To put this under the windscreen wiper of cars parked where they should not near school!

[Jaynerae]

Infant school is at the top of a tiny road only four houses long. It comes of a road that is residential and very long becasue it is circular. The school has for years been sending out notes asking people dropping children off not to park in the tiny road. The school has an agreement with the pub at the top of the road that parents can park in their car park and walk down to school.

There is a problem - school has provided solution.

So why do some parents think that they have the right to put my child and every one else at risk becasue they couldn't be bothered to leave early enough to walk the five minutes rom the pub car park.

If cars are parked in this tiny road - fire engines and emergency services can not reach the school.

I have watched this go on for years - and today witnessed four cars in theis tiny road - two parked opposite each other and even the other two could not then get out! So no way would an emergency vehicle get through.

I think the message needs to driven home hard hitting - than polite but firm messages from school.

Would IBU to put the following print out, that I have made up on any offending cards?

I wish Head teavcher would send it to parents but I bet she wouldn't in case children saw it.
I?m sorry Mummy.

Sorry that they didn?t care enough about me to take note of the warnings.
Sorry that they didn?t care enough about their own children to listen.
Sorry that they didn?t think that there would ever be a real danger.

I?m sorry Mummy

That you can?t hear me talk to you anymore
That you can?t feel my arms wrapped around you anymore
That you can?t feel my wet kiss on your cheeks

Why Mummy?

Didn?t they listen?
Didn?t they read?
Didn?t they care?

They Tried Mummy.

The firemen tried to get us out Mummy
They heard us screaming Mummy
They heard us calling for you Mummy

But they couldn?t

They couldn?t reach us Mummy
They couldn?t help us Mummy
They wanted to so badly Mummy

Do you know why they couldn?t Mummy

Because there were people who parked where they shouldn?t have Mummy
The fire engine couldn?t get passed Mummy
The cars were in the way Mummy

We died Mummy.

it so is, why can't people just walk from home. lazy feckers.

Hecate - I can see how yours is a special situation, but what do you do on other occasions? Wouldn't it be safer to have someone bring them to you? I'm assuming your DC with autism has a LSA, couldn't that be in his statement?

oh I know, but now I feel guilty and the need to explain myself on a thread that's Not About Me to a group of people who don't know me from adam and wouldn't give a shit anyway

Talk about your huge ego/paranoia/need for approval

Other occasions? There are none. I only do school pick up. They are brought/watched to the gate, but I can't bring myself to ask the lsa to walk them up the road to the car, too humiliating.

I just know how much I struggle and how much I try to hide it and avoid situations where I'll be exposed, so I do tend to think about other people and maybe they have hidden problems too. I realise they probably don't. But you never know.

ooh, cars on pavements pisses me off too. Why do it? Don't want to block the road, but it's ok to block pedestrians

I liked the little ditty that was in our place on holiday this year!

'We have children aplenty
But none to spare
So when you're driving and parking
Please take care'

I think the OP's poem is rather odd - so much so that I do wonder whether it is a wind up

hectate - don't the scohol allow you to park in their car park? I've noticed mums of SEN chilren are allowed to park in the staff carpark at our school.

How about a little sympathy for the drink-drivers here?

If the parking problems are only at pick up and drop off, as you intimate, then surely if the school was on fire, the parents would have moved their cars. I can see the headlines now:
"School children burnt to death. Parents too busy gossiping to notice the smoke and the fire engines, so didn't move the 4 cars that were vaguely in the way"

The poem was laughably bad. If you are going to put things under windscreens, at least make them readable.

We live in a nice narrow cul-de-sac near a school. Recently the council got fed up with parents blocking the roads near the school. So they got their yellow paint out, double lines a-plenty and handed out parking tickets like confetti.

It worked, the parents don't park there anymore!!

No, the lazy fekkers block me and half the neighbours in every morning.

So presumably if my street is the one in the op, I'd get that farking poem stuck under my windscreen cos I'd be on the little street at the time in question?

In which case it wouldn't be little children dying in a fire it would be the poet dying in a flibberty furious frenzy.

That'll teach you to live in a 'nice' area, flibberty!!!

That is a bit over emotional, a simple note saying "Next time your car is parked here it may get damaged", might stop them.
You don't have to do anything drastic, but might make them think.
I'm sure in a REAL emergency the fire brigade would barrell through any parked cars
especially involving a school!
Must have taken you ages to print them out!

That's great, Ripeberry, I particularly like the unspecified origin of the damage that might, just might be caused. Ever so slightly threatening.

As for the fire brigade barrelling through, I don't think that would be the case, what if there were children inside the parked cars?

Oh dear, what a terrible poem. I think you need to deal with more effective ways to deal with this problem OP, like contacting your local council about the possibility of parking restrictions. Most people are not going to read something that is stuck under the wipers unless it is obviously a parking ticket.

Ripeberry it almost happened in the street where I lived that had a school at the end of it, the fire engine came down the road and took off all the wing mirrors of those parked on the wrong side of the road. Job done as no one really parks there anymore!

Children inside the parked cars? Presumably abandoned and locked in the car by their parents wathcing their siblings burn to death in school?

As far as I'm aware, most scohols have excellent eveacuation prcedures to ensure children are not burned alive in schools.

Does this qualify for Mumsnet Classics?

Suzy Wong is surely a legend.

Yes, troll or not, definitely a classic.

No, not a troll, Jaynerae has posted losts of dullish posts.

lynette - no, they are all locked up now BECAUSE of my children. Gates don't open until school ends.

Rather good of them really, so feel unable to ask them to open for me.

I feel a bit sorry for OP

Yes it was a very bad poem/idea, but surely we should be kind and not talk about her like she is a nutter - she is probably reading this and feeling dreadful.

JayneRae - sorry I was rude in my earlier post. Your poem did make me laugh but I can see why you would be annoyed about the parking.

Just maybe find another way to address it iyswim.