I am not BU for sure but I need to vent here before I take it out on this other parent.
DS's nursery has very good on street parking. Eight times out of ten I can park outside the building, the rest I have to park in front of adjoining houses and walk a tiny distance to the main gates. Just outside the main gates there is a zebra crossing with speed bumps on either side, all introduced this year clearly to make it safer for pedestrians to cross and slow cars down in the unlikely event a child runs out on the road.
I drop off and pick up the same time as another parent who always parks on the zebra crossing. There are plenty of other spaces everywhere, even right next to the crossing but she parks on the crossing. She does not have a disabled badge or evident disability and neither do her kids. She does leave an older child in the car (7-8yo?) but he can't be seen from the nursery as soon as you go through the gates so he is no more visible in this parking spot than he would be in the one next to it.
She also leaves the nursery gates open despite the huge sign reminding people not to.
I want to throttle her. She annoys me at every drop off and pick up. Pedestrians have to walk round her car to use the zebra crossing and if a child run out into the road her car would obscure him for that little bit longer which might make all the difference in case of an accident.
P.s. I live in France where attitudes to traffic laws are more relaxed but this takes the biscuit even for here. I have considered complaining about her to the nursery but I know they will look at me like I am an alien.
AIBU?
Parking at nursery giving me the rage
Booboostwo · 05/11/2015 19:40
There was a blue-badge-space hog at my DC's pre-school. The staff said something, and it stopped. I'm sure yours will speak to your PITA. The nursery would get the blame for any escapees, so they are the ones who will be keenest to enforce this!
Get your local traffic wardens on to the antisocial parking, as the enforcement will have a keener bite than telling off by any nursery or private individual. As for the wardens, I'm sure they'd love the fine! Win-win. 
There is something about nursery parents and parking, they seem to think laws dont apply to them. When my dc were little the nursery were always having to send out letters about being considerate about parking and the police were bought in.
Where i live now they have just converted an old building into a day nursery at the front of the estate. The entrance to the estate is a narrow road which has some temporary parking places. However it is not unusual to find a car parked in the middle of the road blocking it so we cant go into the estate.
There is not enough parking for the staff so they park in our road and often use the flats parking which is allocated and one lovely girl spends her lunch time emptying her cars rubbish and just leaves it in the road/parking space 
There's always one person who thinks they are too busy and important to follow the rules.
DS1's old nursery has a small carpark with its entrance on the main road. There's space for 5 cars if those 5 cars are driven by people who can actually drive, and not by people who need to park diagonally across 3 spaces, or people who haven't figured out that reversing into the space means you can get out without causing carnage and finishing up trying to reverse across both lanes of a busy A road.
I'd say 90% of the parents managed this fine. There were a few who just didn't seem to be able to manoeuvre without getting in a massive mess. Then there was the one mum who had clearly decided that her needs outweighed those of everyone else, and it was therefore entirely acceptable to abandon her massive car wherever the fancy took her, even if that meant that she blocked everyone else into the carpark and caused a tailback on the main road in the process. No amount of begging by the nursery stopped it. I eventually lost it with her when she was about to make me late for work for about the tenth time. She seemed genuinely confused that I objected to this, but she did move her car by the time I'd finished with her 
The really annoying thing was that there was a big carpark right next door, but she clearly didn't think she should have to walk the extra 10 feet. I started parking next door even if there was space in the nursery carpark. I couldn't be bothered with all the messing about.
The same parent is now the one who parks on the zigzag lines outside the school of course...
She left a lid of a tub of taramousalata by her car, it ended up under her windscreen wiper she has improved ! If she starts again will report her.
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