When have you been opposed (against or just going in the opposite direction of) to thousands of people?
Tonight was a Razorback home game, and coming home to my home sweet dorm I was opposed to countless thousands of people who were all trying to leave the university premises and I was trying to access them.
The main roads leading towards the mainer roads that access the interstate are all turned into one-way only superways, so Hsu and I are forced to find a way to make it into university land. Last week was a fiasco as it took twenty minutes to go about half a mile on a stretch of road 300 yards from our dorm, and another ten minutes to go twenty feet on a stretch of road 100 feet from our dorm.
Tonight was slightly better; we took an interstate exit down-wind you might say of the happenings and caught an initial red light as a solid line of headlights streamed down Wedington Drive (you can google maps it if you'd like!) as far as you can see without letting up in two lanes for several minutes, as cars from our interstate exit aligned themselves into two rough lanes on the one lane exit ramp to facilitate the leaving. Once we got a green light, it was wonderful until we got up near the road we hoped to turn onto. It was turned into one of those super bypasses, so we had to take a smaller road. And we still couldn't go the way we wanted, so we had to skirt the long way around campus, but eventually we made it, with really a lot less stress than most home game day traffic adventures. Seriously I don't think I've ever seen that many cars, let alone driving amongst them, so it was a big shock the first time it happened xD
But as I said, everyone was leaving campus, and only a few of us diehards were trying desperately to gain entrance to it. It's kinda mean of them to block off our routes, but it's understandable.
It's also easy to see how riots get started at big college towns (Fayetteville is a large town for Arkansas, but I don't pretend to consider it a big town in terms of the whole United States) when you have that many people so close together.
