Why did Meadow cross the road?

There appears to be some frustration with the truncated manner in which The Sopranos ended a couple of days ago (link goes to final scene off YouTube).

I was going to write something philosophical along the lines of "You don't get to cross the road, capisce?" in the sense that, from the very beginning, The Sopranos has maintained a high standard of "life, take it or leave it" naturality (even within the unnatural context of organized crime etc) and that the most honest way to end the show was, in a sense, in between heartbeats.... would Meadow make it across the street? She has always been shown to be awkward at a practical level -- to the end, even, making a botched attempt to park her car... would she make it hurriedly across a road pitched about by furious SUVs in the dark of the night..... (*)

(*) I found it surprising that other commenters online chose to focus on the "larger" issues of the show; Would Tony go to jail? Would Tony be offed? Some, obsessed with this last possibility, went as far as to notice the presence and body language of the other patrons in the diner shown in the last few seconds of the episode.... I got NONE of that the first time around (I don't often do social feedback loops so the pre-broadcast hype was not part of my appreciation to that degree). And yet the massively perceived metaphor was the same....

.... then my husband, in a rare fit of acoustic acumen, pointed out that you can hear the ding of the diner's door bell just before Tony looks up for the show's finals shot; one is forced to imagine that it must be her coming in through the door that he has looked up to see.

I didn't need the ding, David.

(although the onion-rings-as-sacrificial-hosts were a nice touch)

-J