The school our kids go to isn't the best for parking (middle of a small village on the edge of town with a narrow road used by commuters). The vast majority (like myself) park sensibly and make the 5 minute walk into school.
So, this morning I came across some stupid bloody woman that had parked her expensive Merc:
1 - 3/4 on the pavement
2 - on the zigzags for a zebra crossing
3 - so close to the car (parked legally) in front of her it had blocked them in
She then drove off and performed a U turn in the head of a junction whilst holding a cup of Costa coffee in one hand.
FFS - are some people utterly devoid of any idea that perhaps they need to think a bit more about what they are doing?
I remember the days when kids walked to school...
FFS - are some people utterly devoid of any idea that perhaps they need to think a bit more about what they are doing?
did you actually say anything at the time?
The moment school run is banned, is the moment when rush hour traffic dissapears.
Chateau de Chassilier?
I remember the days when kids walked to school...
That doesn't sound creepy at all. 😮
The moment school run is banned, is the moment when rush hour traffic dissapears.
Because no-one drives to work?
I remember the days when kids walked to school...
<thinks hard> yep, I can still just about remember this morning.
Sorry, I was in a rush. Make matters worse the coffee was cold FFS!!
That doesn't sound creepy at all.
When [i]I[/i] was a kid, you assclown. (-:
Ooh moderator abuses someone 😯 😉
He started it, he [s]invaded Poland[/s] insinuated I was a nonce!
Ransos, see how traffic is when school holidays are on. You will barely see any, and I speak from ex-London bus drivers view.
how traffic is when school holidays are on.
thats cuz people take work holidays when the kids are off. 💡
to paraphrase njee from the "complaining thread"
People are tossers.
In so many different ways.
I saw a woman in a large Range Rover outside a school decide she was bored with waiting for the traffic to clear and let her turn right into the carpark, and let the precious darlings out in the middle of the road, with traffic passing on either side. Tempting as it was, I stopped to block traffic and protect them getting out of the car, as did the car coming the other way.
I blame GPs oversubscribing valium to bored middle class housewives, there is no way a sober and sane person would have done that.
Ransos, see how traffic is when school holidays are on. You will barely see any, and I speak from ex-London bus drivers view.
Explain why it's busy at 5.30pm, 2 hours after school has finished.
did you actually say anything at the time?
I would have done had I got close enough before she got in the car and drove off, but from what I could see, the person in the car that had been blocked in by her was having words.
The school newsletter regularly (about three times a term) asks people to park considerately I just don't comprehend why some people assume it means 'everyone apart from me 'coz I's special'.
BTW, I'd walk my kids to school if:
1 - I didn't need to go straight to work after, and;
2 - It wasn't a 1.6 mile (40 minute) walk from our house that includes parts without pavements.
scruff - Member...how traffic is when school holidays are on.
thats cuz people take work holidays when the kids are off
Work traffic doesn't all stop within 50ft of each other, open doors wildly, while taking in nothing other than the screams of their offspring
The school my kids go to is on a narrow residential street, double parked all the way along. There seems to be a hardcore of parents (who all seem to own a certain type of German automobile) who need to drop their kids off right outside the gate. Maybe the poor dears have lost the use of their legs. Or they fear for the safety from the hoards of child abductors wandering around South Manchester of a morning
But the mexican stand offs that occur on the road means that it must take them 5 times as long to drop their kids off than if they just parked up a few streets away and just strolled round. Idiots!
Ohh and yesterday I saw a guy at the back of a queue of cars quite literally drive up the inside of the cars almost entirely on the pavement and proceed to park.
But I know him a little from dads' nights out and already knew he was a cock of the highest order.
And he drives an Audi... So that is affirming the German car stereotype.
School along road from us. Very middle class neighbourhood. Car park used regularly for drop-offs despite the dangers. There's a woman about 180 yes from school that habitually drops little darling off, having driven down the hill (180 yes FFS) in Cayenne, performs a U-turn and zooms back up the road to house. She runs a nursery. Oh the ironing..
Eventually one of the kids gets knocked down outside the school as happened round here last week. Perhaps (I don't hold out much hope) the selfish will come to their senses.
Monitored CCTV covering the yellow zig zags would knock it on the head. Several 3 points and £60 invoices and word would get out.
