Attention all students! Attention all students!
Do you hate being late for class and getting scolded by your teacher for it, especially when it is not your fault?
Being late is bad enough, but it is even more irritating when you are late not because you were talking to your friends too long or going to the bathroom but because the people in front of you seem to have nowhere to go.
Everybody has had the unfortunate experience of being stuck behind somebody who must not have a class to go to because they’d be late, too.
You try to go around them sometimes, but usually, they take up all of the room on your side of the hall (and yes, you should stay on the right side of the hall—it’s rude to go against the flow of traffic).
You look at your watch, horrified, as you know you will be late for your class on the opposite side of the building.
Some teachers claim you can carry your books for two classes at a time, but when all of your classes are on opposite sides of the building, you have little choice but to go to your locker. I’d rather be late than carry three calculus books, two English books, and five history books (and don’t forget that every teacher wants an individual notebook too).
Until we can learn to beam ourselves from class to class (with time talk, too), we have to go to our lockers.
So we have to travel from one class to another with a little more conversation than, “How are you? How was your weekend?” and the reply, “Great!” and we’re still late! Why? Because of the slow people in the way.
Even if you don’t have anywhere to go, please be courteous to those of us who have class and can’t afford to give up thirty minutes of sleep for detention, and get out of the way because we’re coming through.