The School Run Experience

[anonymous-user]

I'm lucky in that my driving is done very early AM (to station), during the day (client meetings) or post rush hour (from station), and at weekends. I never usually have to venture out during the to/from school run times.

Until today. I had to see a client for an early meeting and had to drive from my rural base to/through the local town at the height of the school run, past 5 x junior schools and 2 x senior schools.

Well fk me .

The standard of driving was absolutely appalling. Mostly, but certainly not exclusively, women, driving cars loaded with little ones and paying next to no notice to anything going on around them. It's like they drive in little bubbles. No signalling, random manouvres and Brownian Motion-like progress, parking with no care or regard for others (pedestrians, road users, residents alike) and often smoking/texting/phoning whilst trying to drive and control their off-spring at the same time.

I've driven all over the world - e.g. India regularly, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Cornwall, and this was right up there with the worst of them.

If we want to solve our budget deficit I can only suggest we employ part-time traffic plod for the school run periods only - the fines they could generate would have us debt free in less than a year...

Shan't be doing that again .

[v8will]

Almost as bad is watching people try park cars that are evidently too large for their driving skills at the supermarket on a Saturday afternoon.

[limjamrace]

Been going on for years.

When i used to drop my little chap off some 15 years ago as a pedestran,woman who lived closer to me would act out that scene.
The police were brought in to catch speeding motorists approaching the school but ignored the activities going on at what you said.

It carried on from there off to the shops afterwards....some 500yds away from the school..No wonder there are so many fat arses around!

In the modern age everything is so self -centered. Don't like to categorise anyone but i'm a cyclist as well approaching 60 . I am on orange alert when a MPV with female driver is near . Many a time i'm negociated as a say a post rather than another precious form of life.

Be a grand thing if all road users went on a course in all aspects of motor vehicle transport and the life of a pedestran.

[MC Bodge]

I once made the mistake of riding my motorbike past the local private school at 08:30
Never again will I do such a thing.