Ramblings of a Sorta Single Mom

Do they teach school crossing guards how to do what they are supposed to???  Now this might seem really strange but after dealing with 2 on my way to work for the past few months I seriously have to wonder.   Hopefully this will make sense but here’s why:

Crossing guard #1
She stands guard at a fairly busy intersection.  The road I drive down (Presidential) comes to a stop sign to cross over a fairly busy road (S. Plaza).  Now S plaza is a very very busy in the morning as everyone from that neighborhood is on their way to work and leaving the subdivision.  Trying to cross that road in the morning is kinda like playing frogger for those of you who remember the old Atari game.   Now the crossing guard will stop traffic driving down S plaza to allow kids to cross the road and often times will allow for those of us waiting to cross over the ability to do so while traffic is stopped.   Now here is my confusion.  I’m sitting on one side and there is another car on the other side.  The guard indicates to the car opposite of me to go ahead and they more often than not are making a turn crossing directly in front of me.  It would be a left turn for them but they are going to my right.  At the exact same time she turns to me and indicates for me to go forward!!  Now I knwo the laws of traffic and technically I have the right away.  But she just told the guy on the other side to go so he has aready started?  Am i to floor it and try to beat him across??  Umm no.  And when I patiently wait for the guy to turn she is waving frantically at me to move.  Um hello?????  I seriously do not need to have an accident at the moment and it’s not like they will say it’s her fault. 

Crossing guard #2
This guard also stands on Presidential just about 2 blocks after crossing S Plaza.  Directly to the left is the entrance to the middle and elementary school so she helps with kids crossing into the school from the subdivision across from it.  She apparently finds it necessary to direct traffic even though at this point, there is literally never more than 2 cars there at a time.  More often than not I am being stopped to allow another car to cross or turn in front of me.  Wait seriously, we are the only 2 cars on the road and it allows them a turn in a whole 2 seconds faster.  Was it really necessary to go through all that??  Is it really that difficult to allow the normal flow of traffic since it’s not congested in any way or causing any delay.  I could understand if we were bumper to bumper and stopping to allow traffic to cross in but man, for one car? 

Ok, so I should stop ranting. I just deal with this every day and sometimes want to stop and just ask them “Why???”.