Yesterday what should have been a nice easy day turned into hell thanks to Michelle Obama visiting the area. All I had to do wa preload a trailer for some geezer to deliver over the weekend, then load and go to Wilbraham MA, then home empty, it usually takes about 3 hours from NYC to Wilbraham and I left at 11.00am, 3 hours later I had covered 60 miles as I-95 in CT was Hell as is the norm in the evening but not mid day ! I-91 north was almost as bad at Hartford, the as I crossed the MA / CT line everything ground to a halt. Mrs Obama was visiting the Basketball hall of fame in Springfield and causing chaos. I eventually got to Wilbraham 2 hours before the appointment time but that makes no difference bacause they usually take me up to 12 hours early. I got home at 8.30pm, when it should have been about 6.30pm, it only takes 25 minutes to unload at that stop and 2 hours 45 minutes to home.
Presidential and VIP visits really ruin life for the rest of the world. I remember when Princess Diana visited Towcester years ago and I was not alloed to drive out of the culdesac I lived in for and hour which made me late for work, it’s the same the world over.
That whole part of the US wants cutting away, towing out to the middle of the Atlantic and sinking!! Preferably with all the idiots and their cars still in situ!