Doug! Tamer of Chaos!

[gridlore]

I got a very nice compliment this morning. The school where I've been working all this week is on a small residential street, with my station at a crosswalk right in front of the school.

The issue here is I'm trying to cross over 200 kids at the point when that street is choked with Suburban Assault Vehicles. The school itself has an army of volunteers trying to get these cars in and out quickly.

It's pretty amazing to watch this quiet street go from empty and serene to Times Square on New Year's Eve crowded and back. My job in all of this is to get all these kids across the street.

But I also have to watch traffic flow. I've been hopping trying to group kids to cross and then allowing cars to thin out. This morning the teacher in charge of the circus told me I was doing a great job of traffic management.

I also might have destroyed a 5th grader's chance of ever getting a prom date. Busy day.

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[digitalsidhe]

Okay, I just have to ask about the prom date thing. I assume they don't have a 5th grade prom, so you thin you may have destroyed this kid's chance at getting a date for prom in high school... what, 6-7 years from now? The mind boggles. What happened, and what did you do? Inquiring minds need to know!

Congrats on the terrific traffic management, too.