Is Construction Really Necessary?

So, I had church tonight. My sister asked me if I could pick up her friend on the way, and selfishly, I said no because I just wanted to pick up my girlfriend and that's it. After redirecting her question to our dad, I ended up submitting to her majesty indirectly. I just didn't want to start a huge explosion of whose "plus one" was more valuable -- Mine. Sis can be a bit manipulative.
Usually, my drive to church is quite simple: Right on the 303, Left on Cactus, Right on Bullard, and I'm there. My wonderful thorn, Construction, had different plans. Closed road after closed road hindered my right to pursue happiness. If I normally make a bee line to church, this would have to have been a moth line. I darted this way and that.
Crazy, dyslexic drivers, for some reason, love roads with construction, too. If it says "Speed Limit 35", they read "Leed Spimit 53" and plow through the atmosphere. Ooh, lucky them there are no cops around. I, however follow as close to the limit as possible, and that one time I feel a rebel, I will be introduced to red and blue for the first time since Spy Kids 3-D.
The only issue that deserves attention is why the construction was there in the first place. I have been forced to go thirty-five on an otherwise forty-five road for a year and a half now. I have seen NO improvement in the quality of the one closed off lane for twenty miles. Thanks Construction, for hindering my punctuality.
Anyway, on my way back from church, I needed to head west. The one intersection I needed to turn west on was blocked off. YAY! U-turns have been stealing the spotlight from most of my other driving maneuvers of the day. They should be called, sorry-for-the-inconvenience-turns. So what, if I get to my movie twenty minutes late because of those wretched orange and white cones? Fifteen of those minutes where previews anyway. I'll live. Surely, all of this will pay off.

Some day in the future, I can look at the perfectly paved streets of gold and look forward to no construction.