To never take my dc to school again because...

[Toomuchbooty]

So picking my dc up today he was messing about while I tried to strap him in so I got into the seat next to him, shut the door so as to give all the other parents room to get passed and strapped him in, turn to get out of the car and guess what

The chuffing bloody stupid shitting child lock is on isn't it!! I'm stuck in the back of my own car with every parent in chrisingdom walking past with their kids!

I attempted to climb through the gap, something I haven't done since I was about 10 and didn't have the rather impressive behind I have now, cultivated over the years with Ben and Jerrys and crisps!

I tried ever conceivable limb first in an attempt to squeeze through with no success, all the time I'm sure I had a crowd of 50 people watching, and quite possibly was making the car shake somewhat with the exertion!

This escape attempt was interrupted randomly with my DC asking what I was doing and can we just go now?!

How did I escape you ask? Firstly I rang my sister who lives close, she didn't answer, so I did the only thing I could in the situation, I waited til nearly all the parents had gone, targeted one straggler I had not seen before, knocked on the window when they got close and just did a pathetic help me face while pointing at the door handle and mouthing 'can you open my door please'

So I can never take my child to that school again can I?!

Poor you! I once locked the car keys in the boot and had to post myself under the parcel shelf to retrieve them. Horrific. There's no panic like the panic of being trapped or having to squeeze through a small space.

Ok, coming clean - I've done that too. And my arse is also somewhat more magnificent than pre kids!
I did feel like a tit but since starting this mothering lark, I've barely any shame so I knocked on the window as another Mum walked by and she let me out. I didn't even know her!
This is not a moving school/country/galaxy offence
I hope

I love these stories but they make me question my absolute lack of shame, this wouldn't even have embarrassed me

I once grabbed a passing parent that I hardly knew to come in and get a giant spider from my staircase, I couldn't go upstairs past it to free my two year old from his baby gated room.

Home school. In another country.

Or do school drop off in disguise 😂😂

I gave DS (18 months) my car keys to hold to distract him from the buckling in, shut the door and he promptly locked the door with the key fob. Despite lots of 'press the button DS' which he did, it was only the lock button.

Phoned DH, he came with the spare, by which time DS was looking a little anxious and bemused at the length of this game, and released him.

Got a great picture of him in the car waving at me with the keys though

Lol, I knew I could climb through from the back of my car to the front, but I've just done half a tub of some Ben and Jerry pecan caramel stuff and now I'm worried.

I would have had no problem straight away banging on the window to attract attention and pointing at the door handle to ask them to help.

Why don't people like asking for help or deliberately avoid asking? Everyone I've ever asked has always been glad to help and something like this you have a laugh over together once they let you out. You are out of the car and they go away with a smile and feeling good they helped someone. Win win.

Great post

Just pretend you were conducting a social experiment for an imaginary older nephew/cousin/son etc to count how many people walk by until somebody rescues you, and tomorrow you will be catching the bus being ten pence short of the bus fare.

I'd have bashed on the window for help and wouldn't care if they all laughed ....... better than I did when I locked my then 2 year old child in the car with the keys inside at Tesco years ago - had to get security man to watch him whilst I rang DH from inside shop (no mobile in those days)

I love it - totally sensible suggestion by PPs to send your child through the gap to the front - but can you imagine the other parents faces??? You sat in the back and your child sat in the drivers seat - that would have been even funnier!!!!

thank-you, I was feeling so fed up with a stinking cold, you've made me howl.

I'm with Nancy - home school in another country

this is so funny, I'm just imagining the car shaking as tried to climb through the seats