{"id":283,"date":"2005-02-25T21:28:55","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T03:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2005-02-25T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T03:28:55","slug":"i-know-my-wichita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"I Know My Wichita"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a map of the route that we took to work yesterday. Brian’s ridiculous way of getting me to work is marked in red. My suggestion is marked in green. And this is yet another example of why women are far superior than men.<\/p>\n

Why in the world didn’t we just take the canal route (I-135), you might ask?<\/p>\n

Well.. If you live here in Wichita, you’d know that yesterday was one of the foggiest days ever. As in, you had visibility only up to your nose. Naturally, these crazy Wichita drivers continue to drive recklessly anyway.<\/p>\n

Whenever Brian drives me to work, we usually hit the Sonic that is just North of the 37th and Woodlawn intersection. From there we take Woodlawn to K-96, then K96 to I-135 South, exit on 1st and 2nd, and then voila! I’m at work. It’s a pretty short, easy drive.<\/p>\n

Not yesterday, though.<\/p>\n

There was a car accident that cause cops to block the on-ramp from K-96 to I-135 South. We didn’t actually find this out until we finally crawled to the end of the line.<\/p>\n

Since K-96 ends (as you can see on the map), we didn’t have a choice but to take I-135 North. Our original thought was to exit and loop back to take I-135 South but then while driving North we noticed that traffic on I-135 South wasn’t moving at all. It was bumper to bumper and the cars were totally still. Think of LA traffic on a really, really bad day. Like when aliens are about to take over the world like in the movie Independence Day. I-135 South was definitely out of the question at this point.<\/p>\n

Brian’s idea was to take I-135 North, which hits I-235, so we could take that freeway South. There’s a Broadway exit on I-235 so I told Brian to get off there. My idea was to take Broadway to downtown Wichita, which is a straight shot. I mean, I figured with the foggy weather conditions as they were, we’ll more than likely encounter other wrecks on the other freeways. Besides, it’s common knowledge that everyone else takes the freeways to work so it gets trafficky during rush hour anyway. Brian insisted on taking I-235 all the way around to Kellogg (US Highway 54) and then taking Kellogg East to the Central Business District exit.<\/p>\n

Irked, I go “Can you get me there in ten minutes? I can guarantee you I can get from I-235 and Broadway to my work in ten.”<\/p>\n

Brian goes, “But that’s 40 mph with stop lights. We’re going to go 70 mph with no lights.”<\/p>\n

Notice how he cleverly avoids saying that he can beat, or even match, my ten minute time challenge. He knows he can’t. He’s just rationalizing at this point.<\/p>\n

If it’s trafficky and there’s wrecks, you can’t go your full 70 mph anyway. So what good does using the freeway do? Nothing. It just aggravates me.<\/p>\n

As we’re passing the Central exit, I said to myself “We would’ve been there by now had we taken Broadway.”<\/p>\n

Just to prove my point I call Nick to find out if Broadway was trafficky. He lives by 29th and Broadway so he takes Broadway to work everyday and it only takes him ten minutes. I got voicemail.<\/p>\n

We finally get to Kellogg which, despite the newly constructed fly overs, is trafficky as I expected. Brian begins to realize that I’m right at this point but refuses to admit it. It really annoys the shit out of me when people just can’t admit that they’re wrong.<\/p>\n

I told Brian that I will prove to him that my way is better so I’m posting it here. We’ve got both routes mapped up. I must say, it’s pretty obvious isn’t it?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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