4 x 4 driver, dropping off privately educated boy outside my house, on the pavement, forcing my son out of the way!

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garrrr

he came out of the house, pissing down raining cats and dogs, to cross the road to catch the bus, this woman in a huge black 4 by 4 drove him off the pavement to drop off her precious
i was fuming.
despite being in my dressing gown i really wanted to go out and bang on her window

(Oh, and re someone earlier talking about fist fights, the only one I've seen round this way was between two parents at the gates of the private school For Young Ladies. As it happens. )

(Ironically enough, over allegations of bullying.)

As others have said, your post title suggests you're equally pissed off with the fact this child is privately educated?! Silly really, given that him being so could have freed up a place at the local school for a child like yours? (and hopefully mine!)

YANBU about the driving/your boy's safety. But you did seem to have a chip on your shoulder there..

p.s. I never do see the need for bull bars on the front of some of those Chelsea Tractors. Given that they're only used for nipping down to Waitrose for a couple of brioche, would they reeeally encounter any large animals?

Yet they massively increase injuries in anyone they hit, as my paramedic sister can testify..

YANBU at all.

It seems 4X4 drivers and BMW drivers do this a lot.

The "chip" came out again did you see it ? Did you ?

Why are people moaning at the OP for pointing out the child was privately educated? Surely it is a valid point that this person obviously thought her child more important than the OP's? I think the school and the car are relevant. It may be a stereotype or it may be true of this woman.

I disagree Totally, because if it was a women in a Ford Fiesta dropping off their child in a different uniform to the one the OP knows to be an independent, you might perhaps think "silly woman, can't see where she's going in the rain!" or even consider her as a bit harassed, (albeit clumsy and still, driving dangerously). But to assume that the rich bitch and her precious Tarquin think your child isn't worth pavement space is a little paranoid non?

Well it might be or it might not be, she didn't speak to the woman and the woman slotted into the steroetype marvellously. Which may be due to crap driving and being absent minded, or may be because she fits it perfectly. Who knows.

Well it might be or it might not be, she didn't speak to the woman and the woman slotted into the steroetype marvellously. Which may be due to crap driving and being absent minded, or may be because she fits it perfectly. Who knows.

Sorry, my laptop went mental and posted twice.

Why does it automatically mean the woman thought her son was better? - she may just be a crap driver/not seen the other child.

theres definatley a wanker scale for driving and we all know it.

4x4 and beemers - just wankers

stick a woman driver in and you have crap wankers

I doubt that the fact that the driver thought that her child was more important than than the OP's has anything to do with where the child went to school. I don't suppose the driver noted the OP's DS's uniform and then decided to try to knock him down (unless the OP was unlucky enough to stumble on a psychopath as opposed to a run-of-the-mill idiot)

but also white van man

and old man driving a Rover at 21 mph on a dual carriageway

Custard and Fabhead I couldn't agree more. Well said.

acebaby- it's not a conscious thing, it's a general attitude and clearly the OP has picked up on it for her to mention it. I do think it's a case of labeling but I don't necessarily think that's wrong. I think everyone's just arguing the toss because everyone knows that some people act this way and others pick up on it.

I'm a bit jaundiced about 4x4s as one of them reversed and killed my brand new Lexus. Total write off ("Oooh my parking sensors didn't go off" I thought I was restrained in NOT asking her if her eyes had failed to operate as well). Obviously I would not be nearly as jaundiced had the woman in question killed a couple of state school children ...

Hah, my dad is the Rover driver that drives a steady 20mph in the 30 zone.

Actually, in my more petulant early twenties, I drove behind one of these types for about five minutes before losing it, overtaking and giving him to fingers
Ten minutes after I got home, so did my dad.. it was him, unimpressed!

I digress.

oooh I do think those parking sensors do make you a bit over-reliant on them. I have them in the car I normally drive (MPV, not 4x4 I hasten to add) and I find I am a tad dangerous when reversing in DP's car occasionally as I automatically think they will kick in and forget they're not there. Having said that they do make me suddenly stop dead if they unexpectedly go off when I am part way through a well-executed reverse in Tesco carpark because Rich Bitch in 4x4 / White Van Man / Old Geezer in Rover / Silly Saleslady with Too Many Cats in Ridiculous Convertible thinks they are more important than me and should be able to reverse out of opposite space befor me, which is probably useful.

But then I am Flustered School Run Mum in a Hurry Driving People Carrier She Can't See Out The Back Of so I am noone to talk.

Lotster - HA HA HA

or even two fingers, gawd... I can spell, honest.

Thats my DP buggered then. He was privately educated AND he drives a Landy. He even has the cheek to drive it around town and take his DD to/from Uni in it when at the beginning and end of term. How very dare he!

If he makes an error of judgement in driving, as we all surely do from time to time it must be because of his education and choice of vehicle.

Now why didn't I think of that? He'll have to go, won't he?

Vallhala - "landy"? get you!

He can get some spray on faux mud to make it look more authentic you know.

I think if you have pooches to cart around a LR is almost justified