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.

OMG!!!! you can't do that, what if one of the parents who's car you leave it on really has lost a child!

The trolls have been putting in surprising amount of effort recently. First sandwiches, now trapped children. And the details...I'm quite impressed.

It was the 'we died, mummy' bit that really got me falling off my chair.

Like the mother it was addressed to wouldn't have noticed her children were dead?

bizarre

My sister would have written awful stuff like that when she was about 9, and trying to sound gravely serious and grown up.

not BU to be annoyed by these thoughtless selfish ones, we have similar issues at our school, but the poem is OTT, and you really can't know who is a visitor, for example, or as other posters say, if the driver is someone who has lost a child themselves in tragic circumstances

I was once parked outside the home of an elderly lady whose shopping I do,having dropped off her shopping and had a coffee I walked the 2 mins to school to get my kids and on return to the car had been blocked by an irrate resident who thinks its his right to have not 1 but 3 white vans parked outside his house.

He would not come out and move his van when i spoke to his wife at the door. he was sick of others from the school parking all over the cul de sac, wouold not listen to me say I was a visitor to the widow next door but one, and that I had to get dd to a hosp appt! only when another person who could not get out threatended him with the police did he move. HE was the one causing the obstruction. we were all parked safely and legally, he plonked a great big van in the middle of the entrance to the cul de sac, tosser

you can probably tell I am still mad about people like that now....

fllllight, I think even at 9 you'd be about that poem!

I was just thinking .. you know 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" .. isn't there a species that subjects to others to turgid poems as a form of punishment? What are they called again?

ahhh yes ... Vogons

maybe OP is a Vogon?

"Poetry, well written, can be a spiritually uplifting experience. Badly written, it can be an experience of buttock-clenching horror.

The third worst poetry in the universe is written by Vogons, and frequently used as a form of torture.

The absolute worst poetry was written by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings. It involved decaying swans. Luckily, it was destroyed during the demolition of the Earth.

Examples of good, if long, poetry can be heard on the planet of Golgafrincham, home to the great circling poets of Arium. "

Long time since I thought about Vogons and the like. But the buttock clenching certainly happened here when I read that "poem"

It's not going to win any awards that's for sure but it would make me think twice to be honest.Maybe because my Dad was a fireman and things like that do unfortunately happen.
Feel sorry for the O.P, a bit OTT but she has the childrens best interests in mind.

poem is cheesiest most barftastic thing i have read in along time.save the trees dont do it

i laughed out loud at the "We died Mummy" not the desired result but what a stoopid moralising piece of pish

I really like the adjective "barftastic"