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School pick up twat

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Revoltingrhyme · 25/05/2023 22:11

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?

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JohnnyYenSetHimselfOnFireAgain · 26/05/2023 10:45

"Lovely done filler". There's a perfect example of an oxymoron right there!

Season0fTheWitch · 26/05/2023 10:52

I'm the platinum blonde, fake tanned mum in a school of boden wearing parents. They hold their husbands closer when I arrive and I think some of them are told to not talk to me anymore. There's one sleazy dad who tries it on with all the mums, he's married and she thinks she got a good one.

Thinkbiglittleone · 26/05/2023 10:59

Is it possible he knows the woman outside of school pick up so cuts in to chat to her?

We have a lot of Dads at school pick up and 2 dads happily come and have a chat to me while we are waiting to go in, they are not flirting, just chatting like I would to a school mum.

We have a line, it is very loosely adhered to though.

Revoltingrhyme · 26/05/2023 11:10

DressMadeOfSeashells · 26/05/2023 07:57

I'm in Liverpool and there were loads of mums like this at my kids primary school. Then there was me...

The school doesn't begin with the letter 'O' and on a road beginning with 'G', is it?

No but you’re strikingly close 😁

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Turfwars · 26/05/2023 11:10

School mums where I live: Dunnes long hoodie, jeans or leggings and battered runners/flip flops. Zero makeup, and hair a birds nest , or Next smart casual workwear with a work ID hanging off them.

School dads: concrete encrusted work boots, Hi-vis and a dust filled car, or actual tractor, boiler suit, wellies, with a whiff of eau-de-slurry from the whole ensemble. One or two office workers in smart casual but mostly workmen or farmers.

mindutopia · 26/05/2023 11:19

Revoltingrhyme · 25/05/2023 22:51

Ive just had to look up dry robes! Who would make their afternoon more hellish by adding a swim before a school run? Or perhaps they’re onto something we aren’t!

😂 Oh no, this is bad. I literally go for a wild swim quite regularly before the school run. In fact, was thinking of doing it today, though has been too hot for a dry robe for at least a month.

Zarataralara · 26/05/2023 11:21

Can I rage at the selfish cow who arrives half an hour before drop up and pick up ( god forbid she might have to walk 200 yards from the free car park) in a car that could double as an armoured tank it’s so big. Parks opposite my house with her engine running, presumably for heater in the winter , a/c in the summer. You are a selfish, lazy, polluting idiot.
Also the parents who park on the double yellow, right on the road junction so their children don’t have to walk the couple of hundred yards extra from the car park.

toomanyleggings · 26/05/2023 11:21

I once saw a mum on the school run who had a toddler walking ( not on reins) near a main road, three dogs on leads in one hand and was holding a breastfeeding baby in a shawl with her other arm as she walked. Thought she was a bit of a twat tbh.
I would also like to watch this Liverpool school run mum’s show. Sounds much more interesting than my lot.

DejaVoodoo · 26/05/2023 11:24

mindutopia · 26/05/2023 11:19

😂 Oh no, this is bad. I literally go for a wild swim quite regularly before the school run. In fact, was thinking of doing it today, though has been too hot for a dry robe for at least a month.

A morning swim in the sea is the most amazing thing ever! I do it regularly. Wakes me up and puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day! Very good for the immune system, too.

DejaVoodoo · 26/05/2023 11:25

*wild swims not in the sea are also good.

MrsRandom123 · 26/05/2023 11:27

Hannahsbananas · 25/05/2023 22:46

Are you jealous that he bypasses you on the way to someone else?!
Just wondering what the relevance of your false tan, platinum hair, general high maintenance references are?

That was my 1st thought too 🤣 OP sounds jealous….he goes straight for a certain type which she describes herself as being as well but he completely bypasses her.

HerMammy · 26/05/2023 11:28

@Season0fTheWitch
Probably all MNers, the nasty bitchiness on this thread about other women's appearance is the grim thing not nail, tan or filler.
Snide comments and the 'reasons' for this, how about because they want to, can afford to and it's none of your business.
PPs like to say these women do it because of low self esteem etc , I'd say the ones criticising are those with esteem issues that they have to insult other women & cling to their men; nobody wants your husband hell you probably don't either 🤣🤣

Revoltingrhyme · 26/05/2023 11:33

MrsRandom123 · 26/05/2023 11:27

That was my 1st thought too 🤣 OP sounds jealous….he goes straight for a certain type which she describes herself as being as well but he completely bypasses her.

