To want to leave my house with a pushchair at school run time?????

[FarcicalAlienQueen]

OK so maybe it's my own fault for living next door to the school. And admittedly the cars that park on our side on the street do have to park up on the pavement slightly (otherwise no-one could drive up/down the road).

However, it's perfectly possible to park slightly up on the pavement, and leave enough space for me to be able to exit my front gate with a pushchair.

Just as well I didn't need to take the DS's out anywhere this afternoon straight after picking DS1 up - and therefore had just put DS3 down for a nap and dashed next door - I would quite literally have NOT been able to get out - a car parked just centimeters from my gate.

When I got back sent DS1 back inside and waited to speak to the owner of the car. When I pointed out that there was no room to get a pushchair through she gave me a whole load of crap that "all the other cars on this side are parked on the pavement".......well yes they were - but 95% of them had left enough space to get a slightly larger than average pushchair past (I have an Hauck Infinity and could have got past the cars with it).

She muttered something about "where else was she supposed to park" (wanted to tell her where she was currently parked would do - just with more of the car on the road than the pavement but kept my mouth shut), got in the car and drove off without so much as a sorry

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We've lived here for nearly 3 1/2yrs now and it's NEVER been this bad for parents parking so inconsiderately.

Agree VictorianSqualor. What I used to find particularly sad when my kids were at Primary school were the mothers who would arrive a good 20 minutes before the end of school so that they could bag pole position (ie the yellow no parking lines directly outside the school gates) and then sit there in their chelsea tractors reading a magazine while waiting. Jesus...apart from the safety issues, talk about having no life.

Print out lots of sheets saying, ' Is 300yards too far to walk? FAT ARSE!'
If somebody has a real need to park near because of disability the will have a disabled badge.

Take the number plate and complain to the school, ask them to get the local community liaison officer involved and ask for them to visit during schol times.They will want to keep their local residents happy. dds school have done this a few times when locals have complained and a few impromtu visits from the police usually sorts out the problem.

It drives me mad when people park on the pavement. I once had to walk into a very busy road with dd in a push chair when some inconsiderate cow parked her bloody 4x4 on the pavement. Gave me a mouthful of abuse when I dared to complain too!