Learn The Rules

I was walking to my locker after the last class of the day a couple days ago, and I was going down the stairs right across from the Physics. I suppose I could phrase that better: I was trying to go down the stairs right across from the physics hallway. I couldn't actually go down them.

Why, you ask? Well simply put, there was a mass of people walking 3 to 4, right next to each other, in a line, all the way up the stairs. This was seriously happening. I don't know how you can be doing this and not see the immediate problem it causes, but these kids were oblivious to me, and other kids both in front and behind me, trying to fight through their mob of gossiping, cackling, shrieking harpies to get down the stairs.

It wouldn't even have been as infuriating as it was if they were freshmen, but they weren't. They were for the most part sophomores, and even a few juniors. How do you go for the high school for 2 or 3 years, and not understand how the stairs work? In fact, how have you been alive for at least 14 years and not yet figured out how stairs work? If you're taking up the ENTIRE STAIRCASE going one way, then no one can go down the other side. And I hate to break it to you, but not everyone is as interested as your bff on what that girl who you just hate said she was going to tweet if someone else liked one more status of the guy she likes on Facebook, least of all me. One of them even had the audacity to give me a dirty look, as if I were the problem for trying to go down the stairs and interrupting her from telling everyone within earshot about something so important that it was in fact completely necessary to block off the entire stairs in one direction. Idiot.

These are the same kind of people who stop walking in the middle of the hallway when they see someone they know. Listen, as dumb as this sounds, there is a flow when people are walking in the hallway, there has to be when that many people are moving in a collective direction. And when you just stop dead in the middle of it all because you saw your friend and you just HAVE you update her because there is just SO much going on and it must be, oh gosh, at LEAST 43 minutes since you last saw each other, that causes problems for everyone behind you both, walking in both directions. Stop it, just don't do it. Tell them later, or text them if it's really important enough to hold up every person in the hallway.

Another thing, to the people that put their heads down and power walk around corners: You are asking to get walked in to. I understand that in your world nothing else matters but you and the place where you apparently have to be as quickly as humanly possible, but here's the thing: You're not all alone in your own magical fairy pixieland of do whatever I want. You're in the real world, in a real school, with other real kids, to whom it is an inconvenience for you to come hurtling around corners like some sort of animated cannonball. And definitely don't give me a death stare like it's my fault for intruding on your space. Which evidently encompasses the entire school and world. Other people exist, keep your head up when your walking you narcissist.

Look around the corners. Don't stop in the middle of the hallway to shriek at your friend. And stay on your side of the freaking stairs.

Learn the rules. For the sake of mine and everyone else's blood pressure.