I drive a lot, I drive over 10,000 miles a year and rarely have any problems but the school run has got me so angry.
We live in a village, my dd's go to a small school, loads of parents feel the need to drive to school even though they live less then 2 minutes walk away, I live quite far ( edge of village ), my dd's have slight mobility issues meaning we can't walk. I have to get to school early to park ( as the people that live 2 minutes away have left half an hour early to park outside the school gates, it's raining and they don't want little billy to get cold ). At the end of the road there is no pavement but there is a footpath that passes through the church so people don't have to walk on the road.
Anyway, yesterday someone pulled out of a junction ( one of the mums that really could walk to school ) and almost drove into my car, luckily I was going slow and managed to beep my horn as she was about to hit me. She then got shitty with me in the playground as apparently 'I was not there when she pulled out', I was travelling along a straight bit of road doing 20mph when she pulled out, she looked right at me before she pulled out. This really shook me up and scared the dc's.
Today it is raining so even more people driving in, I get there early but still have to park half a mile away, it takes me 10 minutes to get back out, I get to the end of the road where there's traffic trying to come both ways and there's a parent walking her children along the road and not using the footpath, there's not really enough room for 2 car to pass but I'm being pushed along by the traffic and being waved through, I have to squeeze past the parent and her child ( who is waving his hands around and dancing in the road ), the mother starts shouting at me as I'm getting quite close to said child, I can't really stop as another car is trying to squeeze through the other way, the child is totally oblivious and carts on. I left him plenty of room to keep walking sensibly along the road but WTF don't people use the footpath, even the school keeps sending out reminders not to walk along the road and to use the path. Now I look like a bad driver because I almost hit her child ( the child is 10 years old and should be able to walk sensibly anyway).
I'm now petrified to do the school run, my car was hit a few months ago whilst sat outside the school, I have had many near misses whilst my car has been stationary. There's also those parents who think they can get up there late and park where the hell they like, this includes parking in the bus stop, in front of people's drive ways, on verges or blocking off the whole road stopping bigger things ( including ambulances) getting through.
I'm now so scared to go up there that I will have to park half a mile away and walk,. I know it's not the end of the world, my dd will find walking a struggle but she will cope.
Am IBU to be so fed up with it? Are all school runs this bad?
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To be totally petrified of driving the school run?
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marne2 · 08/01/2015 09:10
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