The hallway is a place for students to travel back and forth to class. It is certainly no place to goof around, run like the wind, or stop to chat with your friends.

I certainly don’t like to come off as rude or mean, but this is something that irks me to the extreme.

As a senior in high school, I am officially over my stop-traffic-in-the-hallway conversations.

However, some people are not.

When you want to talk to your friends, go to the side of the hall. There is no reason to come to a screeching halt in the center of the hallway only to speak with a friend or two.

Perhaps you wanted to perform your awesome secret handshake? Go to your classroom and do it or get out of the way.

Other students don’t want to push through you, but that’s what you force them to do.

That being said, the side of the hall doesn’t mean group up in numbers so high that the traffic has to go around you. Do not crowd around a single locker with 10 or 15 people to party. Your group takes up half the hallway and then everyone is late to class.

Lockers are to store books, purses, coats, and other personal items. They are not a gathering place.

To those who enjoying galloping through the halls, you need to go to the track for that. When you sprint through the halls to your classes you bump into other students as if they don’t exist.

What if you behaved this way while driving? You would find yourself in an accident.

The halls are not a highway, and there sure isn’t a passing lane. If you want to get to class, you should walk at the same pace as the rest of us.

Finally, the hallway is not a place for screeching. All the screaming and yelling in the halls is ridiculous. Why must some people act like animals?

When you reach high school, you are supposed to be beginning your journey to college. You aren’t in middle school anymore; it’s finally time to grow up.