School run mums (and dads)
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The local primary is just around the corner from me in a network of cul de sacs. Don't. Get. Me. Started.
My personal favourite, a mum telling her child off for nearly getting hit by a car. The driver had mounted the pavement, but hell, kids have got to learn their place.
My personal favourite, a mum telling her child off for nearly getting hit by a car. The driver had mounted the pavement, but hell, kids have got to learn their place.
Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
I'm always amazed at how many cars that close pass me, or overtake me on blind corners have 'baby on board' signs in the rear window. The sign might as well say 'aren't i wonderful, i've squeezed out a sprog, f**k the rest of you'!
I got knocked off by a 4x4 mum doing the school run a few years back. I was ok- it was a low speed collision, albeit caused by spectacularly dumb driving, but the cretin then proceeded to drive over my previously unscathed bicycle while I lay in the road wondering how badly hurt I might be! There are some seriously stupid people out there.
I got knocked off by a 4x4 mum doing the school run a few years back. I was ok- it was a low speed collision, albeit caused by spectacularly dumb driving, but the cretin then proceeded to drive over my previously unscathed bicycle while I lay in the road wondering how badly hurt I might be! There are some seriously stupid people out there.
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on the road
Über Member
These school run mums are always complaining that the road is too busy for their kids to walk to school, they don't seem to realise that it's them who are causing all the traffic on the roads. I've notice how much less traffic there is on the roads during what would normally be school chucking out time when it's the school holidays.
gavgav
Legendary Member
They annoy the hell out of me every day, as I pass 2 of the main secondary schools in Shrewsbury on my way to work. No indicators, they just stop anywhere they want and doors fly open with kids bailing out in all directions. Makes me laugh that most of the kids I see with a bike are walking with them and not riding them to school 
Linford
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[QUOTE 2645494, member: 45"]Strangely enough after moving from the Midlands and the children going to the middle of an affluent area we've found far fewer parents driving kids in, and a much more pleasant cycling experience.[/quote]
There is plenty of money in Brum...you only have to look at the cars on the roads there
There is plenty of money in Brum...you only have to look at the cars on the roads there
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
Isn't one of the points in.school.catchment areas that kids can.walk.to.schools locally?
on the road
Über Member
Surely you're not expecting them to walk a few yards, they'll be out of breath and gasping for air by the time they get to the school gates
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
And don't forget the paedophiles lurking in the bushes!Surely you're not expecting them to walk a few yards, they'll be out of breath and gasping for air by the time they get to the school gates
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
And don't forget the paedophiles lurking in the bushes!
I used to sit on the school appeals admission panel, one of the more common reasons given for wanting little chardonnay to go to the out of catchment skool was that it was easier to park there.
Puddles
Do I need to get the spray plaster out?
- Location
- Hamble, Southampton
Squidge's school is 0.3 miles from our house, he cycles ( I know it is a piddly distance) but it was in preparation for this year when I will have to drop him at school and then drop User76 at her pre-school which is a mile in the other direction and we have 10 minutes to get her there. Plus when you have a tired User76 it was easier to have her in the bike trailer.
Generally as I go out the front door a lady about 10 doors up drives passed with her small people in the car, I can then get 2 bikes out the garage and a trailer, attach trailer, strap maggot in, fill the trailer boot with whatever luggage we have (lunchboxes sports kits etc) cycle to the school drop Squidge, cycle home, get User76 out of trailer, indoors, make coffee, drink 1/2 of coffee before the lady 10 doors up comes passed in her car again after dropping her children.
The car park next to the school is for the park not the school parents use it, the parents double park & block each other in basically they cover every square inch of the tarmac with cars, its like a giant puzzle until the one near the gate moves no-one can move, then they have to get out of the car park back on Hamble Lane this is one of the busiest b roads in the country so that takes ages too.
If there is anything at the school, sports day, assembly etc anything that involves parents attending it is always interrupted several times with the "Can the owner of vehicle reg. blah blah move there car they are blocking someone in please can parents be aware that the car park is not ours and users of the recreation ground park there"
The one I love most is the usual meeting about the main road to the school being one of the busiest B road and the fact that the aircraft factory in the village & the optician factory causes large volumes of traffic and that a tanker every 5 minutes on average up the road from the oil terminal does not assist this, where all the 4x4 parents huff and puff and chatter on about volumes of traffic and how they got the factories to change shift patterns so it does not coincide with school times and then they themselves clog that road up!
I will be honest I would rather be in front of a tanker on my bike than a school run parent in a car. The tankers have never used their size to intimidate me off the road, a tanker has never beeped like a maniac at me, a tanker has never passed me so close the wing mirror is 1/2 inch away, a tanker driver has never shouted at me, school driving parents have all done this. (I was not popular with them when I pointed this out in last years meeting). I was even less popular when I pointed out they could get a bike & trailer in decent condition for pootling to school and back for about the same as one fill up of fuel of the tank of their great snorting monsters.
Generally as I go out the front door a lady about 10 doors up drives passed with her small people in the car, I can then get 2 bikes out the garage and a trailer, attach trailer, strap maggot in, fill the trailer boot with whatever luggage we have (lunchboxes sports kits etc) cycle to the school drop Squidge, cycle home, get User76 out of trailer, indoors, make coffee, drink 1/2 of coffee before the lady 10 doors up comes passed in her car again after dropping her children.
The car park next to the school is for the park not the school parents use it, the parents double park & block each other in basically they cover every square inch of the tarmac with cars, its like a giant puzzle until the one near the gate moves no-one can move, then they have to get out of the car park back on Hamble Lane this is one of the busiest b roads in the country so that takes ages too.
If there is anything at the school, sports day, assembly etc anything that involves parents attending it is always interrupted several times with the "Can the owner of vehicle reg. blah blah move there car they are blocking someone in please can parents be aware that the car park is not ours and users of the recreation ground park there"
The one I love most is the usual meeting about the main road to the school being one of the busiest B road and the fact that the aircraft factory in the village & the optician factory causes large volumes of traffic and that a tanker every 5 minutes on average up the road from the oil terminal does not assist this, where all the 4x4 parents huff and puff and chatter on about volumes of traffic and how they got the factories to change shift patterns so it does not coincide with school times and then they themselves clog that road up!
I will be honest I would rather be in front of a tanker on my bike than a school run parent in a car. The tankers have never used their size to intimidate me off the road, a tanker has never beeped like a maniac at me, a tanker has never passed me so close the wing mirror is 1/2 inch away, a tanker driver has never shouted at me, school driving parents have all done this. (I was not popular with them when I pointed this out in last years meeting). I was even less popular when I pointed out they could get a bike & trailer in decent condition for pootling to school and back for about the same as one fill up of fuel of the tank of their great snorting monsters.
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User169
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School run, Dutch stylee...
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
Lets execute them all
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
I've been told a few times recently that it's ok if I leave work early. So far I've declined every time as my normal time for leaving is just as the school run round the corner from the office has cleared out the way. Give me standard rush hour commuting any time.
