I have woke up early thinking about and playing something over in my head that happened yesterday and now wondering if I just being a bit dramatic and silly or something worth mentioning to school.
DC go to a small village school (think pub, church and school being the bulk of it) and B road in and out.
Due to its size other than residents of village and parents of school there’s not really much activity and things that are not quite right stick out, hence me posting...
Went to pick DC up yesterday, they had been at an after school club so an hour after normal school pick, lovely afternoon but starting to get a little darker and relatively less children coming out. I always have the dog and my DC are KS2 so they know to come and meet me at the front of the school. Walk up to school and there is a van parked not only in front of school, but nose up on the kerb touching school low wall and blocking off pavement (weird in itself as children coming out of school would have to walk round the back and onto the road to get past)
Can see a guy in the front and notice he also has a dog as my dog is going mad. At this point just think he is an inconsiderate parent/carer waiting to pick up kids but note don’t recognise him, van, or inconsiderate parking!!
I’m standing directly beside his passenger door (seeing as I can’t get past) and after about 5 minutes he gets out his side, lifts the lid on van and starts tinkering about in the inside. He looks over and mentions something to my dog about his Pup watching mine, seems friendly enough but I am starting to find the whole thing a bit odd...
Next thing he has his dog out on the lead and (without asking) let’s his dog come up and have a sniff at mine (fucking hate when dog owners do that!!) mine has a bit of a growl and a snap at his and he asks how old mine is just as my DC appear and he walks off with dog on lead.
Get the kids all packed up, lunch boxes in bags, wellies on etc and start to walk back up though the village and he is coming back down again with dog, looks over and smiles. We carry on home.
I think it’s relevant to add that we live somewhere quite famously beautiful with good green dog walks at every turn without having to pick a narrow, steep village road to walk up 200m’s and back down.
Would you find this odd, I wondered if it was maybe a partner of one of the teachers coming to pick up, which would explain being in a “prime” (couldn’t get much closer) pick up spot but leaving to take his dog for a walk just as the children are all coming out, but I couldn’t imagine anyone with any links to kids parking so inconsiderately for getting past. I guess he could have broke down and was waiting on help but I just didn’t get that from him.
Am I over thinking things or would you find this odd?