Every student lives the story. You’re sitting in class when you feel the familiar buzz of your cell phone. Your heart beats with excitement as you imagine all the possibilities and wonderful stories that may be contained within that text message. However, you are a good, respectful student who wouldn’t dare interrupt class for something as trivial as a message from your best bud, which I’m sure is just littered with important information and facts that could not possibly wait until the end of class to be read.

Finally class ends, and all of a sudden, as if a siren went off in the brains of every student on campus, the cell phones come out and the texting and talking commences.

I don’t have a problem with either to be honest. My problem comes from people who refuse to split their concentration between two things, such as texting and walking-which, by the way, are two things that should be done together as often as blow-drying your hair in the shower.

I know your buddy has something important and intelligent to tell you that could not possibly merit stopping to read and reply. I also know that classes are so incredibly far away from each other that there is no possible way you would have time to take 30 seconds to stop and reply to the message.

Instead, you take the low road and stare straight down at your cell phone as you hope that your primal instincts will guide you to your classroom without the aid of one of your most important senses.

Because of this, I’m initiating a new campus-wide policy beginning today.

I give everyone permission to purposely run into a texting-walker whenever it is possible. Honestly, it will be easier than getting a parking ticket. They will be too engulfed in their text messaging to care where they are walking. You texters should consider it proper punishment for doing something so incredibly disrespectful to your fellow students.

We all have places to go and not much time to get there, so pick up the pace when walking in the middle of the sidewalk because Lord knows you won’t share it with anyone else.

Not only is it disrespectful to your classmates, but it’s also highly dangerous. I’m not sure you thought things through the last time you walked across a crosswalk, QWERTY keys in hand.

I doubt you’d be capable of telling your “BFF” via text messaging that you have a Chevrolet emblem stamped across your chest because you were too busy responding to your frivolous message to notice the Silverado coming directly at you at a speedy 10 mph. My guess is that getting hit by a large, metal object would be the only way to break students of this trend.

I know your social life is more important than campus etiquette, but please, stop walking through crosswalks without following the golden rule that everyone learns in first grade. Look both ways before you cross the street. Seriously, people, this is college.