Signs are for reading....

For those of you that have the same duty of dropping your kids off at school each morning, I know you will relate to this.  Each morning around 7:45am I drive to the school, take my turn in line in the circular drive way/parking lot, and send my child off to the wonderland of 6th grade.  Each morning the same thing happens.  There is always that one person.. the one who doesn't pay attention to the signs all around them.  

This circular driveway parking lot in front of the school is my daily test of patience.  Who would have thought that in all the things that could happen in a day, this certain area of pavement decorated with white lines could be my enemy... I suppose it's not fair to blame the parking lot, but rather the people in the cars that line it every day.  Why do you ask?  Well, let me tell you.  There is a sign right as you enter that says..  (anyone? Anyone know what it says?).. it says "Please pull all the way forward before stopping".  It says this, because if you don't, you create a long serpentine of vehicles that can't move around you.  They must wait.  The entrance is narrow, and if you turn juusssst right, you can maybe squeeze past but only in...well.. a Smart Car.  So each morning I pull up and just as I think it may be avoided and everyone will read the signs, and we'll all drive happily into the sunrise.. it happens.  The flow of traffic STOPS!  Out jumps that oblivious parent, to not only drop their child off, but get out and escort them the, oh I don't know,  5 feet to the front door of the school.  The dance of the serpentine begins as each new car pulls up and we create a line a mile long.  Not only has this parent not read the street sign..but not read the clear sign that they are holding up traffic.

Today, as I sat there, grumbling to myself I wondered what all the other cars were thinking.  Were some of them mad and yelling?  Were others just as oblivious because they had other things on their minds?  Were some grumbling just like me or simply laughing at the sheer irony of the "please pull all the way forward" sign?

I could stay mad, I could get "circular driveway parking lot rage" and lash out but what good would that do?  Instead, I began to laugh.  I realized that I too, need to pay attention and read the signs.  My sign for today?  Clear as the morning bell before school...Patience is a virtue.  
Take your time today... Love -T♥