Page 7 | Don't argue with the traffic warden on your school run

Bag4Lyfey · 2024-10-25T07:52:11+00:00

It made me laugh yesterday as 3 of the Mums driving stupidly big cars received parking tickets outside the school dates. They work on the safety lines that are outside schools and they only live a 7 minute walk from school and also don't work (I know of them). They came out and tried to argue their way out of the tickets saying "what? A parking ticket for dropping my kid off at school?" I think it serves them right. I've parked on a single yellow near the school in a mega rush so I'm no angel but if you do that you accept that there is a chance you will get a ticket and can't complain if you get one can you!!? Just made me laugh it was the 4x4 cars from the professional yummy mummies who all got them and then wanted to argue, talk about entitlement! Plus if you have a big car then surely a parking ticket is affordable?! That's part of the illusion of wealth is that you don't care! Needless to say the areas are clear today so they've learned their lesson, for now at least! X

Gilead · 25/10/2024 13:17

sharpclawedkitten · 25/10/2024 11:48

Most SUV drivers do not have disabilities and don't have to fit their wheelchairs in. Anyway there are plenty of cars that fit wheelchairs in or have good seating, and aren't massive tanks.

They are driving them because they like to be seen in expensive cars and also think they give them more protection, so they can bully others on the roads.

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Getting a Motability car isn’t just about getting the wheelchair in, there are quite a number of other factors that need to be taken into consideration, before the car I have now I had a Fiesta, unfortunately it got to the point where I could no longer get in and out.
I also live in a rural area that sees frequent and heavy snowfall in winter. The point is, you’re making judgements about people who have these cars without knowing the circumstances.

Having said that, I have had a row with a footballer’s wife when she parked her Range Rover (Victoria Beckham styling) in a blue badge space because she had a baby!
I judged, loudly!

ButterMints · 25/10/2024 12:54

DC school is right next to a council car park and has an agreement to use the car park during school run times with permits issued for free.

We walk to school but have to walk through the car park and it's utter bedlam. The yummy mummy types in SUVs are absolutely the worst. They drive too fast to try and get the spots closest to the entrance (saving themselves a whole 30 second walk), reverse without looking out of spaces (because they're incapable of reversing in) and one parent actually got hit by one the other week.

So even if a solution is offered, such as the use of a massive car park adjacent to the school, you still get the same problems. And it's absolutely the type OP describes!

SophiaJ8 · 25/10/2024 12:51

The ‘yummy mummies’ 🤮 really don’t care what you’re up to. They’re not judging you, they’re just getting on with their lives. And yes, it is coming across as jealousy.

PersephonePotts · 25/10/2024 12:50

Parker231 · 25/10/2024 12:47

Would be better if an area at least half a mile around the school was a no parking zone and people would actually walk to keep it safer coming out of school.

Good grief a half mile exclusion zone! In my kids primary that would encompass about 200 houses. Where should the residents in those houses park?? What about people with mobility issues? Or pregnant women or people with young toddlers and babies? Not everyone can do a 2 mile round trip every day.

purplebeansprouts · 25/10/2024 12:49

Parker231 · 25/10/2024 12:47

Would be better if an area at least half a mile around the school was a no parking zone and people would actually walk to keep it safer coming out of school.

Please no. I live near a couple of schools and get enough people parking badly on our street at end of school time as it is

Parker231 · 25/10/2024 12:47

Would be better if an area at least half a mile around the school was a no parking zone and people would actually walk to keep it safer coming out of school.

Hoppinggreen · 25/10/2024 12:47

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 12:42

I don't care what they think about me, I'm sick for women shouting JEALOUSY! at other women whenever they don't agree with other women. Which is what is happening here with the OP. Grow up.

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But she isn't disagreeing with them. She is judging them despite knowing nothing about them other than they appear to have more money than her and THAT is most likely jealousy.
If they park like arseholes then OP should judge that as its the only thing about them she knows for certain

purplebeansprouts · 25/10/2024 12:47

Completelyjo · 25/10/2024 12:46

But claiming all sahm’s are vacuous, boring, have no life and no interests just because don’t full time isn’t boring and unimaginative.

Even the notion that someone who doesn’t work and therefore has significantly more time to spend on things they enjoy is boring and dull is pretty pathetic.

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It also has nothing to do with poor parking outside a school

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Indeed there's more than one way to live a life

Completelyjo · 25/10/2024 12:46

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 12:33

I'm very happy with my life thanks ☺️

I'm bored of all the full time mummies who make out my children are neglected because I have the audacity to want a career and life for myself.

And I'm very very bored of all the old "all women who disagree with another woman are jealous" trope. It's so unimaginative.

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But claiming all sahm’s are vacuous, boring, have no life and no interests just because don’t full time isn’t boring and unimaginative.

Even the notion that someone who doesn’t work and therefore has significantly more time to spend on things they enjoy is boring and dull is pretty pathetic.

