treat property outside of your home as my own.  You would not thoughlessly throw rubbish in your garden so why do it to public property?

And now that I think of my dear car, I must give her a little tidy up and throw the papers and other rubbish that I have collected in the car - and of course correctly recycle those items that I can recycle.