These are the people in your neighborhood

This afternoon, as I was driving into Valenciennes, I passed a school that was just letting out. Here, the police man the crosswalks next to schools where there is a lot of traffic. As I approached the crosswalk, a policewoman had me stop and motioned for a big group of elementary school students to cross the street. Almost all of the kids that crossed the street insisted on shaking the policewoman’s hand as they passed her! There must have been like 20 kids. The policewoman had started with her arms stretched out parallel to the crosswalk to indicate that the cars were to stop, but this double arm gesture was reduced to a one arm one as she shook all the kids hands. It was great.