Wet Drive to work

Driving to work in the rain

Oh what a we day

Window wipers can't clear the spray

We must just press on

What a start to the new day

 

In the outside lane passing a truck

Held up by a slow moving car

Spray from truck wheels

Just has to be seen

 

The whole carriage way

Disappears in mist

Just follow that car

He's just past us

 

Travelling too fast for the conditions

Its big car and heavy

His tyres can cut through

Water on the road

 

Squeegeeing a nice dry strip

For me to use

Once past the truck

The spray is so much less

 

In fact it is zero

All the faster cars are away

On their journey

To another days work

Reviews

[Stella Armour]

Not much fun driving on the motorway in those conditions , and always some fool driving too fast.

Glad i don't have to use them, nice steady journeys for me ... hassle free; well unless there are any foreigners about who don't signal their intent and think it's ok to cut other drivers up.

I often go the long way round, just because i can and then i can enjoy the scenery .

[Wild Rose]

Thank you for the comment/review We use Mways on long journeys Our is a larger vehicle; I/we travel at the same speed as trucks - Cruise control on (Also have a speed limiter I use around town Specially on long straight sections
We avoid towns where we can Places like York are a nightmare the signs are too late to get in the correct lane Carlisle now has a northern bypass> all roundabouts we don't go so fast on there

[Stella Armour]

I have cruise control and a speed limiter ... have never used them , as i said my time is my own so i can afford to enjoy my driving.

[Wild Rose]

Speed limiter is set So I cannot go over the speed limit by accident
Cruise control you just watch the traffic - when quiet the countryside
We are retired and have a motorhome
Soon we will be off to Scotland _ about 90 miles of Mway to Sterling at 50 to 55 mph then country roads
We could finish up at Jon'o groats (Jan de Groot the original name _ Dutch or Scandinavian;John the Great)
Don't know how long we will be away > WE will have three months medication with us

[Stella Armour]

have a lovely time, a motorhome sounds delightful :)

[Wild Rose]

We met in 1961 married 1963 - Both cyclists took to camping and fell walking

We have all mod cons Central Heating, shower etc

[Stella Armour]

I was first married in 1967 and 3 children by 1973 so we used to love tent camping until we got flooded one time in Wales and then we progressed to a touring caravan, and then the children lost interest as they got older so that is the only camping i have experienced lol

[barleygirl]

The thing I like the most about your poem is the topic. I’ve never seen anyone write about this before & that’s my favorite thing about good writing. I love the way you are showing the many lovestruck & heartbroken poets that we can write about LOTS of things in everyday life with great imagination! As I read this, I’m reminded of the multi-chapter piece I read recently & your penchant for describing things in an almost mechanical way. Not that your expressions are mechanical, but that you have an analytical viewpoint, so you’re describing the strategy that you’re using as you pass this drenching big-rig. It’s really amusing to me, becuz I was a mechanical writer for 30+ years & I have this tendency, too. I’ve emulated many of the more nuanced writers on this website to try to be more sensory & less cerebral. It’s a lifelong journey, I’m sure! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Wild Rose]

Thank you Margie For such an analytical review - I was a passenger so managed to get the shot > My navigator wife would not take such a shot (too busy watching out with me) today our son was driving
Mechanical writing> 50 years of engineering [apprentice to lecturer] describing machine type objects >>> Many thanks for the hugs > wish we could swap them in real (Kisses XXXXX )

[Paul Bell]

Nothing worse than being behind an HGV in the rain.
Motorways are just one hassle now.
The fun of driving has gone.

[Wild Rose]

I was a passenger in sons car > our is a motorhome & we sit higher above most of the spray - there again we travel at about the same speed as most of the trucks - just changed from a 4x4 and caravan -- you should see the spay from that
Agree driving in UK is not the same
We/I like the continental Mways - only 2 lanes but less traffic except in Germany

[Ghost]

This was a good poem about the annoying consequences of nature and traveling... I really hate the spray of snow and slush in the winter time... Thank you for sharing

[Wild Rose]

I was a passenger > The car just in front was really travelling too fast for the conditions

[Samuel Dickens]

Under those conditions, it's wonder anyone makes it to work. When young, my good vision and
feelings of invulnerability kept me plowing through that wet fiasco without fear, but now it scares me to death. You make it all so real that I find myself clinching my teeth. Perhaps we could be picked up by one of those new little drones and flown to work.

[Wild Rose]

I was a passenger so driving > once in front of the truck is wasn't too bad

[sette]

roads are slippery during this kind of weather so drive carefully

[Wild Rose]

I was a passenger > Yes son driving > it is part of his job

[sette]

okay point taken