Students crossing in front of The Ville Grill are particularly careless in the intersections.
By Noah Allison–
A certain something changes in an individual when they move away to college. They attain a new found sense of accomplishment, a real can-do attitude and an arrogance that puts their life in danger and holds up traffic.
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it in the first month or so of this semester: hordes of students walking in front of green lights and a line of impatient cars that would be more than glad to teach them a lesson, if it weren’t for the legal repercussions of jail time that would follow. People from the ages of 18 to 23 suddenly forget or purposefully disregard all the skills of being a pedestrian that they’ve acquired throughout their lives. Whereas at one time in their lives they would simply wait for that convenient walk signal to let them know the coast is clear, they now feel the need to tell the car they are crossing the street whether its appropriate or not.
The impatience of many students just doesn’t make sense. There are too many individuals who walk out in the street, pace unchanging, head phones in, too cool to care about anything else, all because they have the right of way. The car or cars are going to stop for them because of the simple fact that they have to.
The stupidity of the arrogance is what offends me the most; it is as if as soon as an individual finds a way to pay for their college tuition, they are suddenly invincible. They assume that the car will always see them and that they will always stop, and if they don’t then it’s the driver that’s screwed. The , yeah; last time I checked it’s the person getting hit by the car that get’s screwed over in the end. Because being here on a college campus we know that nobody who is driving could have their attention taken away by other things like, oh say, texting, eating, smoking (not just cigarettes), cranking loud music, conversing with friends in the car, or simply just being way too freaking drunk to drive a car. But don’t worry, even though its dark out and they have all that going on they will still find time to go from 35 mph to stopping suddenly just for you to get across the street.
Cars are dangerous and they are always out to get you, and I see too many people taking unnecessary risks with their life all just because they are impatient. Human stupidity is ultimately one of the largest causes of death in this world, and I don’t want to see anybody ruin or lose their life because they were stupid enough to think traffic is always going to stop for them.
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