short cut not so short

so my commute sucks. balls. the suck ballsiest part of it is the first 2.5 miles of it in the morning. at my old job, i still had to do that same first2.5 miles but i left considerably earlier and had no traffic woes. but ya know, i am just too damn tired to get up and leave the house by 6:15 every morning. so now i sleep in until 7 which is nice because that is when everyone at the house is up. its much better to start my day with some baby hugs and kisses. because i leave later when everyone else is leaving, i sit in traffic trying to get onto the freeway. so i have come up with a short cut that actually adds an extra 3/4 mile or so to the trip but if its gets me there quicker then hey. so today i have found that at least today, my short cut is no quicker. just as i was changing lanes to go toward the short cut i saw a lime green honda element stuck in the traffic. i said, ewww, why would someone get one of those in that color? then i went on my merry way. as i was finlly merging onto the freeway the honda element came right up beside me. hmmm. i don't know how i feel about that.