To think you are only worth talking to on the school run if you drive a 4x4 & are minted...

[morphyrichards99]

The dc have been in school just over a year now. Their school is a state school in an affluent part of the city. The parents who live close enough to walk insist on driving their chelsea tractors to the gates (obviously to show off), parents who used to drive ordinary cars are upgrading to 4x4s. Quite a large percentage of the parents only acknowlege you if you are thin, wearing the right clothes (designer sportswear& full face of make up seems to be the uniform at the moment!) playdates are arranged on who the parents think are affluent & worth networking with not on who the kids are friends with... Some of my observations,however there are plenty of normal parents too. Even though there are some who appear to have jumped on the bandwagon & are trying to keep up with the joneses...

What’s with all the 4x4 hate atm??

do the mums actually do Pilates and workouts and stuff....or do they just wear the gear I wonder? Cos I'm guilty of that one! 😬

YouCantGetHereFromThere

Some of you don’t get this. Just because your OH drives an suv - or 4x4 which is a less American term - does not mean you have to worry. Lol But do carry in with the old stealth boasting!

Sorry you totally missed the point grin

Yeah yeah...

Rosewhitetips *

“Fluid reader”
“Crowd cuckoo land”

(Collecting for another thread... but thank you for your concern, pp!)

I'm chortling at the idea that having an SUV is something to stealth boast about.

Where I live, you boast about your brand new full-size, leather interior pick-up truck. SUV? Meh.

Hey...I love my Audi! (Estate, relatively old, the only car we run, and paid for).

Am I the only one who thought Spam Valley was where the rich oligarchs make their money?

my son and i have done a whole thesis (spoken) on car makes and their drivers. This is because we are really skint and often have to hitch to the local town.
will never stop -
Audi, - nobody who drives an Audi will pick up a hitchhiker, ever
Mercedes,
4x4s,
farmers' vehicles (no space only going down the road)

Unlikely to stop

BMW (altho the BMW driver is unpredictable)
Works vans

I will let you know when we have our final findings, but this is where we are at.

Is it SW London OP?

nobody who drives an Audi will pick up a hitchhiker

I don’t know anyone in any type of car that picks up hitch hikers in the U.K.

It’s not considered safe.

I love my 4x4 and wearing leisure wear on the school run. It is as comfy as pyjamas... I even have blacked out windows on my car so no one can see I haven’t done my make up or me slurping my coffee.

" I don’t know anyone in any type of car that picks up hitch hikers in the U.K. "

they do, i hitched to town this very morning...:)
it was a VW.

morphyrichards - your mistake is to think there is such a thing as a "normal parent." Clearly you have identified a specific group of parents with whom you have nothing in common. Why you feel the need to dress up for them on the school run, I'm not sure, though . In my experience, all sorts of types of parents, from all walks of life, engage in social engineering for their kids, particularly at primary level. It's extremely tiresome and imo unhealthy, but does not seem to be limited to anorexic parents who drive 4x4s. Also, sorry, but more fool you if you think all these people you don't like are actually wealthy, or snubbing you for your lack of wealth!

I’m pleased you got where you were going safely Dull

But if I don’t stop to pick you up it’s not because I think my car is too nice to allow the hoi pilloi into it or because I’m not a nice person.

It’s just because I don’t think picking up strangers is the greatest idea (for either party).

it's fine i know it's because you drive an Audi...:)

Seriously i only do it round here (rural West Wales) not in any other part of the country.

Are you alright RoseTipsLips

TBF that’s a pretty standard post from rose. Don’t expect much sense from her.

What a ridiculous thread! People are all different, and usually like-minded people are friends. Shocker!

.....you could murder the Joneses OP, then there's no-one to keep up with! Seriously, other than just EXISTING how exactly have these yummy mummies offended you?

Dull . No but I can buy one next time if it will help keep your survey straight?

my son and i have done a whole thesis (spoken) on car makes and their drivers. This is because we are really skint and often have to hitch to the local town.

This made me smile. I went to a university on top of a big hill, and every morning there was a queue of us at the bottom with our thumbs stuck out hoping for a lift. I'd say pretty much every type of car stopped for us but now I'm wishing we'd paid a bit more attention :-)