High Anxiety
As a seasoned commuter in the Puget Sound Megalopolis, I try to lessen the High Anxiety by breaking the trip down into a point to point scenario. I don’t think too far ahead. Just make it to the next marker. Hopefully the little successes will add up and out number any failures and by days end (now home),
I’ll feel like a winner.
Keep it simple, (A) the points you dread, you know the one’s that are a ‘role of the dice’ everyday where anything is possible and likely to happen. When you successfully get by these with little or no incident, you win. Then you have (B) the High Anxiety points, when you pass these babies it’s a major mental catharsis and you spontaneously burst out loud,
“I’m free, I’m free, I’m finally free!”
One nagging question I’ve had for many years driving through Seattle is who in the heck decided that at the very point where you pass through the center apex of the states largest lovely city via its number one thorough fare, that spot should be marked with a Convention Center over the top of said freeway creating an eternal unalterable tunnel and choke point?
I was contemplating all that this morning.
Everyone merging from the left wants to be on the right, everyone on the right needs to be immediately on the left to make the Mercer St exit to our totally revitalized and chic (or is that sheik?) South Lake Union neighborhood.
In the tunnel everyone instantly becomes anxious to jam it to the floor and bust loose from the pack.
And oh!, let’s keep this thing interesting, throw in a few Semi’s that want the middle lane, a bus from the left that needs to exit right onto Olive St, then another that’s merging left from Olive St and cuts across all four to get to the commuter lane. This makes for a pretty exciting half mile most mornings.
Attempting decompression through laughter, the movie High Anxiety comes to mind…
Remember Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke (Mel Brooks), head administrator for
The Psycho-Neurotic Institiute for the Very, Very Nervous?
It’s working, I’m having my own private crackup when…
this bus passes me…
ANXIETY
WILL INCREASE YOUR PERCEPTION OF WAIT TIME
Education comes from all angles BECITYWISE…
Nice ad by City University of Seattle
How totally appropriate…
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