It's Been Quiet

Good morning. With James back, it's actually been a quiet week. Cara is back with me to help, so there are two of us out front again (whew!!!), and there haven't been too many mishaps. A few but not many.

I did start putting a cone in front of the left turn lane coming out of the school, so that has stopped a few people from making that left hand turn. It is also positioned in just the right way that if someone is in the drop off lane & decides to go straight, they will run into that cone & they will have to stop. I feel a little better about that cone being there to avoid any confusion or accidents. It may be a mental thing, but it has stopped a few people so far.

Like I said, just a few minor things. It seems there are quite a bit of new people this week, so they aren't quite sure where to go or how things work just  yet. You can't give them a hard time about that.

On Tuesday, we had a woman coming from S. Firethorne on N. Firethorne & heading towards 1463, not dropping off. She stopped right in front of Cara & I, rolled down her window, & began yelling at us about the crossing guards at S. & N. Firethorne. She was saying that they don't know what they're doing, that they need to direct traffic better, that she doesn't have time for this, & this went on for a bit. We just said that we were sorry, but they know what they are doing, & to obey the crossing guards. She kept right on going, discounting what we were saying, then Cara simply said, "Listen, they are the crossing guards, they know what they're doing. It is the law to listen to the crossing guard or else you could get a hefty fine. Obey the crossing guards. Have a nice day." She drove off in a huff!

She must not have liked that very much because she stopped someone else, a non-crossing guard, to let them know the same thing.

I was telling this story to someone in the library yesterday & a G.U.I.D.E. dad was there & overheard me. He said that he saw the incident on the N. & S. Firethorne corner. The woman kept pointing at the crossing guard saying she needed to turn, even with the stop sign up. There were people in the crosswalk so the C.G. kept waving the stop sign at her. The woman kept pointing that she needed to turn. Finally the woman went around the C.G. & turned anyway!!  I guess right after that is when we got the earful. Oh well.

Today we had a woman who looked like she was coming straight through, but then put her turn signal on & cut in front of pick up line. She just got in line in front of all the people that have been waiting. That same woman tried to pass a lot of the cars in front of the school to get past them to come out of the school. Cara did have a conversation with her.

I did have a guy go around my cone this morning.... my new piece of mind cone! He was in the through lane, heading towards 1463, but didn't stop. He went into the turn into school lane and went around the new cone on the right! So that means he had to go into the school driveway a bit just to get around it. Luckily there weren't many cars or walkers at that point, so he wasn't a bother, but the point is that the cone is there for a reason.

Anyway, that's it for today so far. Nothing too exciting. New people are starting to get the hang of it, other people don't have patience & it is the crossing guards fault that they decide to come through a school zone on their way to work when there are several other ways to get out of Firethorne without even  having to go through it.

Have a fabulous day!! Be safe & OBEY YOUR CROSSING GUARDS.  ;)