Verbal High Fives

I live on a university campus. The recent February floods cut off all of the university's main access roads to our town, leaving just a single country lane to serve as the only route onto campus for thousands of the students. This same lane has to be traversed by those of us who live on site but work elsewhere. We are the unfortunate souls who must routinely imperil our lives to travel like salmon against the flow of student traffic along this narrow country lane.  The posted speed limit for this lane is 20mph but the students tend to view this as more of an optional, casual suggestion rather than the law. They hurtle down that lane, flooring it as though they have just heard breaking news there is actually toilet paper back in stock at Aldi and they’re trying to get there before it all sells out. My main issue with them speeding on this lane is less about them breaking the law and more about them potentially breaking my face with their car. There are only two places in t...