Whenever I’m driving, I appreciate a good traffic delay, as long as it doesn’t make me late. I tend to leave at a time where I’ll be 20 minutes early if I need to be somewhere, so a modest delay for traffic just adds some extra excitement to my day. I love examining the traffic shockwaves caused by road work and such as well. I look forward to my morning traffic now that a road I drive on is a work zone.
Additionally, traffic is just super cool and human. Its the perfect balance between predictable and unpredictable. Also when I’m in really dense traffic I enjoy hanging out with all the other cars too, like I have some (very temporary) friends. and when I exit the highway, I always tell the traffic still on it “goodbye, have a nice day!” even though they can’t hear me
lastly, when I get somewhere on time despite the traffic, it feels so good. It energizes me and makes me feel like I’ve gone on a grand adventure. Sometimes I’ll even take detours through the gravel county roads and such and that makes for quite a wild adventure as these often get backed up as well when others have the same idea as me.
edit: by within reason I mean like a 10-30 minute delay. Additionally, I’m not a huge fan of congestion on roads with traffic signals, but on the motorway where we’re all going 5-20 mph consistently its fun
Immediately reminded me of When you Drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRUUUj4IU48
“When you drive, you practice mindfulness of driving. It is possible. When you stop at a red light, you look at the red light and smile. You look at the red light, you smile, and you breathe in and out, and sit back, relaxingly. Breathing in, I calm myself. Breathing out, I smile.”
“And the red light become a friend, become a bell of mindfulness. Something unpleasant become something pleasant. We have the habit energy of wanting to arrive. That is why we want to go as quickly as possible. But according to this practice, we arrive at every moment. Life can be found only in the present moment. Everything that we look for must be found in the present moment. Peace. Joy. Happiness. Buddha. The kingdom of God.”
“What is our final destination? If we abandon the present moment, our final destination may be our death. We don’t want to arrive there, we want to go in the direction of life”
I’ve always hated traffic. I just keep reminding myself that we’re all just trying to get home or get to work or something. The important thing is to get there in one piece.
I think you need to see a therapist. Tell them you like traffic, they’ll know what to do with you
Congrats, that’s a real unpopular opinion
I’m speechless. Congrats, to me this is unthinkable lol
I don’t agree but I can appreciate this opinion.
I also leave at a time where I’ll be 15 to 20 minutes early.
It still stresses me out when there’s a traffic delay, because I’ve no fucking idea how long this traffic delay will be and if it exceeds my extra time.
I wouldn’t mind it so much if I wasn’t dealing with the worst, most homicidal people on the road.
I live in a small midwest suburb so people are generally pretty chill. There is the occasional person who passes on the shoulder but nothing major
A 30 minute delay is totally not within reason.
Well, when I was getting my driver’s license I loved traffic, but only because I have anxiety when driving and traffic was a nice relaxing break from stressful driving.
When I had to drive for work I enjoyed it but only because I was getting paid. In my private life I have better things to do.
Yup. That’s an unpopular opinion alright. You could say you’re down for killing babies and I think I’d agree more than this current unpopular opinion, lol.
You’d rather kill a baby than sit in traffic? Cancelled!
