Please tell me... where are all these...

If you can't see the subtitle, the question I'm asking in the title for this article is for someone to please tell me just where the heck all of the rats on the roads early in the morning think they are racing to?

Are they all just trying to be the first to get into the office?  If they are, they are surely losing out to the other rats (just like them) that all seem to think they'll be the ones to accomplish that task.

Racing to get to school?  Ok, reasonable idea I guess, but did no one ever tell these people that there are classes that run in the later morning, afternoon, and heck even into the evening hours.

I got out on the roads earlier this morning, heading off to do some early morning shopping at a time when I knew the regular crowd and rush of people wouldn't be jamming up the Wal-Mart store.  In this one particular case I can say I probably beat the rats at their own game, as most of them will likely be out jamming Wal-Mart in the 10am and later time frame.  I know avodiing the place around the lunch hour is paramount, and don't even think about going near there in the afterwork time frame either -- that's when all of the rats that raced into work early for the day are on their way home and have stopped to shop for items before going home to catch the early news.[more]

Did I mention early news on the TV?  Is that why all of the rats are racing to work so early??  Get to work early so you can then go home and watch the early news before your early dinner, and before you go to bed early.

What's the fascination with rushing into work early, rushing out of work early, and then rushing off to sleep so you can get up the next day and repeat the same process?

Honestly, I'm not a morning person.  I really hate getting up in the a.m.  Once I am up though I keep plowing through the work day.  I tend to stay awake at night, playing games on my Xbox 360, watching late nite TV, or perhaps watching a movie I've rented or splurged some of my hard earned disposable income on.  But, in all of that, I really don't have to rush anywhere.  When I get on the roads in the later morning, the traffic has dissipated.  When I go to the grocery store to get my 'breakfast' or 'lunch' and snag my Starbucks for the day, the lines are gone.  They were there much earlier in the morning, but in the late morning there's speedy service and no line to deal with.

I guess some of the rats are racing to work early so they can get home and pick up offspring and/or go watching sporting events or other extracurricular activities that they may participate in, assuming they can stay awake for it, which might be a tall order.

Oh well, if the rats want to keep racing, I guess that's ok by me.  I would really hate to see a bunch of them try out the late shift and then start jamming up the roads for me, or the lines at the Starbucks, or my favorite eateries and such.