The Horrors of the School Run
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And this is indeed the point that I had to hear him moaning about for weeks afterwards - that the guy called the police because he couldn't get ON to his drive to park. I wasn't there to witness it, but I had to listen to the story enough times.
1st day of the Easter break this week so bliss, I live right outside a primary school. If this thread is still going in a couple of weeks I'll post a pic of the average school run day in the morning and afternoon, bedlam.
No doubt if one of the parents little darlings had an accident outside school there would be hell up.
No doubt if one of the parents little darlings had an accident outside school there would be hell up.
Wouldn't blocking someone in heir drive way be "preventing access to that road" as you put it?
Depends on where you live. My local council makes it illegal to park anywhere over a dropped kerb in the whole of the borough, and you can call their parking enforcement number and get a car ticketed if you are the homeowner and have registered your drive with the council.
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The school run is the holy trinity of chaos.
Cars, women and children.
I've emailed the police about persistant parking offenders in the past. They went out of their way to be unhelpful.
Cars, women and children.
The Police have almost no jurisdiction over parking, it is a civil issue so either your friend got Police confused with 'Council Parking Attendant' or it didn't happen
I've emailed the police about persistant parking offenders in the past. They went out of their way to be unhelpful.
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Amazing school run this morning. A group a our larger mums had a long conversation IN THE ENTRANCE. Another group clustered at the pedestrian crossing and not one of them thought pressing the button might aid their crossing efforts - I had to do it when I turned up ten seconds after they had been standing there like idiots. Lots of parking on double yellows, lots of dogs, lots of douche bags.
Angrily I post more of my encounters in search of catharsis. This guy's hedge is strategically placed on one of the most footfall-heavy pavements and it goes on for a fair bit as it's a large house:
I have to pass it every day.
More exemplary parking:
I have to pass it every day.
More exemplary parking:
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You were lucky. We had to hop whilst being savaged by rabid badgers. Young 'uns today ....
So we'll hear in the news about a pervert taking pictures of kids outside a school during the morning school run?
couple of cheap U/D locks of ebay, stick em though the spokes of their wheels when no bodys looking
You may mock but I did actually get chased by a badger once on the way to school!
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As of the start of the week I have escaped the school run chaos by the miracle of breakfast club and my son staying a little longer after school. Makes everything so much easier and cheaper for that matter, breakfast club is £10 a week. Child care for one week, only 50 minutes in the morning and then being taken to school was costing £127 because no matter how short the stay is you are charged for the whole morning session.
Total bliss this week, ample parking and no two abreast pavement hogs with prams, not to mention the lower forms of life that are absent from the streets around the school at 7-50am, probably only grudgingly rise 10 minutes before they get their spawn to school.
Total bliss this week, ample parking and no two abreast pavement hogs with prams, not to mention the lower forms of life that are absent from the streets around the school at 7-50am, probably only grudgingly rise 10 minutes before they get their spawn to school.
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I remember being a young nipper and playing with the steering wheel, I was spinning it to the best of my ability and heard a 'click'.
After much panic, my mum eventually returned to the car having bought some milk/eggs from Dillons, and didn't mention a thing.
Thinking about it years on, turns out it was just me locking the steering
Lucky you, i was playing in my uncles Camry and shifted it into gear, then turned the ignition and it lurched about 4 foot then into the side of the house, house was fine the cars bumper wasn't
. Was about 9 then lol.Working at a school i've seen horrors like dad running over his own daughter and a parent wiping out 2 kids in the car park. Luckily both low speed and worst was a broken arm.