Posted on 11/02/2013 11:02:24 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
“Honest, I just have a cold!”
Meanwhile, they look like patient zero of the zombie plague.
Are you an overnighter also!? Is your sleep completely and totally screwed up forever, and you hate everyone?
They tend to sneeze on whatever it is that they are about to hand you. I keep a five gallon dispenser of hand sanitizer with me at all times.
“Possessed of a burning rage towards all day siders whom the third shifters would one day rise up against and drag screaming off into the evernight as was prophesied!”
Night owl by nature but forced to perform unnatural feats of endurance by converting to daylight hours come Tuesday.
Then Friday it is back to my natural “undead apocalypse” rhythms.
Not that I hate everyone, just the annoying ones who feel we all must be blessed with their rap “ music” at volume levels guaranteed to cause hearing loss and their concurrent inability to navigate a straight line while piloting a weed whacker on wheels.
This is interesting-
“The Federal Highway Administration issued a report in October 2011 designating the Tappan Zee’s replacement to be a dual-span twin bridge. The new bridge will be built on the north side of the old Tappan Zee, connecting to the existing highway approaches on both river banks.”
They think 1.6B in NY is going to pay for that? That’s a freaking down payment. Maybe.
Clorox wipes are stocked here.
Humanity, not naturally nocturnal, has reduced immune system responses from third shifters.
Regardless of what our internal clocks tell us.
I have been blessed by 7 on/off since 1998. Mondays are my flip day, either going into or coming out of.
Every Monday morning I walk outta work and swear to God I will stay up until bedtime so that I can rejoin the world on Tuesday. This has not happened ONCE in 14 yrs.
Earplugs, baby, earplugs. It takes a little getting used to the feel, and getting them in just right, but then its heaven.
It is also supposedly going to have the ability to have rail traffic tacked to it in the future.
Or so several studies said.
Whether that is still on is unknown to me.
A total replacement for this state at pay rates they do for substandard union nonwork is in the realm of forty billion initial outlay rising into cost overruns after ten years, project lasting thirty.
Or perpetually like Pennsylvania’s route 80 or the thruway in NY.
“It is open but not truly completed!”
I don’t care what the side effects of overnights are, its infinitely better than day shift. I can get shit done at night!
I’m lucky that I live slightly off the beaten path.
My neighbors are cows.
Sleep is okay.
It’s getting there that is the trick.
“Welcome to NY! Enjoy the scenery, stay because you’re in Westchester medical because some kid pulled a Tokyo drift on the highway into you!”
Have you ever gone down 84 in PA past Harrisburg near York? That part of 84 is the absolute worst driving experience I have ever had in my life. It’s dirty, depressing, two narrow lanes surrounded by concrete. The truckers drive like animals and the entrance ramps are about 20ft.
Don’t you get a little pleasure while you’re driving home knowing that all the other cars on the other side of the road are just starting their hell? Ahahahaha!!
I hear that!
I usually only have to deal with this at my job, “uh..uh...is route 80 in here?”
“Here” being a locked truckyard in NY sixty miles north of route 80 and looking nothing at all like anything but a truckyard.
I try my best not to remember those drives.
Much like I try to forget the thruway north past Albany.
Or the Pulaski skyway with the ramps to the center/lefthand side.
Or being stuck anywhere near Scranton.
(A bigger, dirtier version of Port Jervis NY.)
Route 222 with the kamikaze maneuvers..
How far are you from Chemung? I love Chemung!
*snicker*
Yes.
I will admit to that guilty pleasure.
Especially in the snow.
Doubly grateful I don’t have reason to hit the Crappan Zee in those conditions these days.
(Yonkers, the only place where you can witness an articulated bus parking in the middle of snow covered intersections and have four cops powerless to say boo about it.)
I went to college in Buffalo and did the Thruway all the way til the end about 500 times. Its gotta cost like 50 bucks in tolls now.
Between Middletown and “beautiful third world newburgh”.
Not familiar with Chemung off the top of my head.
Probably been there but wasn’t paying attention.
Been told I’ve been to Rhinebeck, don’t recall being there.
I hope they don’t hire the same clowns to fix their bridge that Barry hired to fix his Shopping Experience Marketplace “website”.
The only negative about the snow thing is that when you get to your car in the morning its buried. Inevitably, a snow plow has pushed the all freaking snow in the parking lot up against your car on all sides.
And then there’s the drive to work at night. No one cares what the roads are like at 10pm when you’re going in. They don’t get started on making them drivable until the middle of the night.
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