If I Had a Horn, I'd Honk It.

The other day I was walking. I wasn’t walking far, just downthe hallway to my next class. Its 48 steps – I counted. However; one “snail” makesthis task daunting, and nearly impossible. When I finally sat down at my workbench with my lab coat and my safety glasses, I found myself very irritated.Here’s why: people walk slowly. So slow, that in fact, I am almost late forclass every day, which is totally ridiculous considering the proximity of myclasses. I mean, come on! They’re all onone floor!

I’m not being unreasonable, I’m just asking for a littlerespect. Not just for me, but for the general population of the school, ofcourse. If you want to walk like turtles with your little friends, go for it. I’mall for you being late to class. But why do you have to do it RIGHT IN THEMIDDLE OF THE HALLWAY!? There is thirty feet of empty space in front of you,and about fifteen people blocked behind you and your stupid pals there whileyou goof off!

You don’t have to walk fast, but oh, I don’t know. MOVEOVER!

I know what you’re thinking. “Go around?” But you see, thereis no room. In my school, three guys can take up the whole hallway, wall towall. This is extremely inconvenient considering my school has 1600 people init.

And my favorite is when people text going down the stairs. There’salways that one person, who stands on the stairs replying to a text messagethat is “so important”. I just want to walk up to those people and say, “whyare you stopped twenty stairs from the bottom floor, texting? Why? What couldpossibly be so important that you can’t take those few steps to the last stair,and then take 2 steps away so that EVERYBODY ELSE can get wherever they’regoing without waiting 5 minutes on the stairs!?”

This is another one of those times when you can’t go aroundbecause there is a steady flow of people going up, and a massive group ofpeople TRYING to go down.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was a once in a while situation,but no. It’s almost every day.

So people, if you're a slow walker... Please... Get out of the way...