Entitled parents (parking)

[SexyBoris]

My dentist has a small car park. Unfortunately it’s across a main road from a secondary school. I had an emergency appointment at 2:50pm (infected wisdom tooth) on Tuesday. Storm Barra was doing its worst …. The car park was full - vast majority of the cars had people sat in them with the engines running. I had to drive around and park near the local shops and walk around with the cold rain and wind battering my already agonising mouth.
Anyway, I got there just in time. They let me in and as I was sat waiting I saw the receptionist panicking running to the door saying “mrs Thompson is walking up, get her inside! She’s in her 90s!”. Elderly woman comes in struggling to breathe, said they couldn’t get parked and had had to walk from the shops. Receptionist said “that’s the bloody parents from XXX school using our car park!!”

WIBU to email the school and tell them that the parents selfish and inconsiderate parking is not on and they should do something about it??

Don’t see what the school can do about it

Agree it’s not on though

Apart from asking the parents not to park there, what can they really do?

You shouldn't, the dentist should.

The dentists really needs to do something. You can email the school who'll email the parents who'll ignore it and carry on as they are. They need to start charging everyone except patients.

Selfish parking mentioned in newsletters, on twitter, in posters it doesn't make a difference. Doesn't mean you shouldn't complain though.

Dentist should consider a barrier and token system for car park not that they should have to either.

YANBU but the school have no control over this. I live right by a primary school and the parking problem is perennial. Some parents are utter arseholes.

Same at my GP surgery which is adjacent to a nursery - and the local community pool. The pool has free parking but means an extra 20 metres of walking.... The number of wankers that park in the GP car park is unreal. Nightmare for appointments when you're really unwell.

My kids school is really proactive about this and will send out general messages, flag "incidents" that day, and generally create as much pressure as possible to ensure they are being a good neighbour. People will still be wankers though so the dentist needs to take action

I live near a school and selfish, entitled parents are the norm. Local residents do not feature in their thinking at all - sole aim is to get as close to school as humanly possible as God forbid their precious pickle has to ...walk!

Anyway, you can email and let school know. You will get sympathetic noises from the Head/Office. They will send out an email. Parents will ignore the email or think it doesn't apply to them.

Yes email and email the dentist and complain.
If needs be if it's that bad they can get a company to put cameras up and have to register their reg number at the dentist or face a fine.

There is a swimming pool opposite the school and they put traffic cones out along the entrances morning and afternoon and big boards saying “no parking patrons only”. Seems to work. The receptionist keeps an eye out for customers as they seem to wait next to the cones and she comes and checks they are swimming then tells them to come through. May be worth suggesting to the dentist?

It isn't the school's fault. The Head teacher can't magic up another 40 parking spaces from nowhere.

What do you expect her to do? Even if she asks the parents not to park there, they still will.

The dentist needs to sort some kind of parking management.

I don't think it would harm to complain to the school, but it's the dentist to blame for not protecting their parking by going out and moving them on every time a parent parks.

If I was the dentist, I’d put a barrier across. Doesn’t have to be expensive, a chippy near me put a locked chain across their car park (they were next to a school) to stop parents parking there.

Agree that the dentists need to address this
A key coded barrier would be good that they give with your appointment changed daily
Complete pain in the arse though

A barrier with a speaker where the receptionist can open it after confirming the appointment is one thing that would solve the problem.

Or a buzzer system to lift the barrier

Yes, email them. The more complaints the better. It at least may make parents think twice if they get a reminder to not be selfish.

Strange that the dentist haven't put a clamping threat up though

I live near a posh private secondary school, I am sick to the back of my teeth of all the F'in 4x4s all the posh sods taking darling Jemima and Tarquin to their Cello lessons, when they block the roads I just sit in my car and beep the horn until they move and possibly use choice language . They probably consider me a Yokel but I don't care, everyone's concerned about global warming but not these posh sods getting their precious cargo to school in their gas guzzlers.
It get's my goat when all the mums on here chirp in 'But you simply must get a landrover'

Receptionist could go out and ask what time their appointment is when they say they don't have one then they get asked to move.

Dentist needs to install a barrier with a keycode or token system.

I used to live very close to a primary school very popular with entitled mummies and daddies. The school regularly sent our messages about not parking in the narrow cul de sac leading up to it, but there were always a few who ignored it.

The dentist could have a barrier system installed- you pull up to barrier, press button, tell receptionist your name and appointment time, she checks and lets you in, or not. Quite an expense though for dentist.

Do they have notices up saying it is private parking only- belongs to dental surgery, not fir use by parents collecting or dropping off school children?

The dentist should have a camera up and get an agency to fine people who park with other an appointment. Patients would just have write down their reg numbers when they check in.

Have they only just realised then??