School drop off and pick up zones are the most deadly and lethal things out there. It is crazy what some people do while in a school zone. It's as though people lose all common sense when it comes to dropping off or picking up their children. Only the elite can survive and not be the bane of teachers and administrators.
1) The school has a drop off and pick up plan for a reason. This is not some frilly piece of paper to get buried amongst everything else at the beginning of school. Pick it up, study it, and please follow it! They put this out so traffic flow will be smooth and easy for everyone. Those people who do not follow it (let's for the sake of conversation call them morons). Morons hold up the traffic line and piss everyone else off because they think they're special and can do whatever the hell they want. Is it really so hard to go around and use the turn lane. Is it?! At our elementary school, the administrators have specifically told parents not to use the stop signed street across from the back entrance. Come down the main street and turn into the school. Can parents do that? Nope. They feel they should be allowed a three way stop to enter and feel it's shorter. It's not. It holds up the line, and then you jet across the traffic to ensure your spot essentially stopping in the middle and blocking the entire road. Please stop!
2) Your kid can walk the extra 30 feet to his building. During drop off, you always have that one parent who doesn't want their kid to walk too far. They will always be in the middle of the traffic line where the 5 cars in front and 5 cars behind let their kid out to go in the building. This one special person doesn't let their kid out, drives up an addition 30 feet when traffic starts moving again, then lets their kid out which stops all those other people behind them who are done. You and your kid are not that special. He can walk the extra 30 feet.
3) Do NOT honk, get out of your car, or have a 5 minute conversation with your child before you decide to pull out. Get in, get out and go is the correct philosophy.
4) Use a legal cross walk. If the police and road crews blacked out the crosswalk you want to use, there's a reason. It's not safe. Go around and use one of the ones in the traffic plan (yes, follow the traffic plan!). If you are going to cross in front of me and I don't see you because you are not in a legal crosswalk, do not get pissed when I almost hit you. It's your own damn fault.
5) Please be nice to the teachers and administrators. They are trying to have everything run smoothly. It's not their fault some moron parent can't follow directions. Be nice to them!
6) If it says no left turn 7am-4pm, do not turn left. Take a right and stop cutting off others!
7) If you are going to continuously cut off people everyday so you can get an extra car length in front of everyone else, please take the Christian Church sticker off the back of your car. One, you're not doing your church any good by cutting people off then advertising you are a good Christian. Two, it makes your car easily identifiable so I will take every opportunity to piss you off since I know you are going to pull this shit everyday!
Or if you're like Andrew and I, leave early every day to skip the drop off fiasco and leave late every day to miss all the craziness that is pick up. I may be one of the last ones to pick up my kid, but at least I follow the traffic plan and don't cut anyone off.
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