Stand at roadside lollipop down by their side, pedestrian approaches and waits, lollipop persons scans the road and raises the lollipop to warn oncoming traffic before making their way to the middle of the road lollipop raised, waves pedestrian across road, thanks waiting traffic and returns to the kerbside.
Now it seams the norm is.
Stand at roadside and either spend 30 seconds talking to the pedestrians with no indication of crossing (ie. Raising lollipop and scanning the road) then just step out lollipop still unraised into oncoming traffic until finally raising the lollipop ( if they can muster the energy) and waving across pedestrian still talking and laughing with them. Or once spotting a pedestrian approach set off to the middle of the road (again not following the lollipop raising routine) with the pedestrian still 5m from the crossing then continue to stand in the middle of the road for minutes on end as new pedestrians slowly approach arround the corner.
Has lollipop school closed and you only need a 30min zoom course to earn your pop now, our local lollipops are atrocious.
I always had respect for them from growing up as a kid on my way to school to getting my first car but lately they just leave me with grumpy old man syndrome
And don’t even get me started on the silly dancing ones!!!
