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Just been to drop my daughter off at school, briefly stopped on the zigzags outside school while she got out. As I pull away a motorbike cop pulls me over and gives me a ticking off for stopping on zigzags (didn't get out of car and I'd stopped long enough for daughter to get out), tbf he was quite reasonable and it was only 20 seconds or so. I did notice he was looking at me a little strangely though.
When I got home I realised why. Yesterday evening I was clowning around with my kids and my daughter had got a marker and written 'FOOL' on my forehead in large blue letters.
I hadn't yet washed it off....
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briefly stopped on the zigzags outside school
*tuts*
*giggles*
*then tuts again*
Do you drive a Z5?
Should have given you a ticket there and then !! end of!! Boils my pi@@ when lazy parents pull up on zigzags shove their kids out of a passenger door and drive off . Those zigzags are needed twice a day and no more , Im not going to even waste time explaining why they are there !! on second thoughts dont fine you just let you use the money to get the marker pen permanently tattooed!!!
[i]Do you drive a Z5?[/i]
It'll be a Chelsea Tractor of some sort. If you drive one of those you can pull up/park wherever you want.
Surely this damages your self proclaimed 'World's best Dad" status? Given that you tell us frequently about how great you are for not having a job and looking after your kids it also seems that this role is so time consuming that you aren't able to walk your kids to school or find a safe place to park. Four letter word is fine but the letters are all wrong.
[i]it also seems that this role is so time consuming that you aren't able to walk your kids to school or find a safe place to park[/i] or look in the mirror before leaving the house...
So between clowning around with them last night, and taking them to school this morning at no point have you had a wash?
This was only ever going to go one way....
Do you drive a Z5?
BMW Z5
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Oh yeah! Obviously meant a W5 ^^ nice motor that though
Well that would just be shit for the school run, but who would GAS if you had one of them?!
I'd call them more hexagons than zigzags though
You probably mean x5. The w5 for dyslexic's.
Ah come on now, he had his reprimand from the policeman earlier on, let's just enjoy the thought of him having fool written on his head while he received it.
Looking forward to seeing loddrik's guest appearance on "Cops With Cameras" soon 😀
Oh yeah! Obviously meant a W5
The Motorola W5 ? 😉
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[i]You probably mean x5. The w5 for dyslexic's.[/i]
Y5?
Did you have your hazard lights on?
You're allowed to park on zig zags, double yellows, bus stops etc. as long as you've got your hazards on. Everyone knows that.
Just out of interest, where did the motorbike cop park?
I am guessing loddrik has dished it on some people, lets hope he is one of those people who can take it as well
Y5 ?
The Trek Y5 ?
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Dammit! No thats not it.. er... V5 ?
Do you drive a V5 Loddrick?
I think cops should be allowed to shoot on site parents who park on zig zags. Sadly my suggestion has not been taken up by ACPO (yet)...
Dammit! No thats not it.. er... V5 ?
Do you drive a V5 Loddrick?
The Sachs V5 ?
Bit small for a school run I would have thought.
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Surely thats it!
The A5?? Watling Street, Watling Street the old Roman Road?? There are zigzags on Watling Street? What? All along the A5?
Thats a lot of paint.
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W5? Maybe these will help you see the zig zags and the signs that say "No Stopping"! 🙂
Gah! It's a good job I am not normally at home during the day, as the way people park near the school on my road really boils my widdle.
There's a sharp left corner (90 deg) then a sharp right corner (90 deg) on the approach to the school. The school is immediately round the right hand corner. Our house in on a short straight bit between the two bends.
The parents park on the approach to the left hander, all the way round the corner itself (so you have to negotiate it on the wrong side of the road) and on the straight bit before the right hander. They don't park on the right hand bend on the same side of the road because of the zig zags (phew!), but instead just park on the opposite side of the road 🙄 .
I came home from work one day following a coach down the road with all the little darlings on it coming back from a school trip. They had parked so badly that the only way the coach could get to the school was on the wrong side of the road while half on the opposite pavement. Not safe at all.
I've had parent's getting impatient with me, as I've slowed to park on my driveway.
A colleague of mine left his car outside my house once as I was giving him a lift. When we got back to my house (earlier than normal), the school run was in full swing and they had all still parked in their usual spots even though his car was on the opposite side of the road and parking in their usual spots made the road almost impassable to anything larger than a Golf. Even though his car had been there since about 7am, he got loads of dirty looks from the parent's presumably due to his 'irresponsible' parking.
It's a long road and there's plenty of parking further away, but they seem to have to park as close as possible to the school.
Apparently it has been raised plenty of times in the past by the school but no one pays any attention. Last time it was mentioned, one of the parent's threatened to punch the teacher delivering the mesasge, so I think the school have given up.
raised plenty of times in the past by the school
I know this is steering the thread away from the OP, but isn't this the king of issue the local coucil should be tacking with a concerted effort at traffic warden ticketing? Have you spoken to them about it?threatened to punch the teacher delivering the mesasge
Once a term the school newsletter reminds parents about parking properly, once a year our local bobby - PC Crookes, and I'm not making it up! - has a friendly word with the morons, and then normal chaos resumes
People seem to mostly use hazard warning lights to park on double yellows so they can run into Greggs round here. Bugs me on several levels.
