to think that it is rain. Just rain. It is not a torrent of burning hot tar. You do not have to block the road and park 6 inches from the school gate. Your child will not die of getting a bit damp...

[pagwatch]

...and that parking across my fucking drive and blocking my son from getting into his special school transport is bloody inconsiderate.
Buy an umbrella. Your child will appreciate the excercise.

You lazy rude selfish cow.....

grrr

i hate the rain. kids love it. welly boots, raincoats and if i'm feeling nice they can have an umbrella as well lol.

omg sorry oops
meant
YANBU
SORRY

lo9l 2shoes

YABU, they might melt!

Obv YANBU.

i have reported myself
and will now go and do housework as my punishment

yanbu. Its only rain. Many people are just sissies. Kids do not melt!

You tell 'em Pag.

arf at 2shoes!

Well there are these incredible new inventions called coats. I believe that, if correctly used, they can keep the rain off children and parents alike - allowing them to walk some distance when precipitation is occurring.

The only time I've parked across someone's drive, it was a friend's drive, and I checked it was OK, then we walked to school together to collect our dc's.

Also, if it's raining, it is perfectly possible to set off a little earlier in the car (if you do have to drive) so you have time to find somewhere to park.

YANBU at all.

indeed - arf at 2shoes .

Clean woman clean !

Ooh I want to know what 2shoes said. It's gorn! (Must've been a good one!)

Anyway YANBU. Parking over driveways is infuriating. Some parents want to drive right up to their dc's desk in the mornings, I think

Oh yes - rain. That means that the same parent who always does this will be parked right across the school gate, on the zigzag lines so that we all have to manouvre round his car.

And the usual group of mummies will be huddled together, nattering and making their social arrangements right in the school gateway so that no-one else can get in or out to collect their child, but they will have umbrellas as well today making it even more difficult to squeeze past them without getting spokes in your face.

Wouldn't have been even so annoyed had I not just got home from walking my DD to her school!
Dimwit is blocking my drive. I ask her to move as DS2 transport is due and she say "I am dropping off coz its rainning" as if that justifies it.

grrrr...
So double yellow lines, no parking signs and blocking drive rules are all suspended in the event of fire flood terrosrist attack and ...a bit of rain.

Stupid mare. If she does it again I am going to smear a big dog pooh on her windscreen.

Take reg no - phone local authority and or police and report her.

I agree.

I often wonder if people think they and their DC will melt in the rain like candyfloss

But I will disentegrate I'm made of paper!!!

well obviously many of today's DC will all melt instantly - they have probably never been exposed to rain! or perhaps they would get their nintendo DS's wet and then cry?

YANBU at all - it never ceases to amaze me that people can't cope with even a small smattering (not today, I grant you) of rain - the other day a woman was walking down the road with a socking great umbrella up, and it was barely even spitting! Grrr.

YANBU - I live very close to the school (next door) and whilst my drive doesn't get blocked there are people parking all over the double yellows here too, blocking the crossing points and the entrance to our cul-de-sac. Idiots.

Skin is water proof - if it weren't I would be a huge ball of water today, the amount I have been rained on.

Dh is very precious about the rain. I think he's too used to getting into his nice cosy car - whereas I was brought up without any transport apart from feet, and managed to get to adulthood without disintegrating. It really annoys me, like the way everything stops when there's an inch of snow.

Actually, whilst we are having a moan (well, I am anyway) I hate people with huge great golfing umbrella that block footpaths as effectively as the cars block the roads.

Idiots (again) - you mark my words, they won't be happy until they have somebody's eye out.

Imade dh cycle to work today. He only does 2 hours a week and looked at the rain and said he would skip it. So I called him a big sissy. Its only rain and its only 5 miles which is 25 mins tops.
Thus shamed off he went. And you know, he's back and he hasn't melted

YANBU.

This morning we had to put up with cars driving too fast down the water logged road and soaking us on the bloody pavement.

Me and the dc's were dressed for a monsoon though so we were fine And not an umbrella in sight.

maybe their kids are made of sugar and will melt [shrugs]

There is a big campaign in my local paper about parents parking illigally to drop their kids off. They have been doing photographs in the paper, it's quite shocking seeing some of the places these lazy people park to get that bit nearer to the school!