Friday: Bad Traffic, Good Fish Fry

Yesterday was the kind of commuting hell day that makes me happy that summer is coming, and I'll soon have a break from 6+ days of commuting. Driving down, I thought that I was lucky because I was headed east on I 26. On the other side of the highway, an 18 wheeler lay on its side across the 2 westbound lanes, with cars off the road on either side. The interstate was closed down, with traffic rerouted.I wouldn't be headed back west for 5 hours, so I figured that it would be cleaned up by then. It was, but there was another accident by then. Happily, it wasn't as bad as the morning accident. Further up the road, another accident slowdown, even though it was cleared up and on the other side of the interstate.I left campus a smidge early so that we had some extra time to get to Bristol for the fish fry at Faith Lutheran. By the time I got home, we just barely had enough time to get there--until we got to the next round of accidents. We were 20 minutes late--I got there in time to thank…