You pull your phone out of your pocket and you only have a minute to get to class. You’re three doors down and you think you can make it. There is only one problem. A group of people are walking as slow as molasses right in front of you. You can’t pass them and end up late for class.

As you’re going to your next class, it happens again, but now in a different way.  They are in a group in the rotunda blocking the stairwell or the walkway with one entrance and exit. All you want to do is walk right into their group and back out the other side, but there’s no way to get in because there are so many people in the group.

As you walk by, you give them a disgusted look and hope they don’t do it the next time, but sure enough they are there the next day. What is even worse is when you pass them, they come back and pass you and then walk even slower in front of you.

I know when I get stuck behind people that take up the whole hall and walk as slow as a snail, I start to talk to them and start to make them go faster.  If I have a group in front of me I go right through them, because they are taking up the whole hall and nobody can get through. The best thing you can do is to not show any emotion.  If you start to show that you are being annoyed by them walking so slowly, then they will just walk slower and slower.

Maybe the reason behind the delayed pace is an injury, which is excusable.  It is not fine if you are just holding up traffic.  It is illegal for you to text and drive, so why do people text and walk?  You have the same risks as if you were driving, crashing, or walking into someone.  Maybe they have a bad relationship with their teacher and want to avoid them and that’s fine, until it’s at the expense of my own punctuality.

We should put speed limit signs on the walls. We can have Officer Wooten patrol the halls, monitoring so that people keep the speed limit in the halls. We could have hall monitors who break up groups that clog up the halls. With this, we could put in lines dividing the coming and going lanes so that traffic could move faster. We could also create a fast lane and a slow lane. Just consider my ideas.  I want to innovate the way we walk in the halls.