Is the School run really this stressfull ??
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Just had to mention this ! Yesterday I went up to my mums. They have gone on hols for the week and I’m going up everyday to feed the cats etc. Mum and pops live on a culdesac. At the back of their house is a junior & infant school. Everyday at school turning out time their road becomes clogged with people picking up their kids. Anyway yesterday I arrive at about 2:30, feed cats and rub ears, water plants etc. I’d gone up in the 400 and parked on the road outside their house. A reasonable place to park I thought. Can't get it on the drive because it's too steep. Nearest car was about 40yds up the road on the other side. Meanwhile school turns out and is in full flow when I leave to go to the car. All the parents have clogged the road up double parking, blocking peoples drives etc. I’m just about to get in the car when Mr 4x4 with a car full of kids screeches to a halt at the side of the 400 blasting on the horn. Rolls his window down and shouts “ Next time park your uckfing car on the pavement you tw#t ! “ What is it with these people ? I remember my Dad telling me a similar story when he was outside cleaning his car at about 3pm. After all he lives there for Christsake ! These people are just picking their kids up !! It’s a good job he didn’t hang around for my reply. Am I been unreasonable ?
I dont have kids
but have been to pick my nephew and nieces up with my sister a few times.
She gets there about half an hour
before they finish otherwise she has to park miles away as there is so many cars.
Unfortunatly i can understand why as people just dont feel safe any more with all these Idiots about u read about.
Thats also the sad thing, i think these idiots/paepeophiles(sp?) etc have always been about its just we live in a world where the Media can tells more and rightly so,but unfortunatly this is one of the drawbacks and only human nature.
I do think something has to be done about it though as some roads are just completely blocked and the amount of extra traffic is unbeleivable.
You only have to look at the roads when the Kids are on there school hols, its shear BLIS.
BB
>> Edited by Ballistic Banana on Saturday 12th October 15:10
but have been to pick my nephew and nieces up with my sister a few times. She gets there about half an hour
before they finish otherwise she has to park miles away as there is so many cars. Unfortunatly i can understand why as people just dont feel safe any more with all these Idiots about u read about.
Thats also the sad thing, i think these idiots/paepeophiles(sp?) etc have always been about its just we live in a world where the Media can tells more and rightly so,but unfortunatly this is one of the drawbacks and only human nature.
I do think something has to be done about it though as some roads are just completely blocked and the amount of extra traffic is unbeleivable.
You only have to look at the roads when the Kids are on there school hols, its shear BLIS.
BB
>> Edited by Ballistic Banana on Saturday 12th October 15:10
1. Yes it is that stressful for anyone who can actually look somewhere out of the windows when driving, fortunately most mums on the school run are oblivious to other road users..
2. Complain to the head of that school. Get the plate of that guy.
I live in a cul de sac with school and have been told that before I moved in the road used to be blocked all the time, a neighbour made a few complaints later and problem solved.
2. Complain to the head of that school. Get the plate of that guy.
I live in a cul de sac with school and have been told that before I moved in the road used to be blocked all the time, a neighbour made a few complaints later and problem solved.
why the **** should you park on the pavement its illegal for starters.
Utter tossers why dont they walk their fat, lazy, spoilt, sad excuses, for human beings to school - my mate and his girlfriend wont let their kid go to school by car - its a ten minuite ( max ) walk and they take him every morning.
Utter tossers why dont they walk their fat, lazy, spoilt, sad excuses, for human beings to school - my mate and his girlfriend wont let their kid go to school by car - its a ten minuite ( max ) walk and they take him every morning.
It's not just school-running parents who are lazy beyond belief. I live near a theatre, and when there's an evening performance on, the roads immediately next to the theatre are absolute chaos - people parking on double yellows, on the pavement, blocking drives and other exits, holding up the traffic while they make repeated attempts to reverse into tiny spaces, etc etc. Yet no more than a couple of hundred yards away are streets with plenty of empty parking bays. Just incredible.
Oh, and off-topic, but I'd just like to say to the OAP in an R-reg Polo who tried to jump a queue of traffic this morning by barrelling down the bus lane and attempting to push in front of me...unlucky! Boxed you in good and proper behind that parked bus, didn't I? And judging by the way you were beeping your horn and flicking Vs at me, I really got to you, didn't I? Mwahahaha!
