If you're gonna close the roads, then fucking work on them.

I drive a lot. I live near Philly, work near Atlantic City, and play hockey twice a week near New York. On the way to hockey games, I usually stop and pick up my pal who lives in Monmouth County because he can't drive. It's pretty safe to say that I'm all over the state of New Jersey every week. I've seen a lot of roads.

I've also sat in lots of traffic. During rush hour I don't get mad at it, because I fully expect it. Lots of people want to get home from work. I get that. But nothing is worse than sitting in an hour of traffic at midnight when it should be nothing but you and the open road all the way to your destination.

When this happens, it's usually because roads or lanes are closed off for construction. And that makes my blood boil.

After sitting in traffic for hours I used to speed past the workers without looking over. I was convinced that the cause of all the traffic was that rubber-necks in the front of the line had to stop and look at what was going on, so I did my part by cruising to the open part of the road.

But now I stop and stare.
I wasn't ready for what I saw.

Out of the 25 guys on-hand to "work", there were maybe two guys performing actual labor. The rest of the guys were split up into groups along the road. Smoking cigarettes. Eating hoagies. Waiting in lines to use the porta-potty. Telling jokes and laughing. I even saw one guy on the AC Expressway laying face-up in fresh asphalt like he was trying to make a permanent snow angel.

I wanted to drive my car across the median and take some construction vehicles out with me.

There's 500 cars backed up at midnight on a weekday, and these lazy fucks are sitting around playing with their dicks when they're supposed to be fixing the "problem" that they themselves are causing.

I understand that you work shitty hours and your job includes physical labor, and everyone gets to take a break at work. But not all 25 of you at the same time. This is what you signed up for so fucking do it. The NJ Turnpike doesn't need to be backed up for six months straight so you guys can have somewhere to go at night to escape your home life. Get the job done and move on to the next one.

Or else just quit and go get a different job. Maybe find one where you have to drive home through two hours of unnecessary traffic, then get to watch guys hanging out and laughing when you get to the end of the line.