The last day of (no school run) bliss

Daytona_nev

Yep,

Back again monday,

The morning roads will be chock full of gargantuan 4x4s & MPVs with mothers insisting on driving right up the the school gates to drop of their one lardy, nauseating brat.

The last 6 weeks of driving in have been bliss, unfortunately reality will soon be back with us.

rygon

since when did double yellow lines mean "park here if picking up children"
for some stupid reason my brother decided to pick up our cousin from school one time. Both sides of the road was littered with cars and as he tried to manover past one..another decided to go past him the other way and make space where there wasnt one. As he was a young driver she called the police thinking he wouldnt have insurance (even though he did and even told her that)
but the police had a field day..told her to shut up and went along and issued fines to every car parked on yellow lines

IvanOpinion

Must apply for a clamping licence ... I could make a fiortune out of illegally parked mothers.  

We have a school just round the corner from us which I have to pass to go anywhere.  Anytime I am on holiday I just can not move during the school run.  At one point I was so !!!!!! off by cars continually coming the other way (I waited for almost 5 minutes to be given a break... which never came) that I stopped my car in the middle of the road.  This caused total and utter gridlock, to which the lollipop lady called the police, who turned up about 20 minutes later and told me to move, but I explained that I was having a peaceful protest over the fact that I could not get in or out of my street.  Fortunately I knew the policeman well (he lives in our area and I have heard him complain many a time about the school run).  So he pretended to take my details for a further 15+ minutes (he was having great difficulty keeping a straight face) and then I agreed to move - apparently it took almost an hour for the police to get the traffic cleared.

What annoyed me most was that the mothers complaining the loudest all lived less than 5 minutes walk from the school.... how do I know because they kept yelling at the policeman to get me moving because they only lived 'over there' and pointed at their houses.  

And yes I would do it again.....fortunately I am usually at work while all this is going on. Not a bit of wonder we are raising a nation of fat lazy little brats.

Ivan

divadee

Unfortunately i have to drive to school as my local school is full up and wont take my daughter and the other school is 10 miles away. But before i moved i always walked to school it was only 5-10 mins away. But it amazed me the amount of mums that lived in my road that would drive. There was no need for it.

It also gave me quality talking time with my daughter staright after school to find out what she had been doing etc.... not battleing to fight through traffic which i have to do now.

I wish i could walk but 10 miles is a bit much for a 6 year old (and me come to think of it) ;D

Quackers

I too have to drive my children to school. My eldest daughter has had a stroke and the walk to school would knacker her for the rest of the day

We're not all bad though. I am able to just drop off my eldest outside the school gates. I then take my younger daughter to junior school and we park a few minutes walk away. Doing this is soooooo much easier than blocking school gates/parking in zig zags or double yellow lines. And I get away quicker than everyone else too! I'm not sure if most parents realise that it is their own children they are putting at risk by parking so badly.