Being laughed at on the School Run

Tbh you sound like although relaxed you are well put together.
If they are wearing the top knot messy bun, trackies and obviously I'll mannered..are they chavvy? If they are there is nothing you can do, they get a rush from thinking they're unsettling you. You'll just have to pretend not to notice until someone else gives them the attention they need and they move on.

Oh gosh, they sound like people I know that I can't avoid - unfortunately.
They always have an in joke about someone else - mostly other women. This is demonstrated in over the top public displays.
If you don't get it or join in then you're up tight and miserable. If you challenge them you're aggressive and judgmental.
Unfortunately ignoring the silly behaviour is the only way I've found to deal with it.

Pair of bullying bastards.

"What have I missed ?" if they start laughing.
"Do I have a dirty face ?" if they are staring at you.
Deal with them in a factual way.
Treat them as you would a child, quietly authoritative but happy to hear their childish jokes.
Do you have a friend you could walk with ?
They are ridiculous, you know that :-)

OP ..Standard school etiquette is missing here my love! Wear headphones,sunglasses, be engroced scrolling on your phone at all times and this will cover any type of expected meanness, hijacking of PTA, unwanted chat,and the asking of favours! Drop your little one in and tool up with the above and you will sail through the primary years!

I agree with the poster who said they are stuck in a teenage bullying stage where they must have once felt powerful! Very sad. I can only imagine what their children's behaviour will be like.

Has your child witnessed their behaviour towards you?

Absolutely this.

These are women who peaked in life at age 15.

They were considered cool at school because their parents were permissive and let them do and wear whatever they wanted and didn't teach them the importance of hard work or kindness or respect.

Now they're adults who have never really progressed beyond where they were as teenagers, and the kind of kids they used to bully at school have largely grown up to become much more successful adults.

They're just doing what they've always done because they know nothing else.

Find out more about them ? Work , partners , hobbies anything and use it against them ? There is a week link and it’s normally easy to find in people that behave that way. Find it , use it and get your revenge . Normally idiots like that have lots of people who can’t stand them so I’m sure luta if people are waiting to laugh about them .

Next time the laughing thing happens enact a Paddington bear hard stare and ‘surely you don’t mean to be so rude’

How strange. They do sound like silly school girls themselves. I’d be tempted to say something like ‘are you alright? You’re behaving very oddly, do you need help?’ or just look at them with perplexed sympathy.
It’s not pleasant but I couldn’t get worked up about such ridiculous behaviour from two cretinous women.

I would ask them if they are okay if there is a next time, OP. Really weird behaviour.

I second wearing earphones and if weather permits sunglasses, and just ignore the two cretins.

They want a reaction. For some reason they have singled you out - it doesn't really matter what the reason is, it could be something as stupid as your shoes. They like to giggle together about 'that weird woman' and they are DESPERATE for you to react or do something to give them even more fuel for their giggling and pointing you out.

So the absolute best thing you can do is absolutely nothing. They want to get inside your head and if they knew you were going home and worrying about what they might think and say about you, they would be ecstatic. So as someone else said, earphones in, pretend you are so absorbed in your listening that you can't even see them and think that anything they are doing is totally unrelated to your presence.

It will drive them crazy and they will soon find someone else to pick on.

Next time you see them just start singing as loud as you can ‘who let the dogs out’. Rinse and repeat every time!

Agree with posters advising you to ignore/stick ear buds in. You don’t know for absolute certain that any of it’s aimed at you so responding to it would be weird. I always find total indifference is the best way to deal with people trying to get attention or be tediously wacky.

You only redden 1 lip?

This is so toxic. Yes of course they must be ugly, as that's the worst thing a woman can be.

OP - they sound like dicks, completely ignore them.

This. If they had started singing the locomotion at me, I might have joined in with them.

This is most likely.

Nothing the op said indicates that their giggling and laughing was aimed at her.

You are not Australian are you? I am and after 19 years in the UK can tell you I have had my fill of people taking the piss out of my accent or quoting Crocodile Dundee at me. 'That's not a file... THAT's a file' etc. Wasn't funny the first time.

But otherwise they sound a bit stupid and mean. And I agree with pp that some women never seem to grow out of the mean teen stage.

Put ear buds in and ignore them. School mums can be so weird sometimes. I had one who would pull a face and grimace at me when I’d just be saying a friendly good morning in passing. It did make me question myself and wonder what on earth I could have done to illicit such disdain (nothing). I guess I’ll never know even though I still see her around our town (ten odd years later) but I just ignore (still feel uncomfortable walking past her though).

What a pair of losers. Stick some headphones in and go about your day. It's presumably going to be way more rewarding than theirs if they need this childish shit for entertainment.

I used to just give her my biggest smile and pointedly say good morning to her. It confused the hell out of her. @IzzyHandsIsMySpiritAnimal

Love this, have done it myself and it's the confusion that's so brilliant!

If you don't want to ignore, then I find approaching people like them and asking with a serious face "Is there a problem?" can shut stuff like that down