Well, not locusts, exactly, but it is rather plague-like. The students have returned, and the Powers That Be have decided to extend move-in from one day to an entire week. Oh joy! When it was limited to one day, traffic was ungodly awful, but because it was only one day, it was easy to rearrange my schedule so that I was not near campus. Now, that’s not possible. On top of that, no one seems to have even a basic understanding of how stop signs work, and all along Jordan, 10th, and Fee, pedestrians just wander into the street whenever they feel like it. Dumbasses!
Oh, and to make things more exciting, some of the roads that were recently repaved have not yet been painted. It’s all sorts of fun to watch out-of-towners trying to navigate the unmarked streets, since they don’t know where the turn lanes are supposed to be, or even if there are turn lanes. Hello Dude in the White Suburban! Could you please scoot over a few inches, so that I don’t have to wait through three lights for you to get a chance to turn left? I’m sure the other 87 cars behind me–all of which also want to go straight–would appreciate it, too.
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