Have you ever been walking behind someone, and they’re walking ridiculously slow? At the same time, there is no way to pass them or get around them. Students find this situation frustrating, and it can cause a bit of ‘road rage.’ Some students have decided to take matters into their own hands when they experience this.

“Don’t walk slowly; it’s annoying,” junior Luci Dees said. “I may flat tire you on accident, or possibly on purpose. It drives me insane. They (students) cause issues and get in my way.”

Other students agree on the annoyance it causes when people walk slowly and clog up the hallway, and have different ways of dealing with it.

“Don’t walk slowly and talk with your friends,” sophomore Anika Anderson said. “If you do that, I’m gonna plow right in between you.”

Slow walkers aside, students display other hallway behaviors that label them as ‘hallway etiquette offenders’. People who walk on the wrong side of the hall and interrupt traffic flow. An easy solution to improve traffic flow is walking on the correct side of the hallway, students agree that walking on the right side of the hall is the most effective.

“People should walk on the right side of the hallway – It’s just like driving on a highway,” junior Brighton Streeter said. “We stay on the right side because we’re Americans, and America is special.”

Most students agree that the right side of the hallway is the correct side to walk on as it comes naturally, considering Americans drive on the right side of the road. If someone drives on the left side of the road, it can cause a traffic jam; the same applies to walking in the hallway. 

“If too many people walk on the left side, there’s gonna be a big problem,” Anderson said. “Like running into each other, there’s gonna be traffic jams.”

Some students don’t care about hallway etiquette and don’t think there is a ‘correct’ side to walk on; however, the majority agrees that the right side is the correct side. With the majority in agreement, another issue is what students should do if they have to cross traffic to get to a classroom.

“If you gotta get through, wait for a little gap – there’s nothing worse than awkwardly bumping into someone,” Streeter said. “I’d rather stop and wait for a little while than make everyone else angry for jumping in the way.”

This statement is echoed by many other students; however, one student has a different solution.

“I think that we should put little bubble mirrors in the hallway so we can see around the corner, so that we’re not bumping into people,” sophomore Emma Bear said. “I constantly run into people on the corners, and it’s really awkward.” 

Walking on the wrong side of the hallway, barging through people, and bumping into others frustrates and agitates other students. 

“It makes me frustrated when people walk on the wrong side of the hallway,” sophomore Maddie  Valdez said. “I bump into them [students] or have to avoid them.”