Horns honking, display of middle fingers, and crosswalks being ignored by everyone; this is a scene pulled straight from the student parking lot. As parking at school is nothing new, now with the total number of 934 freshman here on campus and the lack of available parking spots, the school and parking lots have become quite more packed.

It should be obvious that the freshman would ride the bus or be dropped off in the parent-drop-off parking lot, hence the name being parent-drop-off. But no, they are continuously breaking the unspoken social rules along with a glaring sign declaring it the student parking lot. It seems as though car by car parents are slowly taking over the student parking lot and making it their own.

The majority of people believe teenagers are easily the worst drivers, yet these grown human beings seem to prove that belief wrong. Some of these adults cut students off, park in front of student’s designated spots, and slow down the entire system, while after school is no better as the seniors with half days leave these parents to take any available opening they can fit their suburban mini vans into. In turn, making it difficult for those senior and juniors with full schedules to navigate cars clustered everywhere.

Then there are the unsung heroes, our very own security guards, who have tried on countless times to prevent parents from dropping off their precious cargo. Yet, it is almost seemingly impossible to reach and prevent the masses from breaking the rules.

To get to the point these parents dropping off their sweet little children who take decades to get their stuff are the epitome of low. Every time I drive through the parking lot I want to slam my head against my steering wheel. I just want to get to class, let me get to class; make mine and every other student’s life easier by parking/dropping off where one is supposed to be. Do not even park in my spot, is my parking pass for my specific parking spot hanging up on your mirror? No that is right, it is hanging up on mine.
The unfortunate truth to all of this is that there is basically nothing we can do to prevent this catastrophe. Parents will still drop off their kids in the most inconvenient places. Some of you will still be late to class because of constant halting due to dropping kids off. You will still get cut off in the parking lot either by soccer mom on the phone or angry dad rushing to work. There will still be horns honking and wheels screeching. The world is a frustrating place, what can you really do about it?