Traffic Jam...

I love to drive my car into the city. It's comfortable and has a great stereo system. Between satellite radio and the ipod, I can sit there all day!

Since we opened our new office, I've been driving into the city two to three days a week. The mornings haven't been bad. But, I learned that if you leave the city at a descent hour, it will take "forever" to get home. On most days, I've been leaving the city around 7ish.... and get home by 8ish....

On Valentine's Day, several of my staff members and I had a meeting in the city. We decided to leave the city by 4 pm to get home early to be with our families. My senior VP, Kristie, had her car and I had mine. She took home the publicity supervisor and I took home the new media director. She decided to go through the midtown tunnel and I made the mistake of going over the triborough bridge.

Over an hour later, I was still in the city and Kristie was in Queens. It took us over 3 hours to get back to our offices in Westbury!

I stayed calm and relaxed. Turned up the music. Smiled as people around me had road rage and happily got to know the new media director better than I did before.