Sheesh.

I drove through a school zone today.  When about half way through it, an
ambulance came up behind me.  I was in the second lane right of center.  The
lady on my left and just in front of me didn't see the ambulance.  I pulled
to the right.  When she saw it, she pulled immediately at a right angle to
the right curb.  Choreographed with the ambulance passing, she made a
hurried U turn, probably because she was going to make one anyway to pick up
her little packet of protoplasm from school.

Why is it that in school zones, people become like ants crawling all over
the place willy nilly, here to fro, no order, no sense, like a bunch of
third graders with cars.  (no offense to third graders)  Kind of like "Night
of the Living Dead" with people driving cars.

I progress to the 4 way stop sign.  To my right, the crossing guard leaves
the curb to march to the center of the street, to let the pedestrians cross
the street parallel to me.  I pull out knowing that the traffic is
supposedly blocked by this guard, but this lady comes off the stop sign to
my left, and drives in front of me, and past the school crossing guard
standing in the middle of the street, STOP sign raised, and between him and
the children waiting to step off the curb.

I have witnessed some absolutely pathetic driving behavior in school zones.
People lose their rational right side brains while on a mission to pick up
their packets of protoplasm from school.  It's like being in the Twilight
Zone where all normal rules are suspended in this special environment.
Double parking, cutting others off, lack of courtesy, MFFY to the max, and
just bone head maneuvers that get them one car ahead or save three seconds
in travel time.

I get so stressed.  Stress:  The mental anguish caused by not being able to
give some idiot the asskicking they desperately need.

We are in social decay.

Serious social decay.

Steve