Tw@ts that stop in the middle of the road...

[SamanthaCaine]

....to let their umpteen kids out for school when there's a specific drop off point right there!

Ok so you stop. No hazards or anything to suggest what you're doing. One gets out, two, then three. Close the door. Open the fucking door for a chin wag. Shut the door, walk off and then walk fucking back as you've forgotten some shit.

Don't you know that getting to work 25 seconds quicker makes all the fucking difference.

Grrr <Roy Kent>

AIBU?

YAsoooooooooNBU

This is why we have horns…

YANBU at all.

I live less than 100m from the school. There's a junction to cross between us and the school, which is always rammed with people parked on both sides- on the corner, at the bus stop etc, in their massive SUVs with the engines running....crossing the road with the DCs is pretty hazardous, as you can imagine. Plus the middle of the road twats.

Just round the corner from my house is an empty road. Plenty of parking. They literally can't be bothered to park safely there and walk 100m 😡

This doesn't matter if you don't have a car. Now twatty car drivers bother me a lot less often than when I was a driver.

It never ceases to amaze me how they drive past legal parking spaces to pull up onto the kerb on a corner to save the kid walking a few yards but are quite happy to risk other little darlings getting run over when they mount the kerb on a narrow pavement full of kids, and their own kid because their parking prevents their kid from seeing and being seen as they cross the road.

I drive my kids as they are autistic but park further up the road so they can walk in without needing to cross. I'm well chuffed that one has finally learned to cross a road. (Several years after the youngest did) but they still have to negotiate the drop off on pavement twats

I work in a college. The number of parents who pull into the staff car park to drop their 16-18 year old off, parking in front of empty spaces so you can’t pull in, and spend AGES having a massive long chat with them is infuriating. The road into the car park is also a steep slope so if they’re particularly oblivious you end up sweating holding your car idling on this ramp as well.

Pull in, door open, kid jumps out - that’s all you need to do. Or drop off in the LARGE, EMPTY student car park 200m away.

The roads round us are all school streets, but our road isn’t. So now we get all the parents from the 3 or 4 nearby schools stopping in the middle of the only road you can actually sodding drive down.

I don’t drive, but it still pisses me off.

I've often wondered why schools now don't have specific drop off points when being built.
It's the same round here they. Empty car park vs everyone trying to get into one tiny section.
Don't get me started on the ones who are there to pick up an HOUR before the kids come out of school!

They bother pedestrians near our school as the knobheads can't understand the concept that it doesn't matter whether you block the road up or hang back, you're not getting out of the road end any quicker, and therefore it's better to hang back and leave room for oncoming traffic.

If you hang back to let oncoming traffic have space, the knobheads will decide that you're either joining in the dodgy parking melée or holding them up and overtake to jam the road up anyway.

Therefore with the road jammed up by a string of traffic, the oncoming vehicles often drive along the pavement tailing the pedestrians.

I now wait 5 minutes up the road, legally parked and wait for the crazy to pass and avoid it.
I drive because my autistic child is already overloaded and has limited mental reserves left to deal with the uncertainties of the bus, crowding and a mile solo walk through "friendly" dog central.

Hahahaha DH queried why the school streets needed to start at 2:45 when the schools finish between 3:15 and 3:30.

He has no idea…

Oh I hear you! Driving to work the other day and car randomly stops in the middle of the road, I wondered what what happening then door opens, 1 person gets out then has to put the seat forward so the school child could get out of the back of the car, then seat back and they got back in. I mean if you are going to do that why not let the school child sit in the front?

The system we had in the US was so well organized for getting children in and out of school, I wish it was like that here.

Parking on one side of the road was stopped during school drop off and pick up times, our cars lined up there, we pulled up to the front of the school and the children got out. Older children in high viz vests opened car doors, helped younger children out with their bags, and closed the doors again. There was a lady in a police uniform (probably similar to a lollypop lady here) who controlled traffic to let five or six cars out of the school so the next five or six could pull in.

At pick up all the children going home by car were collected in the lunchroom. We had to have a sign with the names of the children we were picking up on it in the car windscreen. We lined up as in the morning. When we were about 7 cars from the front of the line a teacher read off the names into a radio or phone to a teacher in the lunchroom. By the time we got to the head of the line our children would be waiting. If they weren't there was a separate area where we had to park and wait for them.

There was none of this stupidity, apart from one fistfight, I'm not sure what that was about.

Our primary is not too bad in the grand scheme of things and nothing on our secondary described above, but we still have enough parents that ignore two ample free carparks within 100-150m and park along the road, even pulling up by the railings so the the child has to walk in the road around them. They often obstruct the traffic calming by the school.

It's a very local catchment so there are fairly few beyond a 10-15 min walk, so the ones parked up in the road 45+ mins before the end of the day do mystify me, because most of them do have time to get the car home and walk back with time to spare- it's clearly not about being in the nick of time in those cases.

YABU as you forgot to mention the cello, lacrosse racquet and rugby kit in enormous holdall that need to be pulled out of the boot.

YANBU it drives me crazy! It's unbelievably lazy, entitled and dangerous.

My DCs school has a car park opposite with plenty of space but so many park on the double yellows and zig zag lines, block junctions, stop in the middle of the road and park in the entrance to the car park so you can't get in or out while the actual car park sits almost empty. It's maybe 15 more steps.

There's also a shop opposite that has deliveries right at drop off time with a big lorry parked on double yellows blocking the view from the car park entrance and for anyone crossing the road. It's an extreme sport just getting to school!

Last week I watched a twatty dad speed down the road, pull into the staff car park without slowing down or looking all while on his phone. Near miss for a few dc near the crossing as he mounted the pavement.

Can never get excited about minor delays really because I realise I'm not that important.

Of course it matters if you don't have a car as it makes it more dangerous for pedestrians to cross.

My particular bugbear at the moment are twats who see a long queue for a motorway junction, decide to carry on till the actual junction, then stop/crawl in the middle lane with a blinker on, hoping to find a gap or be let in.

I have escaped serious accident v narrowly over the last few months at the M25/A3 roadworks.

This isn't just to do with parents dropping children at school. The general standard of driving has dropped massively over the last ten years or more. Those same people who feel entitled enough to block you while they do what they want will be the first ones to complain, beep, shout abuse if you were to do it.

It is a damning indictment of today's society.

Haha. Sadly it was just a Fiesta so no chance.

I know we should be more tolerant but bloody hell it's infuriating when you can see an empty drop off point and people would rather hold everyone up than use it.

Oh I'm not important in the least bit. On a scale of 1-10 I'm less than zero and happily so.

I'll happily wait for ducks to cross the road, horses, pedestrians, tractors, cyclists and even old people. Not a problem, but selfish inconsiderate people bring out the Roy Kent in me.

Yeah funny how it works isn't it. In cars for whatever reason nothing really bothers me except stupid dangerous things. Put me on a busy pavement though and I'm almost instantly seething at the random stoppers, the people walking 6 wide talking etc. so I do know just what you're talking about really