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?

It isn't about emissions compared to another car it is about having a bigger car than you need and driving it short distances half empty. The total emissions would be less if you had a small fuel efficient car, it isn't about comparing like with like or new with old.

It's not going well for Two!!
Everlong -I was so intrigued to know what you wrote that was deleted yesterday!!

Luiji - thank you. We were planning a larger family. Sadly it looks like that isn't going to happen... At least I've got a huge car to piss off intolerant argumentative judgy types

jack have a instead of this nonsense

I don't know about you onyx but as I explained up the thread most of the parents at my school would get to and from school quicker on bicycles and some would on foot because they don't live far away and there is a lot of palaver involved with cars that there isn't with walking or bikes. I pass lots of people's homes before they get home, parents who leave the gates at the same time as me pass me when I am almost home everyday.

Onyx

I drive my car the short distance to school if I'm going out straight after drop off, same at pick up.

But you're assuming that I drive my 4x4 short distances ... I don't. As I said, we have ours for our long journeys on holiday.

I'm not!

I'm afraid I can't divulge that now.

You just had to be there I suppose

gin, of course it is just a car!! and it is not a tool to make me feel superior, i don't need anything to make me feel like that!

Yes you are : " it is about having a bigger car than you need and driving it short distances half empty."

i don't need anything to make me feel like that!

Is that because you feel that way anyway?

So my car is empty a lot of times during week just me and baby dd in it. But evenings and weekends it's full. You can't judge how full a car is for school run alone. How do you know who they've already dropped off, or older family members due to pick up.

Oh dear Two. It's worse than I thought.

Iggly - do you mean she feels like a tool anyway?!!

What I'm assuming is you don't need a 4x4, for which the argument is it keeps your children safe (although not sure how they compare to the safer models of Volvo) at the expense of posing a risk to other people's children, bikes, other road users etc.

Gi. Yuk are coming across as if you have an motoring inferiority complex.

GIn you

That wasn't directed personally at you. I was explaining about people who have big half empty cars on the school run. The argument about 4x4s is that they are unnecessary and dangerous.

So just to check , if I drive my Discovery considerately to school , from a distance of some 5 miles away with no pavement and no public transport service whatsoever , with 6 out of 7 seats occupied for at least 50% of the journey , that's ok ? Presuming I don't abandon it across someone's driveway of course .

And most of the time , it's full up of shopping or other random crap on the way back, as we do all our daily shopping errands on the same round trip to save fuel . Being economical and all that .

Haha not a tool, superior

On a totally unrelated note - Everlong, yes..I will have a thank you

The space inside a 4 x4 is the same if. It smaller than estates and some saloons, don't see these being criticised. They are nor prominent because of their height and profile so have become such a target.

hmmm...lots of 4x4 silly comments. I drive a 4x4 and would never do what the woman the op mentioned has done! I agree with the taking photos as evidence - she is a bloody idiot and needs her sense of entitlement fined the crap out of her!

Offred - but I do need it, as I said before, as otherwise I can't fit 2 dogs, 2 children and DH and I in the car to be able to travel to our other home during every school holiday.

Living - sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Why?