AIBU to think scooters on the school run are a bloody nuisance

[17leftfeet]

I have no problem with little ones in them that are under the control of the adults they are with

But 7 yos plus who career down the paths at a million miles an hour are just not on!

Especially when they are going back and forth

And a new menace this morning -the electric scooter that you can't hear coming -I nearly got flattened this morning

And shouting 'scuse me while making no attempt to slow down is not good manners!

Pavements are for people not scooters!

17leftfeet, but there are more elderly folk in our local park than there are on the pavements! Large numbers of them (there is retirement complex nearby), doing their daily constitutionals (or whatever it is they call them) there. Alongside the joggers, the cyclists, the scooters, the dog-walkers and everything else. I actually wouldn't let my kids scoot in the park on the main paths, far too dangerous both for them and everyone else. So where does that leave?!

YANBU. It's all got a bit out of control. Mine used to scoot to school (years and years ago) when children were still told to be mindful of the general public and respect their right to use a public thoroughfare.

On my way to work nowadays I walk down a very very busy road with lots of traffic turning out of side streets. It's a far cry from the quieter roads my children scooted to school on and it worries me that a child will lose control on the scooter and veer into very busy and often fast moving traffic - and of course that someone will shoot out of a side street not expect a wee one to shoot into the path of the car at speed.

All that aside and I may be turning into a grumpy old woman but when mine were four and five and six we did not take the scooter to the supermarket and the shopping centre. Are people now going a bit bonkers to think it's appropriate.

There were two children in M&S yesterday on scooters! DD2 was and loudly pronounced that it's not very sensible!

There's a low-ish wall outside my classroom door. I saw a younger sibling scooting along the top of the wall this afternoon. His mother was kind of ignoring it, until she saw my face and that I was about to tell him in no uncertain terms to get down, at which point she rather feebly told him herself.

if my DC knocked down an old biddy

So it's OK if I call you a "young airhead"?

go ahead UP.

If my DD was scooting on a busy pavement she would be at snails pace at my side.

Under my control, so there would not be much risk of her knocking someone off.

If she went ahead, too fast didnt listen to me, I would consider this to be

extremely dangerous and a risk not worth taking, and would therefore not let her scoot.

simples

I was taken from behind by a 7 year old on a scooter yesterday.

His fucking stupid mum who'd been ineffectually yelling: 'slow down' and 'mind the lady' and 'Whoops!' said he didn't mean it.

I guess not, but I didn't take it that well.

I realise now that I'm an old biddy. A fucking angry old biddy, as she found.

I don't understand the argument that if children aren't using scooters on pavement, they will automatically start driving to school instead. Surely if scooters are being used, they are within walking distance anyway? The parent would be walking anyway so why is it scooters or cars?

My son has nearly been bought off his bike (while on the cycle path) by the antics of several scooter riders who race ahead and weave in and out. He has had to slam on his brakes when one veered in front of him and HE was tutted at by the parent.

Scooters ridden properly are fine but most are a menace

It appears that some children are incapable of walking now the new in thing is to have a scooter.

My 4.5 year old can walk 5 miles, thanks, but we just find the short trip to school easier and more fun to scoot.

Yes - what a miseryguts comment candycoated. On the whole, I reckon the kids who can scoot a long way are also the ones who can walk a long way. Have you ever tried a scooter? It's bloody hard work, much harder than walking!

even if you do go faster!