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I had an annoying run in with an "activist" crossing guard today.

On my drive to work, I go through two school zones, one in Watertown and another in Belmont. I made it through the Watertown without incident today.

In Belmont, they didn't have their blinking lights going. On that road and the other thickly settled roads that pretty much go on a straight line from Watertown Sq. to Waverly Sq., they don't have speed limit signs, so I actually go around 25 mph. So going by this school in Belmont, I went 25 mph because the school zone lights were off.

All the sudden, at the cross walk where the crossing guard lady usually positions herself, she jumps in front of my car and gives very ambiguous signals. I slam on the breaks, stopping in the middle of the crosswalk. While people walk across the crosswalk, the guard points at me and gives me this disapproving look. After the people cross, she comes close to the car then walks over to the passenger side. My girlfriend opens the window. The crossing guard tells me to watch my speed because I'm going by a school. I tell her that the lights weren't blinking. She says that she doesn't care, I should be watching my speed limit because I'm going by a school.

You know, I can understand her viewpoint to a degree, and that's why I go 25 mph instead of 30 mph down that stretch of the road. Nonetheless, the lady pretty much jumped in front of the car! Even if I were going 20 mph because the lights were blinking, I would have had hard time stopping as fast as she would have wanted me to stop!

It's very annoying. . .and with all the bad drivers on the road this morning along with stupid obsessive compulsive thoughts in my head, I believe the cosmos has something against me today.