to be furious at this school run parking nightmare woman?

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So, excuse me while I try to calm down..... it has only just happened you see! . Usual scenario,, busy residential street, school run parking at a premium. I always scrupulously avoid parking over residents driveway exits where there is a single dropped kerb. I have just been told off by some van driver's wife (house has four cars parked out front) for parking over part of their double dropped kerb. Their kerb is twice the size of everyone else's, no doubt to feed their car collecting fetish, but my point is, as I made politely to her, that I had left an exit for her. It just wasn't the one she wanted to use. I know tempers get inflamed at these times, but our local situation is terrible, and I try my best not to upset anyone. I used to live on the same road, it's a small community, and I don't want to be unreasonable but this woman was so condescending and entitled and told me off like a six year old with a toileting problem. If it was a question of access for pushchairs, wheelchairs or the blind it would be different. Why should she assume she can have two free spaces on the street outside her house when everyone else gets one? I am looking forward to tomorrow's parking battle .

Sorry but YABU. You cannot park across a dropped kerb. We also have a dropped kerb at the ned of our drive which is twice the width of the one the neighbours have (due to plot size/position). We have 3 cars which we park side by side. There are currently road/pavement works at the end of our drive with barriers around them. We have had to endure 3 days (and counting) of manouvering the cars around as although we can still get 3 cars on the drive the gap on the drop kerb is currently only one cars width so first in has to be last out - which is making life very difficult especially with the frosty mornings. So I can fully appreciate van drivers wifes annoyance at you!

YABU

I live near a school and some selfish twat parked partially over my dropped kerb the other day. Perhaps she thought she'd 'left me an exit' as well. Strictly speaking she had but I would have had to have drive out at such an angle it would make it difficult and dangerous to exit my own driveway.

Oh and 'some van driver's wife' is exceptionally condescending. How unpleasant you sound.

Wow OP. Blocking someone's drive then making yourself out to be victim. You are some piece of work.

She was in the right. She will have paid for the extra parking and to have to curb dropped. You have no right to park there.

What they ^^ all said but also wtf was that toileting comment about. Do we tell off children for toileting problems?

I really, really hope the van belonged to the woman.

YABU. And rude. And sexist.

Triple whammy; well done, you!

If I understood you correctly then you parked over a dropped kerb?

If so then yabu

YABVU you shouldn't have obstructed her dropped kerb.

I also think yabu OP, but I'm going to let you off for the "told me off like a six year old with a toileting problem" quip.

We have similar as we live near a school. Ours is a private road, which just happens to be nearby, where we, the residents own it and have to pay for repairs and maintenance and therefore have preferential parking rights. But the adults picking up children from the school seem to think it is simply a car park specially built for them. We often come home and find it impossible to park in our own road, which we bloody well own and pay for. (Oh, yes, I am some van driver's wife, btw, as we are self-employed).

BTW when I came away from a meeting at DDs school where the head once again pleaded with us, I saw a fellow parent who had again parked where the head had asked us not to, was on the phone and had one light out - some people just don't care.

I think the OP should ask herself why they had a double dropped kerb instead of a single.

Just for the sake of it?

Thing is, it is not just you parking over her dropped kerb a single once only, for five minutes you personally can justify.

It's the numerous, lines of parents in a convoy who park across her dropped kerb twice a day for five minutes only that they can justify every single school day every single term every single year.

Sorry YA In The Wrong.

(And it's not for you to decide if she needs or deserves her dropped kerb. She has one. There is a highway code relating to it. )

You parked on a dropped kerb. YABU

Why can't you park further away? In a car park? Or walk?

I'm lucky, my ds doesn't melt if exposed to rain, nor do his legs fall off if he has to walk a couple of hundred yards.

You parked over someone's drive. She's fed up to the back teeth of lazy entitled parents abandoning their mummy wagons outside her house and obstructing her driveway

There IS a rude woman in this story OP, and it's you I'm afraid.

Yabu

It's a dropped kerb, you aren't allowed to park there. And you're probably the hundredth entitled school run twat she's had to explain that too so no wonder she was arsey

I can't believe we've actually got an entitled parking school run mum!!

Live on MN!

Why couldn't you park further away from the school?

How far away from school are you. Couldn't you walk?

Wow, calm down everyone, I think OP gets the picture. Everyone rushing to berate the OP over 3 pages is not totally necessary. I think by now she gets it.

Soubriquet

YABAT

Wow. You can't seriously think that you are in the right?

YABVU

You parked over her drive, partially blocking her access. It wasn't for you to decide that she only needed half of her driveway to be accessible. And she probably spoke to you like a 6 year old because to be frank it's really quite a simple concept and clearly you didn't understand it. And also it probably happens every single weekday and really fucks her off.

Yabu.
People like you are the reason I'm never going to live near any type of school or college ever again.
You might have been the third or forth person to park there that morning, no wonder she was pissed off.
Just leave enough time in the morning to find a space that doesn't inconvenience anyone else.