which came first, the traffic or the road rage?

seriously, i don't get it. what is normally a 20 minute drive from my house to work, occasionally 30 if the traffic is bad, took me over an hour today. the culprit? a traffic jam. one of those slow, chinese water torture kind of traffic jams where you're always moving like two inches at a time. this is, of course, the worst kind of traffic jam because (a) you can't drive at the speed you'd like to be travelling, and (b) you're actually still moving, so you can't just put the car in park and stop paying attention altogether.

now, it's okay. i understand traffic happens. i accept that. what i don't accept is when traffic happens for no discernable reason. i mean, once i got on the highway i went about two or three miles and it took approximately 40 minutes. then, all of a sudden, as if tinkerbell just flew on by and sprinkled magic highway dust, the traffic jam was gone. there was not a large influx of cars trying to merge from the onramp, there was no accident, there was no police car checking for speeders. there was nothing. absolutely nothing. STUPID. YOU'RE SO STUUUUPIIIIIIID!!!

um, sorry, random uhf moment there...

but really, how did this traffic jam start? who's the moron that's the cause for all of this? because you know it's someone's fault. it was probably one of those idiots that gets on an onramp and then instead of actually building up speed so they can merge with traffic smoothly, they freak out and go about 35 because they're scared by the big mean cars on the black strip of death.