AIBU for getting totally pissed off when it's school run time?

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I live on what is, normally, a reasonably quiet road with a (fantastic, got to be said) school at the end of it. It bloody well winds me up that between the hours of 8.30 and 9.30am and 3.15 and 4.00pm I can't get out of my drive without almost mowing down a child or hitting oncoming traffic and at the worst times the traffic is backed up from one end of the road to the other (it's a mile long!!). The lollypop lady stops the traffic for a single parent and child and doesn't wait for a bit of a queue to build up and on friday waited in the middle of the road for someone who hadn't even got to the gates yet despite nobody else waiting to cross. Common sense seems to go out of the window for those that have decided to drive to the school and how a day goes by without an accident I will never know. I know that I will be one of these parents at the school gates in a couple of years but I will walk to the gates (people 3 doors up from me drive......why?!) and cross the road outside my house to avoid the lollypop lady. These times mon-fri are absolute no-go times and I'm finding myself feeling frustrated because it almost dictates when I do things throughout the day. I have also seen people arrive at 2.30pm to pick their children up, just so they get a space near the school (why not just leave later but walk?)
AIBU?

Notsuch - You are joking..( says hopefully?! )

Notsuch- you clearly haven't read my other post's! I do walk to work and, quite frankly, I like to actually see what I am buying. I enjoy the shopping experience and doing it on a computer doesn't float my boat!
Oh sorry for the long time between post's BTW, I worked a night shift last night and it's taken me all this time to get past the school hahahaha!! Please do not berate me for driving home from work following a 12 and a half hour night shift.....I defy anyone to tell me they would still walk the mile and a half home despite hanging out of their arse!!!
In all seriousness tho, I finished at 8.30am and refused to leave site until 9.10am because of the school traffic..........how is that fair?

Well we won't berate you for driving home from work if you don't berate the parents' whose circumstances you have no clue about.

It's fair because everyone is allowed to use the roads. It's busy at that time, therefore it takes longer. It's the same for everyone surely?

My drive to work takes four times as long during rush hour, because lots of other people are using the road.

We go to our catchment school which is 1.1 miles away. Downhill all the way so we walk. But with a tired 4yr old(one of the youngest in reception) and a 3yr old I drive home. Sometimes I get there early, not to get a 'good spot', but because the playgroup we go to has just kicked out and there isn't time to go home only for 10 mins later to head off to school, so we wait outside instead.

I'd look at this question in a few years time when your little one goes to school. How lucky you are to live only 0.5 a mile from your catchment school

YABU the school was there first! We have a primary school on our road, and yes it is annoying that it's a no go in the car at certain times but we knew that would be the case when we bought a property so near a school.

Just don't get me started on the lack of parking because of the (two) people across the road who have their four cars parked along the road...

Have you spoken to the school? They might be willing to put a note in the newsletter or have a word with the Lollypop lady. If you can't get in or leave your house during the times then it is a problem, if it's just busy then I'm afraid you'll just have to get on with it. On the plus side it must be lovely and quiet during school holiday time.

We once looked at a house which backed on the primary school playing field. Apparently this put off a lot of people. Personally I wouldn't mind the noise of children during the school day in return for guaranteed quiet during the evening and holidays. Of course I have school aged children so maybe retired folks would not want this.

Your children will be able to walk to school....lush!

Well there is nothing you can do about it so you may as well try and chill out about it???????. and .

I?m a SAHM so I stroll the school run but I have friends who live in the same road as I do that dash from work to the school as fast as possible, the only way they make it in time is to drive there.

My last house was worse, rush hour started at 7.45am until 9.15 and began again at 4.45 until approximately 7pm (or later if the main a road was shut or had problems). If I chose to come home from friends any later than 4.15pm my 20 minute journey would extend by approximately 1 hour. THAT was a PITA!

There are certain times that going out here is a pain, once the DC?s get to school the scales are tipped by the convenience of being able to walk.