You leave your house at 6:20 a.m., but school starts at 7:20. You pull up to Rolling Road at 6:30, still 50 minutes before school starts, and there is not a parking spot in sight.
Rolling Road is the busy street in front of the school where a lot of juniors and some sophomores park in the early mornings. It has always been an issue that people are arriving early, but this year, especially this semester, things have really gotten out of hand. The first person to park shows up at about 6:15, over an hour before school starts. Every single morning it is a fight to the death to squeeze into a gravel parking spot.
On late Wednesdays, people still arrive at 6:45. In case you didn’t know, school starts at 8 o’clock. They just sit there picking their noses for over an hour, or listening to the radio. You can show up to Hillside at 7:15 and still get a spot.
People have tried numerous times to say, “Hey guys, let’s not show up at an ungodly hour and sleep in like normal people”. But then, one idiot says, “No, I’m showing up at 6:15 and for no reason.” 50 students think, “Wow, if one car shows up at 6 there won’t be a single spot for me!” People, Rolling fits more than 3 cars!
Don’t even get me started on the parking jobs. There is always about three cars every single morning that park like completely idiots. They are either too close to the ditch, too close to the actual road, too close the car in front of them, too close to the car behind them, or they park smack in the middle of two cars and refuse to scoot up causing an entire parking spot to go to waste.
It’s only going to get worse next year. The rumors are true. By the start of second semester next year, the entire senior parking lot is going to be gone. Seniors, juniors, and some sophomores are going to be starting a bloodbath for a spot. Even some faculty members are going to need to find new places to park, meaning Rolling! Remember the start of the Hunger Games, where everybody was around the cornucopia just demolishing each other? If you thought that was intense, you haven’t seen anything yet.
Seniors, count your blessings, juniors stay strong, and sophomores get ready because it is going down.