I drove to work this morning at about 9:30. In any normal city that would mean no traffic because rush hour has passed and normal people are at their normal jobs being normal. Not in LA.
As everybody in the world knows, LA traffic is ridiculous. It's comical with traffic jams at 1am on a Tuesday for no apparent reason.
But you always wonder why. When you finally get through the traffic rarely is light shed on why. Every once in a while you will be fortunate enough to see the remnants of a car accident. I don't mean that car accidents are great to see, but it's just good to know there's a legit reason why your ass is stuck on the freeway for an hour when you're only travelling 5 miles.
Today I discovered a new "why" and I feel like I should have seen it coming.
Like I said, it was 9:30am. I was travelling north on the 5 (Route 5 for you peeps back east) and it was bumper to bumper. Not because of rush hour. I wasn't even headed towards the city (as if that matters.) I sit there for about 15 minutes, inching forward when I see some commotion on an overpass. There's a cop car and a group of people. My eyes suck so I can't tell from a distance what the hell is going on. I make the mistake of using logic and deduce there must have been an accident that caused something to fall to the highway below. I get closer and closer and eventually I see that the crowd on the overpass is a crew and they are filming something. Probably something lame. But that is all that was going on. Just when I think they had nothing to do with the traffic, I start to pick up speed. The traffic starts moving. There's no more traffic.
Why was there traffic this morning? Because rubbernecking in LA means looking to see if there is a celebrity on that overpass filming a scene. That was it. No accident. No merging. No bottleneck. Just some stupid film shoot on some stupid overpass with a bunch of stupid drivers trying to watch with their stupid faces.
In case you're wondering I couldn't spot any celebrities. I tried. I even slowed down as much as I could to see. But no luck.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
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3 comments:
Some people take public transportation in LA so we don't get to see non-exciting film shoots on overpasses at 9:30am. But I'm hoping this isn't the case for long. Mickey Mouse, we want to work for you!!!
You are the only person in LA who takes public transportation
That's so true.
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