It's a typical school day. I wake up, get ready, make myself a mug of tea, you know, the usual. I deny the thought that I might be late for school because I have a specific time I know I will leave. Traffic is running smoothly and the CD that has been in my car for months and months is playing (only because I am far too lazy to find another one). I get to school and the bell has just rung. I have a few minutes to get to class before devotion comes on over the PA. I rush to my locker to retrieve my books only to find the most gruesome display of what looks like two people eating each other's faces...
I, like many others who attend Lutheran North will agree that EXTREME public displays of affection throughout the halls and even in the classrooms are repulsive and slobbery. I am sorry to all those "cute" couples in school but believe me, no one wants to see you up against the lockers and rolling around on the floors. LHN has created the motto "Face to face and leave some space" for all the dances and personally, I think that motto should be acknowledged in the halls as well.
About 10% of the time I’m late for class during the school year. This would not bother me normally but when it is out of my control and teachers refuse to accept my explanation of why I was late and mistake the truth for a lie, my options run low. Just today as a matter of fact my first hour teacher refused to accept my brief description of what I had witnessed taking place in front of my locker. I tell her, “It’s not my fault! I was only late because two people were pretty much trying to suck the soul out of their significant other on my locker! I’m convinced they’re dementors” (reference Harry Potter). But no, my teacher just won’t swallow the truth.
Later during that same day as I made my way toward U.S. History, I noticed two students who were walking so slow and taking up 90% of the hallway with their arm span while holding hands. I hated breaking up the love fest but I just couldn’t bear being late to class again. I swear I forewarned them! I announced I was coming through but do you think they would move? Oh no, these halls belong to only couples nowadays. I was going to be late so what could I do? I ran for it. I broke through their arms feeling more like I had just run a race and broken through the ribbon that awaits a champion, than someone who is late for class. I turned around to yell out a small apology and to my astonishment they both gave me a look of hatred. WHAT THE HECK! Would you want to be late just because some people decided to take a little stroll down the hallway? Save it for the parks, the beach, the sidewalks or streets. This is a hallway, owned by the school…NOT YOU.
Another thing I should mention, Lutheran High North is based on the teachings of Jesus. We have devotion, chapel, and faith class. We all believe in our savior and are told to act like true Christians but from what I can see in the halls, half of the students in our school appear as if they have no recollection of the word “Christian”. I was always told that’s actions speak louder than words and if I were just someone observing the school, I would assume from the action going on in the hallways that these kids are not real Christians.
Please read this and remember PDA isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but when it interferes with other people’s schedules, lockers, hallways, and not to mention, stomachs, it becomes a great annoyance. Respect that everyone goes to this school and has to see you doing whatever you do (I’m still convinced it’s a dementor thing). And not only do people around you notice, but God does too. Keep it PG please and thank you.
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