There are serious disadvantages to living west of Miller Park, whilst working east of it, exemplified by the turmoil caused by opening day traffic. The Brewers played this afternoon (losing to Atlanta, bringing our season to a 0-4 start). The game just let out.
Compounding the traffic woes, one west bound lane of the freeway is closed from downtown to the western suburbs. The Department of Transportation has kindly advised game goers to take alternate routes out of the stadium - alternate routes which just happen to be my standard alternate routes during home stands.
With gas rapidly approaching $4 per gallon, I have a choice of taking one of my usual routes home, burning extra gas while idling in traffic, or taking the freeway south and around, adding miles and miles to my normal eleven minute commute. And using more gas, of course.
Stuck either way.
It may simply become easier to train myself to like baseball, taking vacation days whenever there is a day game. Frankly, it may come to a point where a ticket, parking and the inflated price of a hotdog are cheaper than the cost of the gas I need to make it around the traffic mess.
Note: how can Blogger's spell check not think "hotdog" is a word?
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