In a way, I'm happy to be "retired" now from Corporate Life. The last 12 years of that life was spent on Wall St. So I would have to go through either the "Holland Tunnel" often (from my final NJ Office location to the offices in TriBeCa, where I used to work directly), or the NJ Transit Train Tunnels when I used to make the commute directly to/from NY Penn Station. This was before I started taking the Hoboken Train and the the NY Waterway Ferry across. All on the surface and above ground. After the big blackout of 2003, they bought a huge facility in NJ and transferred a bunch of us Techies to it (we really didn't have to be located with the users that much). And it preserved, at least in part, some of the staff from being "at risk" to another 9/11 attack. When we did need to go to TriBeCa to meet with a user, we had a free transport bus that would shuttle us between the NJ office and TriBeCa, via the Holland Tunnel (the NY entry/exit of which was within walking distance of our buildings). Now that I think about it, I am kinda relieved I don't have to to do that anymore. Probably wouldn't stop me from driving through another tunnel if I needed to, but I'd do whatever I could to avoid any such tunnel.Being mildly claustrophobic, I've often had that terrible feeling while in one of those tunnels..."What if this fucker collapsed?" No way out. Blowing a tunnel would certainly cause a mess. I avoid them when possible.
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