aibu- Im feeling really upset as one of the mum's just yelled at me...?

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Outside my DS's school (where he's been attending for the last 4 years), parents always park on the double yellow lines at drop Off and pickup times. I'm no different. Yet today or of the blue, one mum who arrived after me but managed to find a parking bay, started giving it to me loudly, saying I was breaking the law by parking on the double yellows and was responsible for knocking children off the road and killing them. I let her go on, and held my tongue simply as I didn't think it appropriate to create a scene right outside the school in front of kids etc. She was letting it rip, in front of her son. I kept my cool ...But I've come home, thinking about this incident, and really quite upset.

YABU, OP...and the responses say that loud and clear. You have no doubt learnt your lesson- so good for you. However as you can see from this thread, the world is divided into self- righteous yellers and self- righteous sensible people who would rather have pointed out your faux pas in a more sophisticated manner. Unfortunately, the former appear to be a majority.
Shows you how online bullying works, even in the adult world.
Like I said, good you have learnt your lesson; which I'm sure you would have learnt anyway if someone had said the same thing nicely. So shouting at you (and calling you names) doesn't make those people look any better and takes some of the punch out of the actual message.

You seem to think you are ok with parking there as other people do. It's wrong and if I had my way your car would be towed. You are endangering lives.

Just because others do it doesn't mean you can! And yes, you deserved to be shouted st, you're endangering lives.

Unlucky, but it's your own fault.

Hopefully this will encourage you not to park on double yellows anymore, and while I don't condone her reacting angrily, it's good that people are being told that parking restrictions are for everyone not just some people...

There's a laybyboutside dd's school and parking is only permitted there outside of drop off/pick up hours. Despite there being an actual massive car park available to parents, some lazy bastards think it's ok to park in the lay by simply because it means they can drop their children off there and not have to walk them fifty yards from the car park. The parking ban during those hours is to stop all parents doing it (because they would given a chance and it would cause chaos), and to protect the children who walk to school because they enter at the lay by. It makes my blood boil, and it's always the same fucking parents, who somehow think they are more entitled than the rest.

Better that she yelled at you for big an idiot than you killed a child parking illegally.

One day I swear I'll snap at some of the parents at the dc's school.

Double yellow lines = "no parking at any time", not "no parking unless you're a busy parent of school age children".

People do this sort of thing in our village and it drives everybody bonkers.

Would you park there if the police were there with a camera car?

I'm so sick of parents parking on the zigzags
I might explode one day
Yabu

I wish all the selfish arsehole parkers at Corstorphine Primary School would read this thread

I wish the same at DDs school - although that is on yellow zigzags which I think is even worse...

Zigzags is worse, but double yellows bad enough to be yelled at

OP you said she 'started giving it to me loudly'. That's not a phrase I've heard before. Does that mean shouting? Or does it just mean she didn't 'have a quiet word' with you one-on-one?

What you did was dangerous and illegal. The laws apply to you as much as anyone else.

In a timely fashion for this thread, today at dd's school, a child was knocked off their bike by an arsehole parking on double yellows on a corner. This has been waiting to happen for years. It is so infuriating.

seriously I get the double yellowline thing, but shouting at someone for doing it, not nice and a total bad impression on all the kids involved. Dont feel bad, weve all done things like this and noone deserves to be treated like that. It achieves nothing.

Twice I've nearly been seriously injured by parents parking on double yellows / zigzags outside school. My car is low, most of the other parents at my kids schools have SUVs, which mean I can't see over them. After one parent refused to move off the yellows, I had to pull out blind and the giant SUV hurtling down the road had to mount the bank on the other side of the road (grateful there was a bank of grass there!) However I have also ranted at others - it's completely dangerous!

Don't park on the double yellows ... problem solved.

When you say everyone parks in the double yellow lines I expect you mean there is a small minority who persistently park there and everyone else parks elsewhere.
Why do you think the yellow lines are there? To be a bit annoying by making you have to park a bit further away or to try an stop a child being hit by a passing car?
You are parking illegally and endangering children. You deserve to be pulled up on it.

She is right, you are in the wrong and putting lives at risk.

It's always the massive great SUVs at our school too. I peer up from my little car and glare a lot!

Just stay off the fucking zigzags - its an immediate points offence - no defense.

They are there for a reason

So - your child is ok but you can endanger others who perhaps make their own way home and have to cross between cars and you don't expect to be told off? How old are you? I worked in a school with this problem - one mother got such a tirade from a warden that she came into the school to complain and when told she deserved it she said 'I had all this trouble at the other school too'. Makes you want to bang your head against the wall.

Hahaha. FFS, YABTU if you are offended by being told off for breaking the law. You wouldn't want to park like that outside my school coz I tell off parents every day and report them to the police. Have you got any concept how dangerous it is to park like that? Jesus H Christ.

I managed to get a parent to move today with a GLARE.

I was parked, legally. She parked in front of me, on single yellows (granted only two minutes before they aren't enforced as it was 8.58 so that wasn't the issue) OVER someone's driveway. To take her child to the nursery.

She parked nose to nose with me. I looked up and glared. She put the key back in the ignition and drove off down the road to park.

Managed the same in supermarket carpakr today as well, with the idiot who parked over the line, meaning I couldn't open my door. He got out, walked past the front of my car. I gave him a raised eyebrow. He got back into his car and reparked it straight.

I need my kids to react in this way to a look!

dont feel bad, weve all done things like this
Nope. Not once. It's illegal and completely selfish.