Another commute to work

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So, I live a pretty boring life, so I have to tell you guys when I see something interesting. Like this morning. First, the totally blind roommate overdrew her account and so I was running to pull some money to put in her account to keep her out of trouble, this involved running to one bank and then to her bank, but it meant that I had to leave the house early and, I was thinking it would be easier to go via Lamar rather than the interstate, I turned right instead of left from my house. Bad move, but... Okay, lets start with the fact that traffic was jammed up because I didn't know that Lamar was down to one lane south bound (the direction I needed) due to some construction. But, to top it off, there were 5 SUVs, 2 police cars, a fire engine and an ambulance in the parking lot of a restaurant across the street from my cross street (happily I have a traffic light there now that I didn't have for the first 20+ years of living in this house.) So, I got the time of 2 changes of the light to watch people walking between the SUVs and writing stuff down (probably exchanging insurance information.) When I got around the corner, I saw that the right lane was closed, but I decided to turn right at the next light and detour around the construction that way. Not too hopeful, I turned on the A.M. radio news station in hopes to hear the traffic and maybe learn a bit about the accident. Astonishingly, they actually reported that there was an injury accident at "Lamar and Rutland" well, that was OBVIOUSLY the accident in question since anyone driving along Lamar would KNOW Rutland and would NOT know the side street that I live off of. Now, I was nearly hit by a jerk doing probably 50 in a 35 MPH zone who I'm pretty happy to think would in a few moments would discover he had just landed in a HUGE traffic snarl at the next light. So, while I don't know what exactly happened or WHAT they were constructing at rush hour on a MAJOR thoroughfare, I did actually hear about it on the radio - I guess better after the fact than not at all. Of course, I was too busy LOOKING to bother turning on the radio BEFORE I had passed it. So... anything interesting happen on your way to work?