That'll teach you, you selfish old coffin-dodger 
Oh, and off-topic, but I'd just like to say to the OAP in an R-reg Polo who tried to jump a queue of traffic this morning by barrelling down the bus lane and attempting to push in front of me...unlucky! Boxed you in good and proper behind that parked bus, didn't I? And judging by the way you were beeping your horn and flicking Vs at me, I really got to you, didn't I? Mwahahaha!
That'll teach you, you selfish old coffin-dodger I used to walk to skool. 2 miles or more, why can't they? I saw this in the village where my parents live (and I grew up). A small village and 4be4's and people carriers everywhere at kicking out time. Take you 1/4 hour to walk from one end to the other. Out of townies (or villigies) maybe? Judging by the shape of the little bloaters they could do with the exorcise.
When I lived in England, I walked or cycled just about every morning up till I was 13 yrs old, then I screwed my knee up and depending on how it felt in the morning depended on how I went to school, the weather occasionally had an affect! It was never that bad outside my school though, had a fat friend down road who couldn't walk to the end of the street without having to stop for a 20 minute rest, but that was because he was too 
ing lazy to walk any further than the end of the garden!
ing lazy to walk any further than the end of the garden!I go out of my front door, turn left, walk 200 yds. to the main road, turn right and walk 250 yards to the school entrance.
Get this: at the top of my road, where it meets the main road, a woman gets her kids into her 3xx Beemer and - yes - DRIVES!!!!!! - the 250 yds. to the school entrance. If she sets off lateish, she actually drives around 150 yards, because with all the cars parking she can't get closer to the school entrance.
With prats like that around - what do you expect?!?
Rgds, WalterU
Get this: at the top of my road, where it meets the main road, a woman gets her kids into her 3xx Beemer and - yes - DRIVES!!!!!! - the 250 yds. to the school entrance. If she sets off lateish, she actually drives around 150 yards, because with all the cars parking she can't get closer to the school entrance.
With prats like that around - what do you expect?!?
Rgds, WalterU
WalterU said: I go out of my front door, turn left, walk 200 yds. to the main road, turn right and walk 250 yards to the school entrance.
Get this: at the top of my road, where it meets the main road, a woman gets her kids into her 3xx Beemer and - yes - DRIVES!!!!!! - the 250 yds. to the school entrance. If she sets off lateish, she actually drives around 150 yards, because with all the cars parking she can't get closer to the school entrance.
With prats like that around - what do you expect?!?
Rgds, WalterU
doesnt the most pollution spew out of a car when its cold? so if thats all she drives then she's just damaging the planet for her spawn. lazy b1tch! must take longer for her to pull out of her drive, wade through traffic and then park up, surely? (not being sexist, just that if I'm posting letters at the postbox about 200 yards down the road, I'd walk it cos I know how long it takes to reverse the cars onto the street, weave in and out of parked cars and then park up safely, then parked it back neatly on my drive!)
Used to live opposite an infant school, with a junior school a coupla hundred yeards behind. Down the side of the house was an unadopted road leading to the back gate of said junior school. Our garage was at the back of our house accessible by said unadopted road.
So come school chucking out time, I occasionally made a point of needing to "go out urgently". It was most fun when someone would just park across the end of our drive, and leave the car there.
Picture the scene... drive right up to side of car blocking drive, lean on horn. Wait.
Deeply satisfying.
So come school chucking out time, I occasionally made a point of needing to "go out urgently". It was most fun when someone would just park across the end of our drive, and leave the car there.
Picture the scene... drive right up to side of car blocking drive, lean on horn. Wait.
Deeply satisfying.
My local primary is near the fire station. The boys in blue/red/yellow have a good laugh every few months.
Standard chaos at 8:45-9:15. Cars everywhere. Mums arranging coffee afternoons or whatever. Cars having to weave between two lines of stationary 4x4s with little kids running under you wheels.
Blue watch turn up in the engine. No room for a scooter, let alone them. Turn on the blue strobes and blip the siren. Sit back and giggle whilst eating bacon sarnies.
Utter, utter chaos. I need to ask them when they're doing it again and get pictures.
WalterU said: I go out of my front door, turn left, walk 200 yds. to the main road, turn right and walk 250 yards to the school entrance
I live a similar distance and see the same thing regularly. My kids have allways walked to school, sometimes accompanied by me in a wheelchair. I have had to wait for some t*at to pull out of their drive to get there, then still beat them to the school!
Just one last point to add, there are some places where people have no option but to drive there kids to school.