[i]I know this is steering the thread away from the OP[/i]
Yes. Down with that sort of thing.
I know this is steering the thread away from the OP
MoreCash does that sort of thing - but then again he does work for the council
You probably mean x5. The w5 for dyslexic's.
Or people who don't know how to use an apostrophe?
🙄
[quote=stumpy01 ]It's a long road and there's plenty of parking further away, but they seem to have to park as close as possible to the school.
You do realise that kids nowadays are incapable of walking? Think about that next time you get upset.
I know this is steering the thread away from the OPYes. Down with that sort of thing.
Indeed. Well said 🙂
Well done to the OP for landing this on the zigzags
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[i]Or people who don't know how to use an apostrophe?[/i]
Yeah! that's a man who needs FOOL tattooed on his head! FOOL!
That X5, is it a bomber?
It's a going really fast and not much else-er
I think you'll find lodders drives a pimped C5
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Or people who don't know how to use an apostrophe?Yeah! that's a man who needs FOOL tattooed on his head! FOOL!
You got it right second time round, though - well done you(!) 😉
Some people who live near our local school have had parents park on their driveways. Not across the end, actually on, behind the owner's car. I can't begin to understand the universe-sized sense of entitlement that would lead someone to think that that was OK.
parking on zig zags is for bell ends.
People seem to mostly use hazard warning lights to park on double yellows so they can run into Greggs round here.
I think you'll find people going into Greggs don't run anywhere...
They do if they're about to shut 🙂
Ooooh, I found a pic on my Flickr account.
This was quite a 'good' day. EDIT - it was early evening & I think they were waiting to pick up from a school trip.
The school can be seen to the right of the picture on the other side of the road.
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Someone above suggested contacting the council - that's not actually a bad idea, but I haven't done yet.
I debated making some small leaflets referencing the highway code where it says about where and where not to park to leave under their wipers. But, I don't wanna get dog poo put through my letterbox.
But I'll only be here for a minute FFS, chill out dude!I can't begin to understand the universe-sized sense of entitlement that would lead someone to think that that was OK.
MiL went looking at houses at wkend, a house with it's own access rd off a housing estate. Her bloke said "I don't like the look of this" as they drove in, lovely house apparently but sure enough on the way out not 1 but 2 cars were parked blocking the access rd, cue door knocking and "is one of these your car?" and yes the owners were both arsey about having to move their illegally parked cars.
Can I just refute the unfounded allegation on page 1 that I work for the council.
On the rare occasions that I do any work, I work for the government.
I once went over 70mph in the outside lane of the motorway "hides".
On the rare occasions that I do any work, I work for the government.
My apologies, I take it back
Some people who live near our local school have had parents park on their driveways. Not across the end, actually on, behind the owner's car.
Easily sorted:
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parking on zig zags is for bell ends.
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Easily sorted:
Heh 🙂 Doesn't help much with the more immediate issue of the homeowner getting their own car off the drive, mind 😉
People seem to mostly use hazard warning lights to park on double yellows so they can run into Greggs round here.
Haven't you heard. The highway code now stipulates that you can do what the bloody hell you like so long as you have your hazards on.
Stopping just after a blind bend to answer your phone?
Make sure you've got your hazards on and you'll be fine.
The local school has the yellow zigzags painted around the main office entrance not the actual entrance for the school, allowing parents able to run their children down with complete entitlement. 😆
We have some parents, who despite living in a place here the school is 10 mins walk maximum for anyone, have to drop little Tarquin or Esmerelda off by hulking 4x4, not in the pre-arranged and paid for, empty Indian restaurant car park, which is 50m walk from school, oh no, we have to drive into the narrow, one way lane that school is on, stop at the narrow bit at the gate, blocking any other child's view back down the road and forcing any overtaking car to partly use the pavement, and walk their little dahlings the five metres across the playground, to the unrepresentative door.
The head has a word, they stop doing it for a week, and then return to it the first wet day. The police come and threaten tickets, they text each other in warning, and return the next day. The parent council puts up a sign, and everyone agrees parking is an issue, but still the same nodding and agreeing crowd drive to pick up the kids, refusing to walk any further than their fat, expanding and waddling arses can carry them.
[i] I think you'll find people going into Greggs don't run anywhere...[/i]
I bet they are wearing trainers though, probably white JD Sports specials.
footflaps - Member
I think cops should be allowed to shoot on site parents who park on zig zags. Sadly my suggestion has not been taken up by ACPO
Which site is this? I may want to watch.
[quote=stumpy01 ]I debated making some small leaflets referencing the highway code where it says about where and where not to park to leave under their wipers. But, I don't wanna get dog poo put through my letterbox.
You've got a neighbour you don't like? Just put their name and address on the leaflet.