No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

I'm a mostly law-abiding citizen. Other than a few hi-jinx in my collegiate days (which we will not go into at this time), I'm pretty much on the straight and narrow.

After today, I may consider taking a turn to the "dark side".

Here's the story: Today, I was driving along a two-lane road in NC. This is a pretty busy road for all that it's a two-lane. Construction signs warn me of a flag man, so I slow down behind the other cars and finally come to a crawl. There's the flag man, and he's telling the two cars in front by hand motions and waving his STOP/SLOW sign that it's time to stop, the road becomes one-lane and the other group of cars is about to come through.

The cars in front of me IGNORE the flag man--actually go around him!--and continue on. Me, being the STUPID-ASSED LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN that I am, I pull over and stop. Now I'm at the head of a 5,000 mile-long line of traffic and we have to sit and wait for all the other cars coming from the other way and from off the side-roads in-between to pass.

I sat there for 20 minutes. I'm not kidding! I timed it. This wasn't the "minor inconvenience" of road construction. This was total bullshit! What kind of setup is this? I've never, ever been in such a silly and stupid setup--ever. This wasn't major construction on the Jersey Turnpike or something, this is BFE North Carolina on a rural road.

All I could think about was, "If I had only gone past the flag man... if only I'd ignored my law-abiding little voice and listened to the EVIL VOICE..."

But, no. And what did I get from it? Twenty minutes in 98 degree humidity (Oh, XCircMan, it's SOOOOO NASTY!). Bleah.

Next time, the heck with it, I'm breakin' the law! Done any law-breaking yourself, lately?