When my dad and his new family lived in Elsworth in Cambs, My little sister and then my little brother walked to and from school every day, rain, sleet, snow, sunshine, whatever, they walked. However, about 6 months after my little brother started, my dad moved to Over which is on the other side of the A14 and a good 20 minute drive door to door, so now they get driven. There is a primary School (or even 2) local, but to prevent old, new school, new teachers, new friends routine, they didn't change schools.
Edited to say: I did that run on numerous occasions last year, and if you go in with the mindset that it's going to be stressful, you'll come out stressed!
>> Edited by tvradict on Sunday 13th October 13:24
When my dad and his new family lived in Elsworth in Cambs, My little sister and then my little brother walked to and from school every day, rain, sleet, snow, sunshine, whatever, they walked. However, about 6 months after my little brother started, my dad moved to Over which is on the other side of the A14 and a good 20 minute drive door to door, so now they get driven. There is a primary School (or even 2) local, but to prevent old, new school, new teachers, new friends routine, they didn't change schools.
Edited to say: I did that run on numerous occasions last year, and if you go in with the mindset that it's going to be stressful, you'll come out stressed!
>> Edited by tvradict on Sunday 13th October 13:24
superflid said: I know that there are going to be kids who need to be driven to school, but why do they all insist on parking within 10 yards of the school entrance? Surely it wouldn't hurt to get them to walk a couple of hundred yards.
You've just hit the nail on the head! That is the problem, 100+ parents fighting for 5 or 6 spaces, when they could quite easily relax and park round the corner! What is the problem in walking half a mile from the car to the school. Is the only excercise these fat lazy
wits get anyway. Although having said that, Sony, Microsoft, Sega and Nintendo aren't all blameless, and bear with me while I elaborate. Years and Years ago, Nintendo launched the NES, then the SNES, Sega had to Games Master and the Mega drive and Sony, after a while came on the seen with the Playstation. When I was at school only the "Elite" kids had one, the ones who's daddy's drove mercs and mummy's worked in the local bank. My after school activities consisted of meeting down the local rec for football, or at the sports club for Hockey training. Super Mario land was something only whsipered about in class when everyone else had gone out to lunch.
But as usual times change, There is now a more elite game consol available at next to nothing, Game Cube's, Dreamcast, PS 2's and the XBox. An example of each can now be found in every street, in every village, town, and city. This latest breed of offspring are living their lives on Maccy D's and Halo. Instead of class room chatter being filled with tales of who got smacked in the goolies at hockey, it's now filled who's gone to the highest level, or who has completed it in the shortest time.
I myself own one of these console's, I have a new XBox sitting on my video, but it is my R&R time, after 62 hours of work last week, all weekend relaxing driving skyline,s around the street's of New York, and blowing the shit out of some annoying alien on and strange planet is my idea of fun. But, it will be turned off tonight and probably won't be turned on again until next saturday.
But ladies and gentlemen, it is time. Time we as a unit, unite and get these little fat pie eating, game playing barstewards back on the Rec's playgrounds of a beautiful nation, if you have kids, and a playstation et al, go now and turn it off, hide it away, bin it, or shove it under the sofa, get your kids back out playing football against your neighbours wall, climbing trees and MAKE them walk to school.
If we don't act now, it will be too late in 10 years time, the workforce will all be on the sick, Peter Wheeler will have to make cars that Americans can get into, and there will be a McDonalds/Burger King/KFC or Pizza hut on every street corner.
It's time the money paying public ridded our culture of game addiction!
tvradict, top rant chap.
When I went to school (some 15 years ago now!) I can not remember ever being taken to school by car, and can count the number of times I was brought home on one hand.
I didn't live near the school either, and there was no 'school bus' only the standard public transport, this was a 2 mile bus journey followed by a 1.5 mile walk, I didn't even get a bus pass
I was never fiddled with in anyway, and I didn't even get to see any puppies
Parks in my area are empty cause all the kids are playing virtual football at home but still think they are going to be the next Beckham
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When I went to school (some 15 years ago now!) I can not remember ever being taken to school by car, and can count the number of times I was brought home on one hand.
I didn't live near the school either, and there was no 'school bus' only the standard public transport, this was a 2 mile bus journey followed by a 1.5 mile walk, I didn't even get a bus pass
I was never fiddled with in anyway, and I didn't even get to see any puppies Parks in my area are empty cause all the kids are playing virtual football at home but still think they are going to be the next Beckham
[theblokefromdadsarmystylee]
We're all doomed
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