to NOT expect parents to double/triple park on the school run!!!!!!!!!........

[talie101]

.... just because they are too lazy to find a proper parking space and even if there is a space a few yards away... it's quicker to stop near or even ON!!! the pedestrian crossing to let your kids out of the car!!! Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!

You are dangerously blocking the road, and delaying me taking my children to the school further down the road!!!!!

...and as for those parents who are too lazy to walk a little further to take their children across the pedestrian crossing safely.... instead of walking or pushing your kids over the road between parked cars!!!! IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY!!!!!!

Mine aren't at school yet so I'm yet to experience the joys of the school run, but this would seriously piss me off annoy me too.

I am clearly BU to expect parents to NOT park on the chevrons outside the school entrance which is there for the benefit of OUR children - when there are spaces just down the road. FGS its almost always parents of the older children too - never ever any of the ones with a small child to have to take in too....

Some people are so lazy it really beggars belief. We have the same problem at our school. Apparently it is too difficult to park 100 yards from the school and walk.

I inwardly cheer when I see traffic wardens sniffing about.

It drives me nuts too. Are they lazy, slefish or ignorant?
They keep blocking the area where the wheelchair children are unloaded. Feckers.

I think it must be every school - it makes me so angry. It's always the same people as well - Every time, I walk by and loudly say to ds 'What incredibly good parking'. I really feel like driving into one of them one day - before there really is, and there will be, a serious accident. grrrrrrrrrr.

I know exactly what you mean. At my dd's school, there is one mum who must always get to school at 2pm as she always parks in the same place which is directly opposite the reception class entrance (ie as near as she can without actually parking in the classroom). This means other drivers have to swerve around her as she is near as dammit double parking. Then the lazy t**t only gets out when she sees them opening the gate into the yard. As I am 7.5 months pregnant with twins I am even more annoyed as I always have to park down the road in a safe place and WALK! Do these people not know how to use their legs???????

Totally agree. I live next door to an infant school and whilst most parents park safely there is a number that do not. Parking on the zig-zags, parking up on the pavement of the school drive so children have to walk ON the drive, parking in the bus stop....

I went to pick up my DD2 from school (not the one I live next door to) the other day and the car park was jammed - apparently there was some sort of inspection so all the inspectors had parked there. Two cars had squeezed themselves into the single disabled bay (that we have a permit to use) so I took great delight in parking across them so they couldn't get out! They then finished their inspection as the children finished school but had to wait for DD2 and I to return to the car and leave, which took aaaaaaaaages as DD2 is so slow.

I didn't rush her

Why do so many people need to drive their kids to school? (Obviously if kids are disabled that's a different scenario.) I just don't understand it.

How far away from primary school do most people live? My DD1's school is a 15-minute walk from home, and we always walk it - just wouldn't occur to me to drive.

It's like the wacky races outside ds's primary school.

Driving onto pavements.
Stopping on zig-zag lines.
Blocking driveways.

I could go on and on.

Wispa - we live 2 miles away, and do walk it most days. Don't walk it though if it's chucking it down with rain.

we're 2 and a half miles from dd's school. Its a mainstream that has a resource base for physically impaired children. Mostly she goes by LEA taxi but I try and walk her there as often as I can (I have MS). Takes about 40 mins to walk, 40 mins to walk back.
Don't know if I will do it much longer as she gets bigger as there's a steep hill to go down then a minor one to go up before a falt walk for the last mile. Her wheelchair weighs 23 kg all by itself!
I wish she could go to the local school as its 3 mins walk but they couldn't cope with her.
But I can't believe how many people drive. 99% are local within a mile. Yet many drive!

Inisde the school is a drop area for the disabled children (there's 12) who either come by taxi or who are driven yet non-disabled parents park there 'its only for a minute' or 'I'm just dropping off my child'
There's big notices telling them not too but the attitude is we are getting some sort of special favour for our kids in wheelchairs!

People can be selfish.

They want to get their own child picked up and home but don't think about other peoples children in the playground/car park.

Just a matter of time before a child is run over. There has already been two crashes.

Had one car blocking the entire pavement the other day - so unreasonable

Had to laugh on the school run yesterday - there are 2 school snext door to each other where mine go, lots of space to park in the surrounding roads with only a 2 minute walk. Still people park on zig zags, yellow lines, across driveways etc.

Yesterday there were 4 policemen and 6 traffic wardens patrolling - I have never been so happy to see a traffic warden!

Twas v funny to see all the parents who usually arrive as the bell goes, panicking to find a space and then legging it up the road. They had to park even further away as they had left it so late!

There have been 2 incidents in the last year where children have been hurt, luckily only minor, but could have been a lot worse and must have been terrifying for them/their parents. Still people take no notice of the parking restrictions.

I a CM with a double buggy, and get so annoued when I am forced to walk around cars into the road because the gap on the pavement is too small.

YANBU