On Thursday, I'll be driving three hours for a meeting that might last as long as five hours, then driving another three hours home.  That's a total of six hours of travel for a five hour meeting.  I think we, as an intelligent, economical society, should create a rule regarding this.  Perhaps as follows: 
Rule 1:  "Travel time for a meeting shall not exceed one-half of the proposed length of the meeting."
That way, I'd only be allowed to travel two and a half hours total for my five hour meeting.  Alternately, my meeting would have to last twelve hours to make up for the six hours of travel time.  In that case I propose an amendment: 
Rule 1a:  "What are you, kidding?  A twelve hour meeting?  Don't you people realize meetings waste money?"
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