[i]1 - I didn't need to go straight to work after, and;
2 - It wasn't a 1.6 mile (40 minute) walk from our house that includes parts without pavements.[/i]
I had to drop my kid off this morning. It's about the same from mine to his school. I dropped him about a mile from the school and he rode his scooter the rest of the way. Means I don't have to battle with the "outside the gates" lot and he gets a workout 🙂
Not saying it'd work for everyone, I was amazed that he would do that myself!
Eventually one of the kids gets knocked down outside the school as happened round here last week.
A girl at my school was knocked down running out between cars parked on the zig zags. That was the mid '80s...
@DezB As I say, our walk has parts without pavements so I won't be doing anything like that until they are older (they are only 5) and are confident with riding on a road. And its a pretty steep hill all the way so I doubt they would even be able to get back up by themselves.
My 4yr old son cycles to and from school. Well cycles to school but when its my turn to pick him up I'm idle and drive 😈
Indeed, I admit it's not practical for everyone, was just quite chuffed that my kid chose the way which took a bit more effort.
Cougar, I've already told you you're not allowed to even call yourself sh1t. Get a grip.
My 4yr old son cycles to and from school.
On roads or pavements?
Step 1) avoid cycling past schools on route to work - check
Step 2) avoid having children that need dropping off at school - check
And relax.
avoid having children that need dropping off at school
What sort of child doesn't need taking to school at some point?
We sometimes have the local beat bobby offering advice to inconsiderate drivers around the school. I'm not aware that he ever follows up tbe week after and actually issues any tickets though, which I suspect would be more effective than a chat from PC Crookes (oh, the irony!)
On roads or pavements?
Depends if he is aiming for a KOM
😀
Does anyone else encounter the situation where the parents drive the kids to the school bus stop and then wait in their cars along the pavement until the bus comes then the kids get out of the cars and onto the bus?
@johndoh - indeed, not a new problem we had the same issue 15 years ago. With social media it's quite easy now to deter this with the name and shame approach. Take a phone photo (ideally being able to tag the parent in question or just ask do you know who this is ?) and post it on facebook. I doubt you can get the school to do it on their page but you could create a "friends of XYZ school" page and do it there.
Even after requesting numerous times that parents parked outside the school my kids Infants they had to erect an automated barrier to prevent it. There was one dad so incensed by this he used to drive his mahoosive Audi Q8 up to the gate and then had to do a 5 point turn in order to get back out. This manoeuvre included driving up onto the path on both sides of the road where all the other parents are walking their kids in. Its hard not to swear in front of all the little ears when having words with such a selfish **** * *** * ***** T!!
Does anyone else encounter the situation where the parents drive the kids to the school bus stop and then wait in their cars along the pavement until the bus comes then the kids get out of the cars and onto the bus?
This, Local public school sends a bus round the villages que Range Rovers/Q8's Galore at the end of our road every day. Tricky junction too.
Back in my day we had to stand in an icy puddle whilst waiting for the slops cart to drag us to the work house. That'd learn 'em.
At the local school to is it absolute carnage with parents picking up their fat brats. It is quickly gridlocked and when I have gone along the road forgetting what time it is it can take 20 minutes to cover 250m. They get the kids in the car and then pull straight into any gap in the traffic regardless of it had been left so the opposing traffic can move so that we may all make some progress so gridlock continues.
I wish they would just ban parking all around the school and make the parents and kids walk.
johndoh - MemberWhat sort of child doesn't need taking to school at some point?
The sort that someone DIDN'T have.... 😉
Mind - the issue with all this is the people who live nearby sometimes...
School here - chaos EVERY morning.
So school for years tell parents NOT to come into the school carpark... never works.
They tell parents NOT to drive - never happens.
SO - council make road a one way to prevent the gridlock from residents parked cars clashing with school run traffic.... (by the way - this is a road that EVERY house has a driveway and I mean EVERY house)...
It lasted 2 months before the RESIDENTS complained!!!!!!
It's not like they have to drive miles - the road is only 300mts long with multiple parallel roads they can use.
What sort of child doesn't need taking to school at some point?
Home schooled?
There are 2 other schools near to my son's school, so there's traffic chaos every morning. What gets me is the way some parents seem to think that the rules of the road don't apply if you're doing the school run: illegal parking, not giving way, no indicators, reversing without looking to see what's behind.
we had to stand in an icy puddle whilst waiting for the slops cart to drag us to the work house
Icy puddle! We used to dream of standing in an icy puddle
