School pick up twat

[Revoltingrhyme]

We’re all anonymous here so we can secretly rage at the one person who drives us insane at school pick up.

Now I’ll start by saying this isn’t an attack on the women, I am a young, high maintenance woman myself- platinum hair, false tan etc but there’s a few groups of similar mums at the school pick up who come in gym sets, hair all done, lovely done filler. Very glam.

But it’s this one dad who sets my teeth on edge. He will cut the queue every day and walk up the path past everyone until he finds one of these mums and tries to flirt with them very blatantly. It’s the strut he does, the specific type of woman he looks for. He’s not even cutting right up to the front, just until he sees one of these mums who are simply trying to pick up their kids. Argh he makes my skin crawl and it never fails to irritate me every day 😂

Anyone else have that one twat at pick up who annoys you?

@Latenightreader ha ha, yes, we have a couple of these. Always talking in an overly loud voice and incredibly interested in what their child is saying - always giving loud, textbook responses "I know you're tired and I know you're embarrassed but you are not to hit Mummy" lol..Another Mum, they're usually playfully chasing one another or singing a duet. I almost feel like they're trying to showcase to the rest of us 'how it's done.' It's very annoying.

Schools where I live you're lucky to see mums not in dressing gowns for pick up :-)

Just looked up Dry Robes, basically outdoor Oodies….quite fancy one for our beach trips! 😅

Queue?

In our playground we have

• blonde, tanned, filler in gym sets
• baggy T-shirts, leggings and messy buns
• one dry robe mum
• work attire mums that are always either running to get the kids in or running to pick the kids up
• a few hippy mums
• one leather skirt, harness top goth mum

Liverpool? I thought is was tracksuits or pyjamas for school picks ups and Tesco.

There’s one glam gym set mum on the school run. It’s not my style but she looks fantastic, to be honest.

There’s a few who look like they (carefully and artfully) got dressed in the dark. They’re very thin and on the wealthier side.

There’s definitely a contingent of mum’s who think they’re better than those who wear make up/make any kind of effort. These are a separate group to the ones mentioned immediately above.

Not yet spotted a dry robe despite the presence of wild swimmers among the school run cohort.

I fall into the office mum going to/coming from work category. Even out of work clothes I favour clean lines, no patterns, minimal amounts of colour.

My fuck off face is strong enough that if there is a pervy dad, he’s not made his presence known to me. I only exchange anything beyond the most basic pleasantries with about 3 other parents.

You should go over to the flash car thread. Maybe you two are in the same place.

Also start a rumour he’s a dealer.

.. Or that a friend of a friend got an STD from him

He sounds like a twat indeed.

Ours is a little village school and I don’t think we really have a school run twat? (Maybe that means it’s me!). We have a couple of cool mums (in terms of their clothing - they’re both lovely women), variations on a theme of workwear, and jeans and t-shirts generally. I often wear sports kit because after drop off is my best opportunity for a run or a workout before I start work myself. No dry robes, although I do have a homemade version thereof to get changed under after swimming - I’d never wear it away from the water though, I didn’t do a very good job making it. We also have a pony who visits at the end of each term (accompanied by mum, obviously) so her little girl can ride home, which I think is rather lovely.

Secretly gutted he doesn’t approach you

Hahaha at dry robes. Just googled and it how fecking ugly. I’m so glad my kids are in their 20s and 30s and I missed witnessing (on the fringes of course) this ridiculous phase

Ha ha they're fecking ugly but fecking warm. 👍🏻

Fine for the beach, drives me nuts on the school run.

Same as PJs. Good for bed, ridiculous in the school yard.

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The playground caterpillars? All they need is a set of deely boppers and it's like the Ugly Bug Ball.

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I live in dryrobesville

The point is, they haven't been for a swim. It's their everyday coat

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This thread is brilliant. In the interest of not being a lurker..

My daughters not yet school age, but I’ll be purchasing a dry robe in advance given how warm people they promise to be. I might take her one to pop on at pickup too to create a new type of obnoxious parent.

Won’t be looking forward to being rammed into a category based on my attire and people thinking I’m jealous if a creepy guy doesn't talk to me. Women are a fascinating breed aren’t they?!

Imagine the parking is the most annoying thing! Might just use my horse instead 😂

No fake tans or ‘that’ parent at our school.

We have

• the farmers, always in shorts
• the riders, always in stable yard-wear
• the stay-at-home, bread-baking church ladies, either in Kate Middleton-style dresses or skinny jeans and gilets
• the grandmas, in Joules
• the ‘others’ (of which I’m one) in leggings and tunics/jeans and hoodies

No obvious out of the ordinary dressing here but yes to the usual selfish parking and loud performance parenting.

In the summer one dad regularly comes roaring into the carpark in his pick up truck complete with trailer carrying a fucking jet-ski! Fyi he literally lives 2 minutes from the school so bringing that is an obvious show off attempt.

I knew it would be my hometown of Liverpool, school runs are like catwalks.

Sounds like you all deserve each other.

We have one at our school. Parks his massive 4x4 across the school gates, sits on the tailgate on his phone in Lycra tights with shorts over the top, hoody and baseball cap with peak at the back. When one of his fellow tw*ts greets him, it’s the hand clench, fist bump and hug. 🤮. I wouldn’t mind, they are in their late thirties.