I had to come home a couple hours later than I usually do last night due to some extra work that needed to be done. No big deal. It should only add about 10 minutes to my commute, right?
Normally that would be a true statement. However, the gods of fate decided that day would not be a normal day. Some guy in a compact car decided that it would be a good idea to cut off a truck carrying an oversized motor home. This resulted in the truck having to swerve to avoid the car and the motor home ending up tipped over on 1 1/2 lanes of the 3 lanes of traffic. Translation: a traffic tie-up.
Not only that, but in the slowdown that occurred afterwards, there was a lady who's car stalled in the middle lane of traffic. So there were people that were having to avoid the middle blocked lane in one section of the backup and then everyone had to avoid the motor home that was being moved back onto the trailer in another section of the backup.
As for the guy who caused the truck to swerve in the original accident, I hope he had to pay for the damage to the motor home. It would serve him right after all the problems that he caused.