can anyone who parks on double yellow lines in front of their school please explain....

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... why they think they have a God given right to do this?

I am new to the dropping off at school thing and after one month I felt like a rant.

why oh why do you do it?

well, I've only ever once driven to a school when dd's taxi broke down last week. My other kids were at a school 1.5 miles away and we walked. Didn't own a car. Now they are in secondary they catch a bus.

My dd was not offered a place at any local school and for a while it looked as if we would have to travel 2.5 miles to another part of borough to allocated school there. Our ONLY choice would have been to drive (no direct public transport) and, as I have a 2yo and a 6mth old, I would have had to have parked outside the school each day in order to drop her off and pick her up - it is all residents' parking, no meters for non-residents. We were lucky that eventually we were offered a place at a school that is within walking distance but I am sure in London and elsewhere there must be many people who are forced to drive and who have to park where they can in order to get their children in and out of school on time. It's just not the case here that there are lots of alternatives and that people are necessarily being selfish and/or lazy.

in cities though, there's a primary school every 2 miles or less. Why would anyone need to drive?
Even in toddly Malvern we didn't get into the school 30 yards away so walked 1.5 miles to the next one.

and it might make lurkers stop parking like slefish twunts.
Will be fitting switchblades to dd's wheelchair for the pavement parkers....

call the police but you are right, you can't change selfish people. They will only change when things affect them adversely - high petrol prices to cut down driving, police handing out tickets over speeding/parking/using mobile phone.
I want a notice on my car that says 'this isn't my car, i don't care if it gets broke ramming you out of my disabled bay...'

i have to drive my kids to school got no choice but theres people who live like 2 min walk away and they still drive come on they have to show off there posh bms or fourwheel drives !! i'm buying a helicopter so i can drop my kids off !!that'll show em !!

how is having the radio on loud the same as parking on yellow zig zags???

one is against the law and the other isnt for a start

needmorecoffee - my point was that although we have five schools within walking distance, we didn't get in to any of them so driving would have been the only alternative. To a lesser extent there are people who start their children at a local school and then move further away and prefer to keep them at the original school and so also need to drive. Walking is the ideal but not always an option. Not everyone who drive is a selfish polluter.

Do you know what? I do think I'm better than people who deliberately break the law. I also think I'm worse than a variety of other people though.

oh you are an a&e nurse, makes you qualified to make judgements then
maybe you are in the wrong job?

I don't think it's a question of being ignorant or idle, it's about being SELFISH. People who do this do not give a flying f**k about anyone else, or anyone else's kids. As long as their little darlings are safe, then who cares?

DP was the victim of a road rage attack outside our school (he was cycling). Not only was he thumped by a complete thug (who wasn't a parent) but one of the fat, lazy, selfish fathers strolled up to DP's attacker and said, "He's got an attitude problem mate - he had a go at me the other day." DP had had a go at him - for parking on the yellow zig zags, when there are enomrous signs telling you not to.

I really do think that people live in a little bubble and don't see/care about anyone but themselves. I blame Margaret Thatcher.

are you my mother deepinlaundry?