What cars do private school mums drive?

[lavendarhillslob]

Is it all 4x4s and Porches? Do any of you drive cars that are not range rover evoques. And if there are mums at your school who drive normal cars, like a Ford Mondeo - what do you think of them?

[cathyandclaire]

She had a right sneer on her face. Was it because I don't have a 4x4 or was it because I was using the mirror to put on my lipstick?
Maybe she thought your lipstick didn't suit your colouring and you needed something with more of an orange tone?

[Sillybillybonker]

Lavendar She might have been sneering but why should this matter to you? Try to think about something good about yourself instead of focusing on this woman. Who matters you or her? I'm sure she is inconsequential to your life.

[SquirrelledAway]

Iamnotloobrushphobic I think Feta was being just a touch ironic.

[Iamnotloobrushphobic]

Oh, thanks squirrel, think I had a sense of humour bypass this morning

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

Feta have you also explained to them that your DC only throw things around the room because they are exceptionally sensitive and probably bored as they so gifted.

[elastamum]

I have a rather muddy XC90, before that I had another XC90, but it lasted me 9yrs and did 200k miles before it croaked, so hardly posh.

Round here there are a lot of 4X4 but it is very rural Derbyshire and in winter the roads are shocking as they don't grit the lanes.

[MerdeAlor]

I drive a bloody massive 4X4 and I frickin love it. The car park has a mixture of cars in it, not all 4x4 but there are lots of big cars. Campervans and people carriers are most popular.

We're not in the UK and people don't have so much of an opinion on what other people drive here - they don't care.

[Want2bSupermum]

Sillybilly I know the school you went to! My Aunt went there. I didn't go to secondary school on the Wirral as I went to a boarding school. I know nearly everyone took the bus who was going to Pensby or Caldy as did friends going to Birkenhead (which was private).

Brenda Having been to a top boarding school and been the kid with a family who could afford the fees without a drop in living standards, I was in the minority (of 1000 or so girls there were about 50 of us like that). Very few of my friends lived in larger homes, had luxury holidays, it was a week package holiday in a resort town in Spain or had a parent not working or things like guest bedrooms at home (which you would think would be more normal with private school families). Cars were all older and I only noticed it when I saw the car park at the local high school on parents evening which was close to our boarding school. Quite frankly I saw far more cars which were less than 5 years old. In my school an old estate, often a subaru, was far more normal. Most were clean and not caked in mud but they all had terrible rust. The school fees are crippling for most parents and especially by 6th form the difference can be seen.

It might be the case that families in cities like London don't have cars but when you get outside of major cities it's very normal, if not a necessity, for a family to have a car. There wasn't a family at my state primary school without a car and trust me when I say there was some real poverty there.

[MerdeAlor]

Good post Brenda

Most people truly don't care what other people drive. I don't care that my car stinks of rancid old dog but I know that turns some peoples noses up

[Yahooatemyaccount]

I drive a bog standard Vauxhall. When my dc first started at private school I was never sure exactly how to get there (my car being so crap it doesn't have a SATNAV.) but I always knew when I was on the right road because as I got nearer to the school as the cars in front and behind me suddenly became high-end 4x4s, Volvos, sports cars etc!! I never got lost if I followed one of them!