Aaaaah, freakin' dots!

This is supposed to be about my experience looking for apartments, but there’s on thing I want to get off my chest before I begin. Freakin’ dots on the highway! Ok, I feel better. Now let me explain…

Pennsylvania is a long state. It’s a very long state. It’s really too long of a state. When driving through such a long state, the last thing that you want to experience is a traffic jam. We had two such traffic jams during our trip though Pennsylvania. The first one was long and boring, but at least it had a legitimate cause – road construction. We sat through the jam and finally got to the front to discover that the holdup was caused by a lane closure. I’m fine with that. What I’m not fine with was the cause of our next traffic jam.

We were nearly out of Pennsylvania. New Jersey was no more than 20 miles away when we hit traffic jam number two. It was annoying. All traffic jams are annoying. Alas, we finally got to the front of the miles of stopped cars and began moving again. There was no construction. There was no accident. So what caused the traffic jam? You guessed it, freakin’ dots on the road!!

At one point, white dots began appearing painted on the roadway. These dots were accompanied by a sign that instructed drivers to “ensure a safe distance, remain at least one dot apart.” (Or something to that effect) The dots were effective. Quite effective. Every vehicle was slowing down to make sure that they were maintaining the proper distance. And it caused a freakin’ traffic jam. Aargh…that was so annoying. We were held up for an hour because there were white dots on the road.