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Original poster

Told off on school run

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J1xxx · 27/10/2016 19:34

I am a single dad with a full time job as a solicitor in the cc, and therefore don't have much time to waste in the mornings. Today I was dropping my two dd's off at primary school and was running late for work so I pulled up outside school and let them get out and go to the playground together (they are in years 4+5 so responsible enough to cross a road). Anyway later on when picking them up I was confronted by one of the teaching assistants who waits at the gates who said I had been driving dangerously! I was quite embarrassed and told her I was very busy and it was none of her business. Am I in the wrong?

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CotswoldStrife · 27/10/2016 22:28

This must be the parent I saw arguing with a Police Officer one morning at school drop off. They had parked across a resident's drive and said 'where am I supposed to park then' to the Police Officer, who politely pointed out that the road was a long one and there was plenty of space further away from the school.

DesolateWaist · 27/10/2016 22:31

Maybe I'm a lot younger and less boring than the many solicitors you seem to know.
Still with the spelling mistakes. You've spelled 'smug twat' wrong this time.

elastamum · 27/10/2016 22:31

I was half hoping this was a wind up - the other scenario is the the OP is genuine and is unfortunately a self important prat. I feel for the TA, who is after all only trying to look out for the children Sad

Giselaw · 27/10/2016 22:32

lol indeed. Someone has been watching Bad Moms

Original poster
J1xxx · 27/10/2016 22:34

CotswoldStrife I doubt it, I've never had a problem before.
DesolateWaist oh dear, you are coming across incredibly bitter.

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Sparklingbrook · 27/10/2016 22:36

You don't need 'lol' on here. You have Grin face.

Oswin · 27/10/2016 22:36

Bitter? Why bitter? I don't understand why you would say they are bitter?

Original poster
J1xxx · 27/10/2016 22:40

Oswin because they seem to make abusive comments after I mention my job.

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PickAChew · 27/10/2016 22:40

Anyone else got ads for Churchill Lollipops?

Sunshineonacloudyday · 27/10/2016 22:41

He or she called him a smug twat. If you're going to give it then you have to take it.

Sunshineonacloudyday · 27/10/2016 22:42

J1 is this your first time posting.

WaitrosePigeon · 27/10/2016 22:43

Hmmmm

Cinnamal · 27/10/2016 22:44

Well as none of us were there to observe your driving or where you stopped, obviously you are going to get nothing useful from this thread, OP.

I will add however that self-important parents who believe themselves busy enough to endanger the lives of other children by stopping outside school gates and driving too fast, really piss me off.

Sunshineonacloudyday · 27/10/2016 22:45

My thoughts exactly Waitrose.

Original poster
J1xxx · 27/10/2016 22:49

Sunshineonacloudyday yes, can you tell. Don't think I'll be making any more might get my head bitten off again!

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ItShouldHaveBeenJess · 27/10/2016 22:53

Pick Me! Coincidence? Grin

Sparklingbrook · 27/10/2016 22:53

You had best be setting the alarm a bit earlier for the morning and getting to bed OP......

WindInThePussyWillows · 27/10/2016 23:02
Biscuit
ItShouldHaveBeenJess · 27/10/2016 23:03

OP, I really think it was your asserting you are a 'solicitor' and 'therefore don't have much time to waste in the mornings' that has kind of got peoples' backs up, plus your rather dismissive 'none of her business' comment, and yet you don't seem to understand why that may be the case.

I'm a cleaner. People expect me to be there on time. Does that make me less important than you? I don't have 'time to waste', either - I manage the morning routine with varying degrees of effectiveness, anyway. I still manage to be polite and respectful to the people who care for my DS, despite being in a 'lesser' job than you. I hope to improve my circumstances very soon.

If you learn anything from this thread, it should perhaps be that a little self-awareness never goes amiss.

Whathaveilost · 27/10/2016 23:40

Also it's half term so where are you?
It's nor where I live!

DesolateWaist · 27/10/2016 23:47

oh dear, you are coming across incredibly bitter.

Not in the slightest. Why would I be bitter?
What I dislike are people who are full of their own self importance and spend their time running down the 'little people'.

ThereIsNoFelange · 28/10/2016 00:11

Ah, you are a man, I see.

Therefore you are wrong.

Try Digital Spy.

treaclesoda · 28/10/2016 02:27

I'm not sure. But the important thing here is that a lot of people have had the opportunity to indignantly point out that it is not half term everywhere. Even though OP has stated that it IS half term where he is. So that's good.

I don't think those posts were aimed at the OP but at the poster who implied there was something odd about the story because it's half term. So we all had a good old natter about half term Grin

user1477282676 · 28/10/2016 03:09

People doing what OP did are putting pedestrian children at risk. We had this and it drove me mad. SO selfish. Right by the gates. Angry

venki · 28/10/2016 08:20

I think it's definitely half term where the op is, if you know what I mean.

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