Happy Memorial Day to you!

I don’t work the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. Let me tell you why.

 

Back in 2000, I was working on Long Island, living in Queens, and dating a girl from New Jersey, who, of course, liked to spend the Memorial Day weekend with her friends on the Jersey Shore. SO of course, being the great boyfriend that I was, I committed to getting to her house on Friday night to go to the shore.

 

First, it took two hours for me to get home from work, thanks to a trucking expert who was able to jack-knife a tractor trailer truck right in the middle of the Long Island Expressway. My usually trip home was about 30 minutes.

 

Second, the normal one hour trip to New Jersey became a three hour stand still. At the time I had no cell phone, so it was a most unproductive three hours. This was also before GPS systems were popular, so at least I didn’t have to

 

After arriving in New Jersey, I became the passenger for a two hour ride to the Jersey Shore. At least I wasn’t diving for that part and I wasn’t alone.

 

Total car time – seven hours. Yuck.

 

Since that year, I’ve taken the Friday of Memorial Day weekend off from work. I live in New Jersey, and I make the trip to the Jersey Shore long before the rest of the world. Total trip time 2009 – one hour. Yes, it’s with the same girl. Things change, but they stay the same.

 

Enjoy, and stay safe this weekend.