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Crazy female driver throttles a crossing guard...
Yeah, that would be me. One of these mornings I'm going to completely lose it on this woman. There's a four-way stop right at an elementary school (the same one that had a Valentine's Day dance) that usually gets pretty backed up with traffic. This morning the woman stopped traffic to let a group of kids cross, these are young kids so you know they walk slow, and kept traffic stopped to wait for a straggler that was a short distance away. I don't get why she didn't just keep the first group on the corner to wait for the other kid. She does this all the freaking time! Or she'll stop traffic to let one group cross, and then a minute later stop us again for another group. Am I just being mean and selfish wanting her to make groups wait a couple minutes so they can all cross together?
Amelia is going to be a big sister!
Re: Crazy female driver throttles a crossing guard...
I thought this was going to be some horrible story about a drugged out lunatic mowing down a crossing guard for some crazy reason. (I guess it could be if things don't get better, except you wouldn't be drugged out!)
Four way stops piss me off whether or not there are children present. People don't understand the method of "whoever gets there first goes" and then everyone follows in clockwise order (unless two cars can go at the same time). Adding in a crossing guard would send me over the edge.
When I was in elementary, we only had a crossing guard at a stoplight (busy street, not a corner) and she would wait until she had a decent amount of kids to hit the button. The rest of the streets in about a half mile radius of the school were monitored by 4th/5th grade safety patrol. They were taught that cars win, more or less.
No you aren't.
I believe this actually makes the situation even more dangerous for the kids. Why would they want a back up of traffic every single morning and have tons of cars just sitting around? This usually causes people to slam into one another.
The only crossing guard I ever drive past (and that only by accident if I forget it's school time) stops traffic as soon as a single kid arrives at the crosswalk. It's not a busy street, so traffic doesn't really get backed up, but still it's annoying.
I'll watch for that headline. When it happens, it'll be like I know someone famous!