Jobsworth lollipop man

[badheadday]

Due to moving house and not wanting to change my kids school we have to drive past a couple of other schools before we get to ours.

There is one particular lollipop man that seems to make a point of stopping as many cars as possible. He's constantly on the lookout for people walking towards the crossing and will stop cars before the pedestrians have even reached him. This includes parents that have already dropped their kids at school and clearly don't need any help to cross the road as they are fully grown competent adults. He has been known to cross a group of people, let one car go through and then stop the next car. Surely he needs to let at least a couple of cars through to help keep the traffic flowing?

Would I be unreasonable to complain about him?

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

@badheadday

I take everyone's point about the need for the lollipop man. I am NOT suggesting they get rid of the lollipop man just that he is creating more traffic problems and in turn, as previous posters have pointed out, increasing traffic pollution outside the school.

No, OP, it is you who is causing traffic pollution outside the school. You have chosen not to send your child to the local school but to drive them to one further away. Thus causing traffic and pollution. Meanwhile the lollipop man is there for children who are walking to school, not causing any traffic or pollution.

[Plumbear2]

This is not new. I was in primary school in the 70s and they used to stop cars for adults and parents then aswell. As the above poster said it is you causing the pollution, maybe move to the local school.