An open letter to FIU’s drivers

Photo by Adan Garcia, via flickr 

Jenna Kefauver/Staff Writer 

To the students who sit to the right of the turn lane and cut off lines of traffic in the turn lane,

You are irrelevant.

You are not important enough that lines of 15 cars should bow down and allow you to pass. You are single-handedly responsible for the traffic at the intersection of 151st Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard.

You are also single-handedly responsible for ruining my mornings. And don’t flick me off after you do it either. That’s just irrational.

And this is all from the point of view of a passenger. I can’t even begin to imagine how it feels to actually be one of the drivers sitting in that line. Maybe like my anger fifteenfold.

Maybe the cop who is sitting there at the other corner of the intersection could, I don’t know, do his or her job and stop this from happening? Um, yeah…that’d be great.

But I do understand. Miami traffic sucks, maybe you’re late for class.

But you know who else is now late for class? The plebeians you cut off in your royal Trans Am with your awful spinning rims.

I get it; you think you’re important.

But you know what?

I don’t care if you’re Lebron James, you can get in line like the rest of us.

jenna.kefauver@fiusm.com