I did this very sad thing

One of our neighbors drives their kids to school every day, ok not a real problem but it's in the same road.
So I decided to measure it, less than 200 yards!
Then come hometime she will park up early to get a space right outside the gates.
I can't believe I measured it.
I really am going all Victor Meldrew.

that's worse than what she's doing

grab a red flag and lead her down the road. Maybe she'll get the hint?

Block her in and see what panic it causes!

Needless to say they're all obese and their eldest child at school smokes in the house and even appears to have what looks like a real tatoo.
Guess what she does for a living..

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sofatester
I fear this might happen

Guess what she does for a living..

Fitness instructor…….?

Child minder.

😆 @ oldgit

Escort?

LOLling at that photo – reckon it's his bike ??

Oh, and the level of sadness depends on means used to measure the route:
Car/bike as you went past anyway – nul points
car/bike on a special detour – 1
Computery thing like mapmyride – 2
Walking with a wheely measurer thingy – 3
Walking with YOUR wheely measurer thingy 😯 – 5
Pacing it out (as you know your stride) – 5
Other (please specify) – ??

Guess what she does for a living..

Car salesperson
Macdonalds supervisor
Sky TV tester
Catalogue rep
Call centre sales
Kitten torturer
I don't know…tell me tell me tell me…

Actually, one of my neighbours drives a huge black sporty sedan thing, like a sort of flash Vauxhall. I think it's a Lexus. Tinted windows, wheels with the brakes visible through the fat shiny metal bits, multiple exhaust pipes: you know the sort of thing. One of my favourite amusements of an early evening is watching him driving his beloved toy around and around looking for a parking space. He gets more and more tense; his braking and acceleration gets sharper and sharper.

He's actually quite a nice guy, when he's not moaning about parking. I don't like to point out to him that I keep my vehicle in my garden and don't take up any space. The fuel he must waste, though, just going round in circles.

oldgit – Member

One of our neighbors drives their kids to school every day, ok not a real problem but it's in the same road.
So I decided to measure it, less than 200 yards!
Then come hometime she will park up early to get a space right outside the gates.
I can't believe I measured it.
I really am going all Victor Meldrew.

This sounds very much like the sort of thing that happens in America! Are you in the US?

"neighbors" is American! 😀

You're right, it is very sad that you measured it. Perhaps she just hasn't thought about it? Perhaps she's on a tight schedule and has to get away right after she's dropped the kids off? Is it really worth worrying about at all?

Guess what she does for a living..

nothing?

Perhaps she is trying to avoid the strange man crawling along the pavement with a ruler?

One of our neighbors drives their kids to school every day … less than 200 yards!

Dear god, that's utterly ridiculous.

That Whale piccy is very funny.
My nephew ( aged 6 ) walks to and from school everyday, 2 miles there, 2 miles home.
Guess what he's not obese, not even remotely fat.
His school have a walk to school day every week. The children that don't join in, get to shame their parents.

How did you measure the distance oldgit?

It beats the overweight parent who drives around 300 mtrs (I have never measured it!) in her MPV to drop off 1 child, then drives home again!

Guess what she does for a living.

Green transport advisor?

'How did you measure the distance oldgit?'

Drove by, not ****ing walking that far am I.

Actually I've always been narked by the ammount of stay at home parents that drive their kids less than a mile. It's not just the health issue it's safety one as well what with all the cars about.
I'm proud to say mine have always walked or cycled.

One of our neighbours does the same thing – about 200-300 yards from school and I saw her dropping the kids off by car. I told my wife about it and she says 'Oh yeh, she has a really tight schedule and does it to just get into work on time.' Fairy nuff I guess.

I can feel the warmth of your collective smugness from here.

The age bit makes it worst they must be about 10 or 12.

I was in an american Campsite in the Rockies once – pretty remote, but set up for cars, rvs etc.

Fatty along the way DROVE 50 yards to the toilet block. I was in the middle of a solo ride across the Rockies FFS!

This is smugtastic 😆

Drove by, not ****ing walking that far am I.

PMSL! Classic!
😀

What these morons don't get is that all the trafic they say makes walking to school unsafe is parents driving kids to school.

Was parked up outside a house on a junction once when a woman came out of the house, got in her car and drove off. 2 minutes later she was back with a Spar carrier bag and two slush puppies. We could see Spar from where we were sat about 150m away. Metres, not miles that is.

FFS!

I ban them all!

A child that walks to school is more likely to carry on with an activity after leaving, than one who was ferried about in a car and went to a variety of activities.

Also oldgit, if they walk they get a sense of danger from the road. Learning how to cross properly and looking out for cycles too ( hopefully).

I'm allowed to be smug. Being a walk leader, one of my (voluntary jobs) is to try and persuade parents to walk their little darlings to and from school.

200yds? Latest daily mail figures point out that 200ft of the uk contains THREE blood thirsty perverted peadophiles, FIVE Islamists with suicide jackets and SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR BILLION life threatening pathogens.

Given these indisputable FACTS i'd say that Gordon Brown should be personally escorting her kids in an hermetically sealed armoured personnel carrier.

nowt to do with kids but my dad used to ( and we are talking 35/40 years ago ) get the car out of the garage to drive to the pub which was a huge estimated 400 yards walk when it was certainly quicker to walk by the time he had opened and shut the garage.
Then drive home pissed and put the car back in the garage.

'Oh yeh, she has a really tight schedule and does it to just get into work on time.' Fairy nuff I guess

not really, she should get up earlier

Bet she leaves the engine running while waiting too.

not really, she should get up earlier

TBH only a weirdo would walk 200yrds down the road, drop off the kids, walk back 200yrds, get the car, then drive back the same way again…

A normal person would drive, park, SWITCH OFF the engine, drop off the kids, then continue on his/her way in the same direction.

Depends how old kids are…

This reminds me of when I went to Disney in Florida a few years ago. The HUGE Americans would drive to the park, wait for a train kind of thing to ferry them from the carpark to the park gates, then they would waddle the 20yds through the gates and get on one of the mobility scooters. Thus they could drive round all day only standing up to sit down again on a ride or a restaurant chair.
And they wonder why they look like an inflatable..