Seriously? You want to cross NOW?

I have noticed an unsettling trend lately. People have decided to cross the street in front of the high school whenever they want. Eighteen wheeler rumbling down the street? Not a problem. Two lanes of traffic? Eh....they'll stop. Obviously, their inability to distinguish moving cars from stopped cars has made my job more interesting. It wouldn't be so bad if a student messed up once and started to cross at the wrong time, but when faculty starts to risk getting plastered to the pavement, it makes you wonder. Maybe my directions aren't clear enough. I won't pretend that I give perfect instructions every time, but I have my back turned to the pedestrians when they cross. I am pretty sure I never gave them any indication to cross. Then there are also the people who run up to the very edge of the street and stop. Of course this means that the traffic on that side of the street comes to a sharp stop. So now one lane of traffic is moving, the second has stopped from fear of hitting the pedestrian, and the third is giving me the evil eye because they have been waiting for so long. Good job, you just managed to mess up the entire system. I understand you may be in a hurry, but so is everyone else. So cool your rockets and simmer down. And most of all, don't be an idiot and try to cross the street when that SUV has you in his sights.