To think that if school comes out at 3pm....

[Sparklingbrook]

There is no need to get to the school in the car at 2pm? Just driven past the school, there are parents there already.
That's five hours a week-waiting.

Agree but they baggy the closest best spots innit?

Maybe that is how it "times out" for them - you don't necessarily have time or inclination to go home and then go out again.

I like sitting in my car - it is warmer than my house.

What if they have just finished work/gym/town but theres not enough time to go home in between finishing and pick up?

I get them near me, 15 mins with their engines running

But how else will they make sure they are parked as close to the school as possible and their child doesn't have to walk?

I could understand the "on the way home from somewhere" argument at 2.45, or even 2.30 but sitting for an hour? surely you would go home even if just for 20 minutes or find somewhere else to go?

Yes, I suppose there are circumstances it would make sense, but a whole hour seems such a waste.
They are in what you would perceive as 'prime spots' though.

maybe they are just sad fekcers like those school mums at junior school who would arrive an hour early just so they could hang around in groups outside the school gates smoking fags and gossiping

They start parking outside our school at 2pm as well. They are preferable to all the others who park on the double yellow lines or on the pavement though

I walk.

I do have some sympathy with people who live really too far away to walk, but there are lots of legal spaces further up, even for people whose children melt in the rain.

Oh the latecomers park on the bit that says 'Coaches Only' and the grass verges they have been told not to park on in the monthly newsletter for the last 3 years Lost.

They're probably the same sad feckers who do their Christmas shopping in July.

Blimey molding they move the bins? Can you get one of those lockable bollard things?

Moulding can you not get a loackable bollard thing? not that you should have too but it would stop them parking there.

I feel sorry for people who live near schools and have to put up with the parking madness. I drove DS to school today for the first time as his asthma is mad and the parking of others astounded me. I was parked just a nice distance from a junction and a car still parked behind me with his back end half into the road.

Could your dad not park in front of them? Might get the message across.

I would get your dad to block them in - that might give them something to think about when he takes his sweet time moving to let them out again, if he can even be bothered to do it at all!

My little one finishes at 315 and we've been sat in the car park since 240. Its ages to sit anywhere BUT we are going away straight from school so I set off from home once the car was packed rather than go back in the house leaving the car advertising we were going away and dd2 very much enjoys pretending to drive the car while I sit in the passenger seat playing on my phone ;-)

Great minds Igginning!

I live very close to a school - they do it here too!!! Some of them only live a 5 minute walk from the school .............madness!!!

And it's ok to park on the pavement / resident only bay / disabled resident bay when it's raining ..................!!! AHHHH

I've seen people park on the pavement obstructing the school crossing and holding up traffic while they get their child out of the car into the road......................

I just think how much time they spend waiting. they could get out and have a walk or something. They could do 4 miles in an hour.

I must add the school has an agreement with the leisure centre next door that has a mahoosive car park that parents can use. .

YANBU!

People used to do that at my school, although a lot of the time it was nothing to do with parking, and more to do with the fact that too for many grown adults the chats in the playground are the biggest highlight of their social calendar.

There was no getting out to chat by the looks of it. One person in each car.

I haven't done the school gates for years. DS2 cycles and Ds1 gets the bus. Oh how I miss it. I hear nothing about anything.

I walk and the mum who lives two doors away takes her kids in her car. I ALWAYS beat them there.

Now I'm a size 18 and she's a bit larger than me, but if I can do it I don't understand why she doesnt

I got this this afternoon. My neighbour had drawn up outside her house, and was unloading her parents' car in the middle of the street because there were three school run cars with people in them parked outside mine and her houses.

I called over and asked her why on earth she'd thought she could park outside her own house at three o'clock? She laughed, and I'm sure the parents in the cars glowered at me but I couldn't care less. There is parking inside the school and they are being lazy fuckers. If they didn't like being called on it they could always park elsewhere in future.

Two mums at my school sit outside the school from 1pm (i know as i live beside the school) they come together, one of them doesnt need to collect her dcs til 3 and the other has a toddler who sits in the car with them for the two hours from 1-3pm. What makes me is that they live 0.5 miles from the school! They could easily walk with toddler in pushchair.

Youre you win the thread. That is bonkers.

Sofa that would really annoy me.