Road hold ups today. What holds you up on the roads.

Too much traffic, accidents, road construction... Never goats. Once it was cattle being herded onto a truck. I usually have all my papers though. What's holding you up getting yours? (evil grin)

I don't drive, but I have been inside many veichals with other people when throughout my life when the car, or truck or whatever I was in, was held up by something or other. Back in St. Augustine, it was the bridge of Lions. My bus driver used to say I was cursed because after I boarded the bridge would decide that was the right time to open. Same in the car with my family as well. Now a days its regular road hazards, guard rail repairs, school crossings, trains, oh yes and last but not least wet slippery roads. I would generally deal with the situation in one of three ways. One, I would complain to the driver , two sleep, or three twitch in my seat until the episode ended while doing the endless chatter of questions that while the driver may not admit it now that I look back on it, I must have anoyed the living daylights out of them. Of course the aformentioned complaining was a direct result of low blood sugar and little to no access to food naturally. Of course at the time I didn't realize my blood sugar was low.

i can't say we have goat crossings,but we do have the occasional escaped cows from one of the milk farms up here.. most times it's either road work or accidents. people seem to think stop signs don't apply to them unless they see their name on it.

Yassou Niece, about the only thing that will hold u up here is road constrution unless u are on a two lane road & sometimes it's big farming equipmenet that will hold u up. I just wait [not patiently] till i can go again.

LMAO If goats were in the road here, they would be road kill (smashed animal in the road). No one would stop unless they were afraid the goat would damage their auto. Here the only things that blocks traffic are accidents and idiots trying to merge onto another highway.

Its usually road works, traffic or "Reginald Molehusbands" (overly cautious drivers...often older men in hats) - nothing as exciting as goat parades. I've just had a really good run home from my son's place as there was so little traffic around. I'm usually quite patient as I tend to allow myself more time than I need if I have to be somewhere for a specific time.

hi thea I am one of the very few Californians who do not drive and do not have a car, but my friend Nelda takes me around to various p laces I need to go. the last time we were on the freeway the traffic suddenly slowed and almost came to a complete stop then would move forward a few hundred feet then stop and as curious as we were we never did find out what the hold up was because quite suddenly it all started moving again as though nothing had ever happened. we must have thirty to forty minutes just crawling along. Ifound out later a furniture co. truck lost several large pieces of furniture and those had to be taken out of the lanes on the freeway. I am just glad there were no accidents involved in it. One time on the freeway a keg of nails fell off the back of a truck and ten cars were stopped with leaking tires, one of which was our pickup, all four tires were flattened, what a mess. the handsome man in the chauffer driven limosene fared without a tire loss. he insisted on using his aaa card to take us to his own tire shop where he paid for four new tires then this angel took us to oneof his restaurants for dinner, also he paid it, cometo find out this Italian man owned a chain of italian restaurants and a chain of tire shops and was very very wealthy. and now I do not remember the man's name. how stupid of me. this was long long ago.myson was six, my little daughter was five, we lost her when she was 8.anyway they were home safe with my mom. my mom was really worried as we were so late getting home. But all was well that ended well. lol

What usually hold people up here is either an accident or road construction on the road. There has been a few time when a cow and a horse held the traffic up but that does not happen very much.

Thea! Shameless name dropping and string pulling! I'm shocked! The goats story is lovely, wish I had seen it. You'll have to keep a camcorder in the car for the next time. In linlithgow, where I'm orignally from, there are swans whose home is at the loch, and during the breeding season, it seems like they like to come out and show off their babies. But they like to come up onto the high street, and they use a particular split zebra crossing to get across the road. I've had to stop a couple of times for them to use the crossing, and looking into the other cars, you can see the big grins on the drivers faces as they watch this spectacle. Animals aren't daft, and must have figured out it's the safest way to cross the road.

Here in India we are perpetually repairing roads which causes road blocks and then there are processions of all kinds which include processions of politicians, weddings, festivals, strikers and last but not the least bad drivers who do not follow rules. There is also heavy traffic on the roads and the roads are so congested that ones drives at snail pace.

usually ihold myself up lol im not an angry or hurried driver even if im late for something