I live on what is, normally, a reasonably quiet road with a (fantastic, got to be said) school at the end of it. It bloody well winds me up that between the hours of 8.30 and 9.30am and 3.15 and 4.00pm I can't get out of my drive without almost mowing down a child or hitting oncoming traffic and at the worst times the traffic is backed up from one end of the road to the other (it's a mile long!!). The lollypop lady stops the traffic for a single parent and child and doesn't wait for a bit of a queue to build up and on friday waited in the middle of the road for someone who hadn't even got to the gates yet despite nobody else waiting to cross. Common sense seems to go out of the window for those that have decided to drive to the school and how a day goes by without an accident I will never know. I know that I will be one of these parents at the school gates in a couple of years but I will walk to the gates (people 3 doors up from me drive......why?!) and cross the road outside my house to avoid the lollypop lady. These times mon-fri are absolute no-go times and I'm finding myself feeling frustrated because it almost dictates when I do things throughout the day. I have also seen people arrive at 2.30pm to pick their children up, just so they get a space near the school (why not just leave later but walk?)
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AIBU for getting totally pissed off when it's school run time?
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questforanswers · 10/07/2011 15:26
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