Where I live, the interstates have HOV lanes where cars with more than one person can drive in it, but it is restricted to cars with only one person in them. I usually commute alone, and as I am stuck in the lanes for everyone, I always glance over to see the HOV lane… It is rarely backed up like the other lanes, and the cars in it just cruise past on their merry way. When the interstate it packed, super crowded, and going approximately as fast as an inchworm, I sit in my car and dream of ways that I can get into that wonderful moving, speeding, functioning lane. I could be the asshole that gets into that lane with just me in my car, and I have often contemplated this. Sadly, what stops me is the fact that I have really shitty luck when it comes to cops and getting tickets, and I don’t want to get pulled over and given a ticket, not the fact that it really is just bitchy on my part. I have often wondered if my dog would count as an additional person in the car, I mean, he thinks he is a human, and he does sit in his own seat and wears a seat belt…. But I don’t really know if a cop would agree. I also was thinking I could get one of those blow up dolls and put a wig on it and strap it in the seat. I think, that with tinted windows, I just may be able to get away with it! What a great way to help reduce time sitting in traffic. Just pull the doll out of the glove compartment, blow it up, put the wig on it, cross over that forbidden solid double line, and… Voilá!!!! I magically have access to the oh-so restricted and tantalizing HOV lane!
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