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...

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...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.....

same here but poeple still do it.

some examples here

there are a lot of these dinwits our there, who have melting dc's
ine blocked access to my van once. so I couldn't load dd on the ramp. just so her child didn't have to wak in the rain.
I was not polite

Actually I was really cross - especially at the shrugging 'so what' attitude so I called the school.
The head was charming and said she will put yet another notice in the newsletter. But she also suggested I take numberplates and give them to her if I don't have time to call the police/council myself.
Sounds as if I was not the only complaint this am .
She added that her primary concern is how dangerous this parking is for the children walking to school as we are a town centre location on a busy junction....

I did use the car today as it was so wet, we have a half hour walk so most of the rain soaks through most layers in that time-
I didn't park across anyone's driveway or block anyone's way and DD2 and I got wet doing the two drop offs from where we parked the car - you see it can be done

BTW DD2 and I now sat in cups as have completely melted into mush !!

I walked DD2&3 to school this morning (10 min walk). But DD1 who normally walks with her friends was DRIVEN the 5min walk to her school, because her friend's mum apparently believes they are made of sugar. I nearly made DD1 refuse the lift on principle but decided that was too cruel...

Ok, be warned, here comes ultimate boast!

I walked both of mine the half mile walk to school today, through muddy puddles on the rainsoaked footpath, carrying a very heavy African Land Snail that we had been caring for at the weekend.

I could have used the car. But I didn't, because that would have been lazy and as someone else said, it's only rain. So we all got a little muddy and wet, it didn't kill us, the Snail arrived safely, my arms were aching but it'll do me good.

And I fully intend to walk back to school in an hour to pick them up again.

YANBU

And did laugh this morning when i saw a neigbour drive her son to school this morning.

We live less then a 5 min walk from school, so the time she drove found somewhere to park we still got there before her. And the rain was coming down harder so her son got just as wet as he would have done if they had walked.

I am glad the school are taking you complant seriously.

A sort of associated question:

At what age do boys, left to decide for themselves, get enough sense to take a coat to school in bad weather?? I have three boys, 11, 13 and 15. All have waterproof coats, suitable for cycling in (as they cycle to school) - but will they wear them?? Will they buffalo!!!

At the moment I am working on the principle that eventually they will realise that wearing a coat to school in bad weather will mean that they arrive at school warm and dry - and that this is a good thing. They will realise at the same time that cycling to school without a coat in the rain means that you arrive at school wet - and this ISN'T a good thing.

But how long will I have to wait for this particular penny to drop?

I'm not holding my breath.... = gone-blue-from-holding-breath-so-long emoticon.

My bug bear which is why I'm on the school transport council after someone reversed into another person's drive whilst I was walking on the pavement in front of the drive, with my 4 year old (at that time).

Saw my best mate the other night who's vice chair of her school's PTA and saw one family park IN someone else's DRIVE to get their kid to school.

people parking on my drive to drop at the same school is the reason I have my gates shut during school hours now. I have had several occasions where I have gone to the front door to be greeted by someone unloadingtheir kids to walk across the road.

When asked "what the fuck are you doing can I help you" they just gawp at me and errr umm.

I am going to get gun turrets.

yanbu how selfish to block you in
i would probably smash up that car, nt saying thats good advice though.

sunnygirl. ds1 aged 15 has finally started wearing a coat having shivered through various winters and got soaked numrous times. ds2 13 still doesn't. So he is soaked by the time he reaches school.
Tougehns them up I reckon. They aren't sissies about no heating in this house

Foxytocin you took the words right out of my mouth lol

I get lots of aghast looks when i walk the DCs to preschool in the rain...its only rain FGS

OP YANBU

I walked to my mates this afternoon in the pissing rain.

I got a bit wet

I did not die

My children did not die

We are all still person-shaped - we did not melt

I saw someone from the next street from mine pick her kids up from school in the car.

The school is on my road.

Lazy cow.

the ridiculous thing, imho, is that you stay drier if you step out of your front door, suitably attired and equipped, and walk to your destination than if you fanny about getting in and out of a car.

The hatwoman speaks the truth

It's more faff IMHO as well.

I have 2 littlies. DS2 is in his buggy and DS1 walks. It's easier then loading/unloading them into the farking car while rain runs off my back and into my troosers

When I was on maternity leave, I witnessed someone park on my neighbour's drive and walk off to collect their child.

Now my DS are at school, I cannot believe how badly some of these dimwits park just to be inches away from the school. Fortunately, the parking wardens are very good and a number of cars are being ticketed.

I can't believe that someone would park on someone else's drive

Well, actually, I can believe it.

I remember one morning walking to the shop before I had DS1. There was an ambulance trying to get through ther mass of poorly parked cars by the school gates on my road (4 cars on the zig-zags ) and there were 2 women in cars nattering from the drivers seat and blocking the road. The ambulance was stuck, so I went over to one of the women blocking the road and said "Look, there is an ambulance there, I think you need to move over there" pointing to the side of the road. I was told to fuck off and was called a do-gooder. She also pointed to my pregnant belly and said "Wait till you have yo8ur kid - you'll want to get as close to the school as possible then, I'll bet" she also said "I'm fed up with you council lot shouting at us over how we park on the road" I was very taken aback that someone could be so rude. I was also shocked tha5 she was refusing to move to let the ambulance through. Fucking silly bint.

I vowed never to send my kid to that school after that day. She put me off.

She did move while spouting her torrent of abuse at me, so I suppose that's something.

I still see her picking her son up now. I always turn my nose up her