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✧ Dewey Defeats Truman ✧

"Dewey Defeats Truman" was an erroneous banner headline on the front page of the earliest edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune on November 3, 1948, the day after incumbent U.S. president Harry S. Truman won an upset victory over his opponent, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, in the 1948 preside...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman

I still have an hour and 20 minutes to go before I can head home from the office. Unfortunately I saw a news report that states one of the highways I sometimes take home is closed in both directions.

Shit.

Tanker truck carrying ‘several thousand gallons of fuel’ overturns on Route 3 north of Boston

That means that everyone heading in my direction is going to have one major highway option taken away from them, which means that we’re all going to take the same route, which means that the already brutal evening traffic is going to be 100% worse than normal.

Oh goody gumdrops. I could go North for 40 miles or so, but maybe today would be faster to go South and circumnavigate the globe. Just call me Ferdinand Friggin’ Magellan.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/15/the-evening-commute-blues/

#commute #eveningCommute #FerdinandMagellan #fuelTanker #roadClosed #RoadClosure #route3 #tankerTruck #traffic #truckRollOver