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to want to vandalise every car on the double yellows...

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IWishIWasSheRa · 18/10/2012 22:59

outside school? I want to keep a can of shaving foam in my pocket and spray a bloody great cross on the windscreen of every inconsiderate bastard that forces us to walk out from behind a parked car to cross the road!
It creates a bottleneck for the other cars so they can't see us, they don't listen to the schools pleas, and the council do occasional ticket visits but they are so bloody visible they act as a deterrent for that day only! Then there are also the Disabled badges which are legally allowed on the single yellow lines, I understand but it doesn't make it any safer- and one of the mums leaves her disabled mother in the car- so surely if the person requiring the badge isn't leaving the car there is no requirement to be on the line!

I'm sure every school has this problem but tonight I needed a rant! I know it would be a v bad example to actually get the shaving foam out but I like the idea of their self important faces when they get back to their cars (not the disabled badge owners, the jumped up parents who are too busy to park safely!)

Any better ideas?

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SugariceAndScary · 19/10/2012 09:35

I had one of my pictures of a car parking twat put on YPLAC. Grin

It gave me an immense sense of satisfaction.

FireOverBabylon · 19/10/2012 09:45

Seriously, do contact the school over this. They often make a big thing of it with the pupils - getting the children to stand outside school to ask parents why they're parking illegally, creating posters to put up on the railings etc. The child in the car may have greater pester power than you have.

ScarahStratton · 19/10/2012 11:03

Fire, I speak to the school probably 5-6 times a term. At the very minimum. They know the problem, they send letters out regularly, but unfortunately the entitled cunts that park like that are exactly the ones who ignore reasonable requests. It's a complete waste of time.

Any reasonable person already knows they shouldn't park across my drive/on a pavement etc.

MeFour · 19/10/2012 11:10

Ooh slightly ot
But seeing the Spanish pictures on that site do you think they would appreciate the picture I have of the local council parking ticket enforcer person parked on double yellow lines in a pay and display carpark?

ScarahStratton · 19/10/2012 11:23

I should think they'd love it! I'd have sent it to the papers, you're a much nicer person than me.

IWishIWasSheRa · 19/10/2012 13:04

Mefour- definitely post it up!

I have drafted a letter for the school to send out by parentmail, I just dropped it up there with a suggestion that the children have a poster competition to discourage inconsiderate parking. Don't worry ladies, the letter to parents had a suitably mumsnetty passive aggressive tone!

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Tailtwister · 19/10/2012 13:31

YANBU to want to. DS1 has recently started at the school nursery and on the second week of term a notice went out about inconsiderate parking (across people's driveways, zig zag lines etc). What gets me is that people are so obvious about it and clearly don't give a shit.

ChessieFL · 19/10/2012 13:51

Buy a uniform that looks like a traffic warden's uniform. Make up an official looking badge. Hover outside school at drop-off/pick-up time looking official and scribbling down numberplates.

Sparklingbrook · 19/10/2012 16:41

How about this Grin

ChessieFL · 19/10/2012 19:28

That wasn't quite what I had in mind!! Not sure anyone would mistake you for a real traffic warden. In fact you could probably get in trouble hanging round a school dressed like that.......

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