It was YOU!!!!

"Everybody outta my way! Commuting student coming through!"

That's my mentality, well, sort of. Okay, not really. I'm a nice driver. In fact, today I went out of my way to let somebody into my lane, knowing that he would have wanted to hop over by the time I would have been side by side with him. I don't like those situations. So instead, I slowed up and let him in, no doubt irritating the drivers behind me. But something happened today that had me up in arms. However, the outcome proved to not be in my favor.

I was driving along the road that runs between the townhouses and the outdoor basketball courts when I noticed 2 students walking toward campus. One of them was walking right next to the curb; the other, far enough into the road that I could not pass.

The two students had a good thirty feet to go until the stop sign, which is close enough so that, even if I did go way out of my way to pass, I wouldn't have enough time to get back into my lane. I don't doubt for a second that they heard my car approaching from behind. So I slowed up, expecting the one in the road to, oh I dunno, get the heck out of the way. But no. She didn't. They kept walking at a snail's pace to the stop sign. Once I got to the sign, a car across the intersection also pulled up. The other car thought they stopped first, when clearly it was me. So I started to go, and at the same time, the other car moved, too. At this point, the two girls turned around and looked at me as though I was an idiot, smiled and laughed.

I lost it. I was going to go park my car, track them down, and dress them down for walking in the middle of the road and being rude. They were walking slow enough that I saw they entered UHB. Fair enough--I was heading there, too. When I entered the building, I saw they hopped onto the elevator... possibly heading to the third or fourth floors. Crap.

As I topped the stairs to the second level while heading towards my first class - there they were, heading the same direction as me.

Do I say something to them right now? No... I wait. See where they go. Of course, they entered the same classroom I was heading to. Crap (again). So I chose not to dress them down as I had planned and instead let it go. I noticed that whenever I looked over at them with disappointing eyes, they immediately looked away. Maybe that's enough. I just didn't want to start any classroom drama.

So that's how my Wednesday started. I wasn't too pleased. College kids need to realize that they're actually adults need to start acting their age.

~N.