A Little Courtesy On The Road Please

I get up every morning to take Alyssa to school.  This year, she had the brilliant idea to take zero period so she could have some free time and be done with her classes at 1pm before softball practice.  This means that her ride, me, gets to get up at 5:30 every morning to be ready to go by 6:20. 

Now, I thought that at this hour most of the city would still be sleeping, well at least most of the high school population anyway.  Who knew that so many kids would be taking zero period? 

Before I even reach the high school, the traffic starts lining up.  Kids anxious to get to school on time, parent anxious to dump, oops I mean drop their kids of and be on their merry way to work or wherever else they need to go.   Me, I'm ready to leave the house early enough to get my daughter there ahead of schedule but with all the primping and running around she does, we don't leave when we're supposed to.  So there I am driving cool as a cucumber and she's fidgeting in her seats anxious and hoping she's not late. 

Once I drop her off, I head out to leave the parking lot and this is where my frustration starts.  There's a line of cars in the front of the school that have already made the drop off who are trying to get back onto the street.  Then, there's the line of cars in the street who are trying to get to the front of the school to make the drop off.  I enter from the street to the side of the school so I avoid all the pre-drop off traffic but I need to leave through the front of the school where all the traffic is.  The process seems simple to me,  one car in, one car through, one car in, one car through.  But, that's not how it works unfortunately.  People are so not courteous like that.  No one in the line from the front of the school wants to let those coming from the side in and no one in the street wants to let those coming out of the school in.  Traffic backs up because there is no where to go and everyone just sits there getting frustrated.  When there is a gap between cars, everyone tries to squeeze through and it creates a bigger mess.  It cracks me up how the people who won't let others in, see you but pretend they don't.  You can see them looking at your car from the corner of their eye.  Hello?  I know you see me!

If everyone just learned a little bit of patience things would go much smoother and we'd all get on our merry little way a little faster.   Please be courteous when driving.  The one car you let through will not affect your travel time that much and you might even feel good about doing a nice deed.  Be careful though it could become contagious.