This has been addressed several times by myself and other posters assuming you HRTFT

OP posts:
Revoltingrhyme · 26/05/2023 11:34

I suggest you all watch this video Link

I admit this kid does look cool.

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TallulahBetty · 26/05/2023 11:34

OMG I forgot the Chelsea Tractor mums who HAVE to bring the car twice a day, and mow down everyone else, who are walking.

No disabled badges, before anyone starts.

MrsRandom123 · 26/05/2023 11:36

Revoltingrhyme · 26/05/2023 11:33

This has been addressed several times by myself and other posters assuming you HRTFT

No because the first few posts bored me but you def sound triggered.

Jellycats4life · 26/05/2023 11:44

The mental image of the running-mad couple jogging on the spot and holding hands outside the classroom is hysterical 🤣 It’s like something straight out of Motherland.

Thereisnoname · 26/05/2023 11:49

bussteward · 26/05/2023 09:30

I’m starting school runs in September, sounds exciting! Where can I get a Dry Robe to fit a horse?

Don't know about a horse but you can get them for your dog now 🤣🤣

stayflufft · 26/05/2023 11:49

horseyhorsey17 · 26/05/2023 09:43

Urgh, what a slimeball. There was one of those at my kids' primary school - no looker, breath that could strip paint, but tried it on with all the mums, including me. His wife (who was really nice and didn't deserve to be married to him) kicked him out and ended up having to get a restraining order as he showed his true colours then by stalking her.

The woman that really annoyed me at pickup was the hideous Weeble whose revolting little Tory-in-the-making spoilt brat knocked my kids' front teeth out at Cubs with a cricket bat. It was an accident, fine, but did the vile woman once approach me and apologise or ask how my son was, let alone offer to pay for dental treatment? No, she studiously avoided my eye in the playground for the next three years until my son went to secondary school, and would wobble off if she saw me coming. I heard through the grapevine that, according to her, my son 'learned a valuable lesson' although I am unclear what it was, other than some idiots shouldn't be allowed near sporting equipment and others shouldn't be allowed to breed. And she was a sanctimonious right wing church-going type. Urgh. As ugly on the inside as on the outside.

Very restrained of you. I would have called her a fat cunt. To her face.

stayflufft · 26/05/2023 11:51

Season0fTheWitch · 26/05/2023 10:52

I'm the platinum blonde, fake tanned mum in a school of boden wearing parents. They hold their husbands closer when I arrive and I think some of them are told to not talk to me anymore. There's one sleazy dad who tries it on with all the mums, he's married and she thinks she got a good one.

Really? Does anyone actually tell their DH they aren’t allowed to talk to certain women? 🤔

NoTouch · 26/05/2023 11:54

If that is actually what is happening, rather than he just knows and is friendly with these mums, I don't think it would even register on my radar - I would either be chatting to the other fat, short, poor mums or probably using my phone. I would just assume he knows them.

Why are you are even noticing this? It does sound a bit judgey or jealous of either him or the mums.

AxolotlOnions · 26/05/2023 11:54

People do their hair to go to the gym!? I don't even brush mine, just put it in a ponytail and go! And why are they picking their children up THEN going to the gym? Sounds like people who just want you to think they work out to me!

Andanotherone01 · 26/05/2023 11:57

Before I even read your second post, I knew this was going to be Liverpool

sunglassesonthetable · 26/05/2023 12:00

People do their hair to go to the gym!? I don't even brush mine, just put it in a ponytail and go! And why are they picking their children up THEN going to the gym? Sounds like people who just want you to think they work out to me!

No " going to the gym " isn't necessarily involved with wearing gym kit anymore.

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 26/05/2023 12:04

Revoltingrhyme · 25/05/2023 22:44

We are in Liverpool, so it’s very much in the culture to be so glam all the time 😂

I knew that, the use of false tan exposed you! Grin

Haven't noticed any dad's like this at our school - but I did for the first time ever see a dad so good looking he took my breath away for a second. I did NOT approach him though!