Doomed Sunglasses

I haven't even started the job yet and this happens!

To be a crossing guard, I needed 4 hours of training. One hour was spent watching a power point, but the other 3 I had to shadow another guard.

The first hour at the middle school was uneventful. I got the basics and asked a few questions. Then we moved to the intersection at Easterday and Ryan by Lake Superior State University.

And that’s when it happened.

The driver was a college student by his LSSU shirt. He left his sunglasses on top of his car. As he drove through the intersection, the sunglasses took flight and landed in the middle of the road.

The college student promptly pulls a U-turn.

Parks his car in the left turn lane.

Gets out.

Runs into the intersection.

Without looking.

All in a vain effort to save his sunglasses from getting run over.

They get run over just as he’s reaching for them.

He scoops up the pieces and returns to his parked car.

There is now a car behind him. Probably wondering WTF.

The car door won’t open.

Luckily, the back door opens and college student gets in.

Remember, he’s in the left turn lane.

He turns right.

And disappears down Easterday’s hill.

All the while, the guard training me and I are watching. Like, dude, we could have stopped traffic for you. It might have saved your sunglasses.

This was my first sign that this job was going to be way more interesting than I ever thought.

Thanks for reading. See you at the next intersection.

~Patricia J.L.