to be annoyed at parents driving their kids to school

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When they live no more than 300 yrds from school gate!

YABU.What the hec does it have to do with you? Get a job or a hobby if you have nothing else to think about and stop being such a busybody! HATE people that stick their unwanted noses in.

I see a woman drive to school in her pyjamas and dressing gown everyday, she lives on my street and we live near school. Not bothered about the driving as we all have days where we CBA or are dropping off en route but I think not bothering to dress or get out the car
is a bit lazy. Or AIBU?

Goblin

i just wrote a huge response about people having blue badges due to blindness blind, that disabled people use the pool etc and now wish i hadn't deleted it

pity we don't give out badges for general ignorance, huh?

Some people have very limited life experiences, and wear their blinkers all their lives.
It's when those types end up with any kind of power over you that you've got real problems.

OP, I agree that more people should walk their children to school, and that it's a valuable life skill to learn about traffic and weather first-hand.
Equally, there are some people that don't do so for very good reasons and they don't have to give them.

cantpooinpeace ...No yanbu. That is very lazy.

I was going to write a general post about this but I pissed off now.

We have a gym in our back shed. My husband uses it on Mon, Wed & Frid.

He has Multiple Sclerosis. He can just about make down the garden (its only a little garden). But he can sit on the exercise bike and he can do some chest pressess.

It keeps him mobile and it helps to stop him feeling like a weakling.

He has a blue badge and he gets DLA.

Because he is disabled. If you dont think he is I suggest you aquire an ear infection that makes you feel dizzy, spend all day sticking needles into your legs and arms to try and replicate nerve pain and tie a few wieghts to your person then take a sleeping pill.

And that is on a GOOD day.

He also works. Fucking shock horror, he works and exercises what a faker!

When he has to do the school run which is hardly ever because he cant get out of bed that early he also drives.

But does he look disabled TFMDV?
Or is he an attractive male specimen who can be judged because he looks well fit?

YANBU. Lazy, thoughtless sods!

He is actually a bit of hottie. Very tall and broad (although his legs have got quite thin now ).

Doesnt look at all disabled until he tries to move.

Even that doesnt prove anything because he must be faking it or high or pissed.

Big black men dont get MS. Didnt you know?

So, perhaps a 1000 metre exclusion zone for parent vehicles other than those with blue badges?
Like park and ride, but park and walk instead.

At our school, almost everyone is off to a hard day of work. If that makes them lazy...

But will no one think of the children and their balloon-like wobblesomness?
What about the new guidance about toddlers toddling more?
A nice brisk walk in the am could be the very ticket.

Back to the point.

Lots of people drive their children to the local schools round here. No-one travels far, we just dont have those sort of schools.

I know lots of people who drive because they dont want to walk. No other reason.

It does cause problems because the road where the big school is (800 pupils) is not very wide. It causes terrible jams. I have to drive past to get to work twice a week (do have to drive because I use my car for visits -would rather not). It is horrible and really nerve wracking. Those hop on buses get stuck and it all kicks off regularly.

BUT there were times when I drove DS to school when he went there (moved him to SN school). When I was first pg and the times when I have been very low. I cant bear interacting with anyone and just want to get him to school and get home asap.

So I am guilty of adding to the general chaos at times.

I've walked my Dc's to school 5 mins away, walked back home and then driven (in my small but perfectly adequate car), back past the school to work for the last 9 years because I think its important. The weather makes no difference to this and if I'm running late I walk quicker. So in my view YANBU

Oi! I am not dissing people who 'don't look disabled' but have blue badges and quite legitimately park in disabled parking spaces. FFS I should know - my sister has cystic fibrosis and has a blue badge but she looks 'fine' to the casual observer. I know that her getting into the gym is the only way she can up her lung function but that walking 200m to get there is sometimes too much.

I was referring to people who used the gym at my local shopping centre who didn't have blue badges and were just parking in those or the P&C spaces because they are closest to the entrance to the mall.

Some people are just bloody lazy. That's a fact.

Have you read notsuch's post.

Pretty clear what she thinks though innit?

Oh, no I didn't

Well she's clearly rather ignorant and let's hope this thread has educated her a bit.

Notsuch, of course disabled people can use a gym! What a crazy thing to say!

It's not an issue if you have no car. You just have to walk, so you get used to it.

cantpoo -- umm, I know this sounds like 'an excuse for everything', but the lovely mum of my daughter's best friend is in the worst phase of recurrent social phobia and depression at the moment. Driving to school in pjs and letting the children out is the nearest she's got to normal parenting for a while.

Yes, I could go round and offer to take them, but that makes her feel still less of a parent (and atm she probably wouldn't be able to bring herself to open the door -- she'd have to hide).

Lancelottie Your daughter's friend is an extreme example. The majority of parents driving short distances to school and parking dangerously because they'll "only be a minute" have no real reason to be doing so. It's just for their own convenience, regardless of how inconvenient they may make things for other people, but they're alright, so what's the problem!

Yanbu OP. Traffic kills and causes pollution and affects everyone.

YANBU. It's hardly possible to get close to DSS's school for all the 4 by 4's in the way/double parked. Headmaster has just had to issue a letter saying that if parents threaten the parking assistants verbally again he will be calling the police . Madness.

Scholes, I know. Poor woman knows quite well though that people are looking at her and assuming she IS just a lazy and entitled sod. (Incidentally, she has a very involved and competent DH, so the children are not neglected; this is just a small way she can be part of their normal day.)

99% of the time we walk DD1 to school. I do have to go to work straight after so I could drive her there and go straight to work - would be a good deal easier in fact. But I like to make the effort to walk because we get more chance to talk that way. It means I am 10/15 minutes later getting to work. But then, I am lucky to work locally and have an employer who allows this. A lot of people don't.

I'd get the train most days as I could walk on to the station after dropping DD1 and there is a convenient train, but it's prohibitively expensive. £7.00 return for a nine minute train ride, three stops. Petrol is cheaper (still).