CONSTRUCTION: What do YOU hate about it?!

you know how they'll shut down one (or more) lanes? I hate when people zoom all the way down the lane that's about to close, and then try to horn in between two cars that were likely waiting there for fifteen minutes already.

Those guys are assholes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

And I'm the asshole not letting them in... probably creating more traffic in the process. Although I do love how they look at me with handicapped faces like I'M the douche-fag.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I don't really hate much about it except for when some jackass changes lanes 3 or 4 times thinking it'll make him get to his destination faster.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I hate the workers. How often do you actually see them WORKING?

Almost never. They're usually just standing around bullshitting. I want to punch them in the face.

How ya doing, buddy?

I'm particularly fond of the propensity for Detroit construction workers to cone off two expressway lanes for a good 15 miles in anticipation of construction work that isn't even happening for a few days.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Zephyrin

I hate the workers. How often do you actually see them WORKING?

Almost never. They're usually just standing around bullshitting. I want to punch them in the face.

There's this intersection nearby that's being worked on pretty vigorously. I even saw a woman working there, and not just holding up the stupid SLOW sign!

I mentally fistbumped her.

Additional Spam:

Originally Posted by packrat

I'm particularly fond of the propensity for Detroit construction workers to cone off two expressway lanes for a good 15 miles in anticipation of construction work that isn't even happening for a few days.

This is so frustrating I slammed the desk in how frustrated I am with this.

ASSHOLES.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Tijuana

I don't really hate much about it except for when some jackass changes lanes 3 or 4 times thinking it'll make him get to his destination faster.

Around here, people travel in Stupid packs. There'll be about 10-20 cars all cluster-fucked in one little area due to some DICKFUCK ahead of the gang.

You dodge traffic doing road dances until you break free.

9 out of 10 times, when I dodge lanes, I win. You guys just sit behind that string of morons. I'll be in the right lane (where half of you should be ANYWAYS) flying up the highway.

Meanwhile, I'm with Zeph. Those motherfuckers are NEVER working.

Or you see "ROAD WORK FOR THE NEXT 32 MILES" and there's nothing on the road, not even a CONE, and you get whacked with double speeding fines just because of that MORONIC SIGN.

Thanks to OBAMABUX, there's construction going on every 10-15 miles almost ANYWHERE you go in this state anymore.

ugh UGH UGH, road rage~

FELIPE NO

I hate it when there's construction so far up ahead you have no idea what's going on, but you can deduce that it's one lane for two way traffic because you're just sitting there, and a ton of cars is coming down the opposite lane. However, you start to notice that you're seeing a steady stream of traffic coming down, but you've only moved two cars in the last 20 minutes.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I hate it when the traffic jam is simply caused by people slowing down to look at the workers. Have these people never seen fat men sitting on their arses before? I can understand it to some extent when people slow down to look at a car crash, they might have the same long running sweepstake as I do (One day it'll be a combine harvester and a bike, one day) but road works are essentially uninteresting. How much wouldn't it cost to put up sight screens round all the road works? Certainly not much and it'd get the traffic going that much quicker.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, people who try and squeeze into the next lane because their lane is closed... they make me wanna stab someone.

No, you had absolutely no warning that the lane was ending. You've only known for the last mile+. Blaaargh.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Their outfits are too gauche for words.

How ya doing, buddy?

What I hate about it is cops make $500 to stand there on details (at least in Boston). The cop lobby has the politicians by the balls, so they have instituted some ridiculous system where cops get paid overtime for construction details; if they work more than 4 hours they get paid for 8, if they work more than 8 they get paid for 16, all double-time already.

The highest paid public worker in this town around Boston is a cop who makes like 200k a year, all for standing around constructions like that.

Great use of tax money.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

In my place, constructions take place way too often with no results...

In short, they just dig out (almost every) roadsides, using mundane reasons like 'to check underground cable connection', 'to check water pipes', etc.

With an ultimate result: roads with holes in them, which they don't bother to repair at all. And fucking furious people who keep on pressing the horn in their frustration of endless road blocks.

Damn projects.

I was speaking idiomatically.