Drew's Version of WTF

I'm not sure if this post belongs here or in my Bicycle Commute blog...

It figures that the one beautiful day that I choose to leave the bike at home, I would have been better off riding it. I planned on going to get a hair cut after work today. Knowing that this might take some extra time, I chose to drive in to work, thinking that I would be able to scoot right home and get the workout in. it pained me to drive on such a beautiful day, but I was saving time... being more efficient. Was I wrong!?!?

I started my drive home taking my normal route down Rte. 130 (toward exit 2), when the traffic comes to a complete stop by the Exxon station up near Cotuit Rd. where I work. This is a bad sign, as there are more than four miles to travel before I can get home, and the traffic isn't moving. I pull a quick "U"ey and head back toward Quaker Meetinghouse Road - a longer route home, but not by much. I get a couple of miles into this route, and the traffic comes to a stop before exit 3. As I crawl across the overpass over the MidCape Highway, I can see that the traffic going west bound (off Cape) is at a standstill here as well. Cars are off on the side of the highway overheated and more steaming cars (and drivers) are getting off at exit 3 to join us in creeping toward Rte. 6A. It turns out that there has been some sort of vehicle summersault, horribly resulting in a fatality and a medivac flight that has closed Rte. 6 going off Cape between exits 2 and 1. God help us if there is ever some natural disaster that requires our evacuation... I hope the canoe can hold the family and all the pets, because that may be our only way off this here island.

The moral of this story: I should have ridden the bike. It took me twice as long to drive home as it would to have cycled. Never assume that a gas powered vehicle will get you there quicker (although in most cases it will). I need to go for a run and lift some weights. Tomorrow I bike!