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purplebeansprouts · 25/10/2024 12:44

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 12:42

I don't care what they think about me, I'm sick for women shouting JEALOUSY! at other women whenever they don't agree with other women. Which is what is happening here with the OP. Grow up.

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OK if it's not jealousy what is it? Why the sneering at the women's lifestyle?

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I don't care if you believe me, should I?

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purplebeansprouts · 25/10/2024 12:43

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 11:28

I'm not jealous, I find these women rather empty. They need a hobby. And a career of their own.

Yummy mummy's who's whole personality is being the best mummy ever and lunching with other such women after having manicures and pressing their cashcows (sorry husbands) trousers bore me to to death. I've been to a few mum groups full of yummy mummys and there's not a personal interest in sight, fuck me it's dull! They yammer on a out how they could never leave little Jemima in childcare and their lives are just so full with all the little tea parties and school gate chats! It's all so vacuous. I thought it looked charmed until I tried it, after 4 months I was bored to death and went back to work.

I'll be down the stables with my horses teaching my daughter some actual skills and that there's more to life than cars and hairdos thanks. My hair is long and my riding boots knee high but I really don't see how that's supposed to make me feel fulfilled in life.

She's just jealous is always the go to put down for women but we are allowed to just think someones a twat you know.

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So it's not a lifestyle for you. It's not a lifestyle for me either. But there's no need to be so hostile about people who decide that's what they want to do.

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 12:42

PureBoggin · 25/10/2024 12:38

That's not what this thread is about. But you do seem triggered. Why do you care what they think about you?

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I don't care what they think about me, I'm sick for women shouting JEALOUSY! at other women whenever they don't agree with other women. Which is what is happening here with the OP. Grow up.

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 12:41

purplebeansprouts · 25/10/2024 12:37

Then that is a specific issue you have with sahms and is not in anyway related to their parking. It's weird to drag someone's employment status into a rant about parking dangerously.

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I wasn't talking about the parking, I was replying to all the women who are just picking on the OP for calling these women yummy mummies and the posters all accusing the women agreeing with her of being jealous of these women because she actually thinks they're idiots.

You find horses dull, that's fine, Im certainly not going to reply with Gosh this woman is so jealous!! She obviously just really wants horses but can't afford them! Because that would be stupid. Like all the accusations of jealousy in this thread are stupid.

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PureBoggin · 25/10/2024 12:38

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 12:33

I'm very happy with my life thanks ☺️

I'm bored of all the full time mummies who make out my children are neglected because I have the audacity to want a career and life for myself.

And I'm very very bored of all the old "all women who disagree with another woman are jealous" trope. It's so unimaginative.

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That's not what this thread is about. But you do seem triggered. Why do you care what they think about you?

purplebeansprouts · 25/10/2024 12:37

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 12:33

I'm very happy with my life thanks ☺️

I'm bored of all the full time mummies who make out my children are neglected because I have the audacity to want a career and life for myself.

And I'm very very bored of all the old "all women who disagree with another woman are jealous" trope. It's so unimaginative.

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Then that is a specific issue you have with sahms and is not in anyway related to their parking. It's weird to drag someone's employment status into a rant about parking dangerously.

PureBoggin · 25/10/2024 12:36

BalletCat · 25/10/2024 11:28

I'm not jealous, I find these women rather empty. They need a hobby. And a career of their own.

Yummy mummy's who's whole personality is being the best mummy ever and lunching with other such women after having manicures and pressing their cashcows (sorry husbands) trousers bore me to to death. I've been to a few mum groups full of yummy mummys and there's not a personal interest in sight, fuck me it's dull! They yammer on a out how they could never leave little Jemima in childcare and their lives are just so full with all the little tea parties and school gate chats! It's all so vacuous. I thought it looked charmed until I tried it, after 4 months I was bored to death and went back to work.

I'll be down the stables with my horses teaching my daughter some actual skills and that there's more to life than cars and hairdos thanks. My hair is long and my riding boots knee high but I really don't see how that's supposed to make me feel fulfilled in life.

She's just jealous is always the go to put down for women but we are allowed to just think someones a twat you know.

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You don't know THESE women! Your life works for you, their lives work for them - there's really no problem here.

purplebeansprouts · 25/10/2024 12:35

You sound jealous of their cars and lifestyle when that has nothing to do with it

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I'm very happy with my life thanks ☺️

I'm bored of all the full time mummies who make out my children are neglected because I have the audacity to want a career and life for myself.

And I'm very very bored of all the old "all women who disagree with another woman are jealous" trope. It's so unimaginative.

KnottedTwine · 25/10/2024 12:29

LifeisNOTlikeemmerdalefarm · 25/10/2024 09:28

A school where my children went to face a dual carriageway.
At the rear is a very large field which has now been made into
a carpark. (100 spaces) It takes an extra 2 minutes to walk to the doors where
the children exit.
Yet still parents park on the lines outside the front completely blocking one
of the lanes.

Not uncommon, anyone who lives near a school will have tales of entitled parents who don't give a shit about anything except parking as close as humanly possible to the school gates.