To start off let me say that I get our roads need to be taken care of, but I have spent too much of my young adult life sitting in road work traffic.

Ever since high school I have grown accustomed to the big bright orange signs and the cones that are put just slightly over the white line so you think you are about to hit them. I can think on many occasions the time I have seriously considered how much trouble I would be in if I did. Whether it was driving to school in Richmond or driving to a friends house in Midlothian or basically anywhere that seems to have a massive population I have encountered countless back ups during the most random times of day and night due to these projects.

Now I know that we all pay taxes and I should at least be happy that I am seeing physical evidence of things happening. But I also feel like I drive down these tiny yet busy roads with two lanes and endless potholes with no road work and then begin to question the system and get the "Tear in My Heart" song by Twenty One Pilots because he also seems pretty angry about these potholes.

It seems that no matter where my life journey takes me I always find myself passing the roadwork cones and trucks. Regardless of the interstate or which direction I am going it never seems to take more than a few times of me driving that way before one day I am stuck in traffic trying to merge into a lane with people who are frankly just too petty to let that happen. This might actually be my biggest pet peeve about my luck with road work because merging with people is the bane of my existence. I believe there is a certain fate for people who know full and well that the lane is ending but choose to try and get in front.

For now Richmond, I understand things have to get done and maybe you cannot be to blame for my terrible run ins with road work traffic but I do have to wonder to myself if in my next 20 years it will ever end.