I am a card carrying member of The Rules Don't Apply To Me Club.  I've removed the tags on my mattresses under penalty of law.  Yes, I have done other things that go against the rules, but since my kids may read this we won't get into details. 

During this current school year, the number of members in the club has been expanding and I'm afraid the results from the current membership drive are getting dangerous.  The group I'm concerned with for this article are those people that drop their children off for school in the morning in the parking lot at Park View Middle School in Mukwonago, so that they can avoid the line of cars waiting to drop students off at the school entrance.  They do this by exiting the parking lot onto Highway 83 and breaking the rules.

Now, I'm sure that these people have rationalized to themselves about how busy they are, or how late for work they will be or some other reason that allows them the right to do this.  They are surely much more important people than the rest of us.  Strangely, this isn't the reason that has me riled up against these VIPs.  The problem is that they are dropping their children off out in the parking lot and relying on their kids sense of survival and the alertness of both under and over caffeinated drivers to be on the lookout for them.  This is the tricky part, because there are already two lanes of cars dropping students off.  Once these two lanes drop off their children, the lanes merge and cross as cars jockey for position to get into the left turn or right turn lanes for exiting onto Hwy NN.  This is the same area where the kids are darting out between parked cars to cross to the school.  Damn lucky no one has been picked off yet, but recently there have been several close calls.

The school district could also do something to prevent this.  When the new flow pattern was developed, they put marks on the parking lot for the placement of cones or barriers that would prevent drivers from being able to get to that exit from the main lot.  Maybe they will have to resort to using those, hopefully before someone gets hurt.

Mukwonago High School has it's own set of members joining the club.  There are two lanes that run in front of the high school.  The right lane, which is next to the sidewalk is for drop offs.  The left lane is for cars that are going past the cars and buses dropping off.  The first set of anxious club members are the ones that stop all traffic and drop off from the left lane.  It helps to speed them on their way, because after all they are too important to be bothered with good sense.  The second group at the high school are the drivers that need to turn right onto Hwy NN, but don't want to wait in line with all the other cars that want to do the same thing, so they use the left lane, that has few if any cars, and cut in as both lanes make a left turn to head toward the intersection. 

Some of these actions by the members of The Rules Don't Apply To Me Club are putting lives in danger and some are just plain rude.  As the year has gone on, more and more idiots are following this disturbing trend, because they have seen enough people doing it that it must be OK.  Since their children are seeing all of this, we can probably expect that the next generation will fill the club.