A school run mum blocked the driveway then refused to move when asked to

[DillyDallyDayDream]

I work a few doors down from a school/preschool as a nanny. The house has a doubled dropped kerb and double driveway.
I'd dropped my charge off at school and was getting the younger ones into the car when one of the preschool mums parked her huge 4x4 across the dropped kerb of the house I work in.
I asked her politely to move her car as I was going out and told her she can't legally block the driveway. She got quite arsey saying that she was late and there was no where else to park.
Was I being unreasonable to ask her to move??
Was I being unreasonable to report her to the local pcso after school whilst they were monitoring the parking?

quite Everlong, although i do have a 4X4 and everything I have said is true. it is just TOO much fun to wind up some people!

ah! iggles! you truly are funny. if you didnt drive such a short car i would luff to be your friend!

Ha!

Don't think I'm sort some how

your sort

huh? my sort of what?

ohh, you thought i wanted you to be my friend...! No.

Oh I just couldn't see us hanging out together.
I don't go out of my way to wind folk up

Oh and I do have a 4x4 too

that's good everlong

i was actually talking to iggle, hence why i said 'ah! iggles! you truly are funny. if you didnt drive such a short car i would luff to be your friend!

so, i wouldnt actually want to 'hang out' with you either

Ring the police Let them tow it away or give her a fine Get her registration number and ideally a photo for them Also consider speaking to the local council who could send in a traffic warden/paint white lines in front of your drive/double yellow the area

Cool.

Inconsiderate drivers tend to drive around in anything from a fiesta to a range rover. The point is park considerately and don't be a git. (I drive a rather grubby land rover defender and have never ever blocked a driveway).

No YWNBU think you know that though eh?

Hermione Weasley - yes there are environmental issues with other things too. You don't need to go on foreign holidays, or to fly to them (train much better). You don't need to use vast amounts of electricity (see other post about the incredible number of weekly washes most people do). And you don't need to have lots of children (big contributor to carbon emissions if you live a western lifestyle).
And to the poster who says that their having a 4X4 should be balanced against their not going on foreign holidays. This isn't a game, there aren't any brownie points. Emissions are destroying the planet (or at least the planet as we know it). I fear for our children - don't you? And let's face it, if you drive a 4X4, if you're not going on foreign holidays it's not because of your concern for the environment.
So if you're not flying, that's great (and no I'm not perfect or anywhere near it, but I haven't flown in the last 10 years and chose a car based on its low emissions - it does the job fine).
But one of the very easiest and most obvious ways of reducing your carbon emissions is simply using a smaller car (if you've decided that you're going to use one at all). Almost nobody "needs" to drive an SUV. They didn't even exist until quite recently. So the decision to drive an SUV is a big V sign to the future of our children, including your own (and even more immediately to those in the most vulnerable countries in the developing world).
I really think that when our children are adults, and the impact of global warming is becoming frighteningly obvious to absolutely everyone, they will look back on their childhoods spent in their parents' SUVs and on flights to exotic holidays with anger and disgust.

yanbu
report to school and pcso, that's absolutely fine and normal

parking in front of anyones driveway, whether on horseback or a 4x4 or whether parking to go to the shop/school/dr's etc is not a necessary thing to do under any circumstance. If the Mum was late she needs to leave earlier, it's as simple as (and I was late this morning so not judging lateness per se )

I need an SUV, no question about it. You'd can't assume that because one family can manage with a small car or no car that all of them can. Without mine I couldn't leave my house. At all. Ever. I do not feel bad about having one at all, why should I?

I do sometimes secretly hanker after a little mini though

China is now building a new coal-fired power station every week and they don't give a fuck about carbon emissions.

Whether or not Twofacedcows drives a Range Rooney or a Toyota Pious will not make the blindest bit of difference to climate change when set against industrialisation elsewhere in the world.

ohh, you thought i wanted you to be my friend...! No. Quote

This made me laugh.

Manatee, I thought we had an invisible shield around our island so we can have good cool virtuous low CO2 air and China can have hot CO2 and pollutant riddled air.

Actually I didn't and it's a good point well made.

Love the Toyota Pious. It must emit clouds of Smug when it's driven.

It is a stupid point. Emissions make a massive difference to the health of people who breathe them in and most especially to vulnerable people like children and pedestrians and cyclists who have to breathe them more than people inside the cars with their filtered air...

So do 4x4s come fitted with COS and nitrous oxide scrubbers? I didn't know that Offred.

It is a reason to consider whether you need a car at all, whether you drive short trips, whether you sit waiting outside school with your engine on and also what type of car you have. A low emissions car for it's class still has higher emissions than a low emissions car of a lower class. If you could use the lower class one but you want the higher class one you still create unnecessary emissions just get to feel good about the car being low emissions.

YABU

Not really

The highest emissions come from poor people driving old bangers with dodgy MOTs. Modern newer cars are very clean and efficient.

Yes pessary but they don't have an opportunity to make a more responsible choice.