Parking at school pick up

[IncessantNameChanger]

I parked up today on my normal street for pick up. School is two miles away and I need to be home in time to be there for my sons taxi drop off. Hence, I don't often walk to pick up only dropping off.

I parked on a cul de sac. Not blocking any drive. I did not mount any kerb. I was half a foot from the kerb.

Yet the man that lived in the house, walked round my car twice with his mouth hanging open staring at my car and his kerb. I looked at him with a wtf? Expression but got no reaction. So I asked him. He went inside.

His house is 20 years old if that. The school was built in the sixties. Yet he was looking very stunned and shel shocked. A parent had parked legally and consideratly on a public road 5 metres from a school boundary line ( top of playing fluid is one house and one public footpath from his boundary line.

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? His jaw was on the floor. A very disproportionate expression for a taxed car to park on a public road. No parking restrictions, no dropped curb, no white line, no yellow line. My car was a good two foot back from the start of his 5 car wide drive. To hit my car he would had to drive over his Bush. A builders SUV was parked behind me. But with a man in who got no reaction at all.

I have spent the day sitting by my mums coffin and I would swop this man's shock and horror for my problems in a flash. Also why no use his voice? He was starring and starring at me and the car but could not verbalise wtf I was doing wrong.

He obviously thought you’re a bit of a dick for parking in front of his house, instead of in an appropriate car park.

I'm sorry for your loss, but I think your post is a bit disingenuous. It's pretty obvious that the man was sick of inconsiderate school parents parking in his road. He didn't/couldn't say anything to you because you'd parked in line with the law, but that's not to say that the next parent along will do the same.

Maybe he’s just sick of parents parking outside his house.

If you were legally parked then I wouldn’t dwell on it.

The first paragraph is confusing

He probably thought your “half a foot from the kerb” was too far from the kerb, and he probably also didn’t want you to park outside his house.

Had you hit a cat?

Sorry for your loss. I live opposite a school and sometimes the cars park considerately and legally. Other times they don't. I knew the school was there when I bought the house and my son even attended it! Sometimes the park situation just really winds you up.

Tough shit. OP can park there. The entitled arsehole doesn’t own the road outside his house.

The first paragraph is justifying why she was driving to school as inevitably people are going to have a go at her for not walking.

He's being an arse.

You did nothing wrong.

Marigold, I don't understand the taxi thing

For some reason when it comes to school drop offs and pick ups, lots of people aren’t reasonable or considerate.

Is there more than one kid involved?

I assume her son is at a different school, possibly one that meets his needs in some way, and is entitled to taxi transport.

Presumably she has another child who comes home in a taxi from a different school and she needs to drive to collect one child so she can be home quickly to receive the other when the taxi drops him off.

Sorry for your loss. You did nothing wrong. As long as not blocking his driveway you're fine. Who parks in an "appropriate car park" on the school run? Your park on nearby streets.

I assume she has one child she is picking up from school and another child going home by taxi from presumably a different school (likely to be SEN hence the need to be there).

My understanding is that she has to drive to pick up Child A from school so she can get home in time for Child B to be dropped off by taxi. But I might be wrong.

Then he's touched with madness then isn't he.

You weren't parked on or the side of a junction were you.

Some people just hate people parking outside their house, even if it is completely legal. They don't own it, but a lot of people believe it's "the done thing" to not (legally) park outside someone else's house. Which isn't always possible, of course.

I was half a foot from the kerb.

Probably this.

You don't really need to, she was clearly just explaining that she had to be home for a certain time.

I live near a school and I have to say it can get annoying the amount of cars and traffic we get. To the point my daughter who’s physically disabled cant get into her own house as they’ve used up all the street parking and sometimes parked on the grass outside my house.
im willing to hedge my bets that he’s annoyed with the parking issues around his property and just had enough. My advice would be to not park in a cul de sac as the residents have often specifically chosen that type of road to not have constant traffic. I get the time constraints you have with your child’s transport as my daughter has transport too but Try parking a little further away.

So he didn't actually say anything was wrong - he just looked privately annoyed and then went back in his house. I don't see that he's done anything really wrong there. People are allowed to be peeved about many things even if they know they'd be legally incorrect to say anything.

Also if you're six inches from the kerb that could be it as well.