24-May-06
This is going to be a bit long because it needs some explaining before it is understandable.
I live in a small town of about 25,000. There is a college here. Many of the students at this college come from California. There are always a lot of comments about the dumb college students, mostly in refence to their driving because most of them have never seen snow and haven't a clue what to do when it is on the road, although some of them are just plain dumb and merit comments on just about whatever they do. This winter I started playing racquetball at the college regularaly. Half of the parking lot for the PE building in closed because of construction on a neighboring building. With the snow, the parking lot, and the zoobes (that is a local word for dumb college kids. I originally heard it defined like this "Those are the dumb college kids, you know the ones that walk out in front of your car at night, dressed in nothing but black and then bend over to pick up a dime, those ones.") I saw many very poor parking jobs and had a horrendous getting in and out of that parking lot. Well today was the graduation for the high school and they do it at the college. I didn't go but I was coming at the end to see all of my friends. I pulled into the parking lot for the the PE building and it was horrible. People were parked everywhere. It is the worest I have seen that parking lot, but the worest part was that there wasn't any snow so you could clearly see the lines and those parked there were the locals the ones that are always complaining about bad driving.