A perfect opportunity for the council to post few traffic wardens to issue tickets and improve the finances, instead they do nothing.
I used to live oppoya primary school. Was absolute carnage most mornings with parents **having** to drive right up to the gate, rather than parking a street or two away and walking the last tiny bit.
School were utterly useless in dealing with it was well.
We used to live on the same road as a primary school, and I can confirm that parents are selfish arseholes.
The trouble is that the day they’re running a bit late to collect their kids, they block your driveway. They think it’s okay because there’s nowhere else to park, and they’ll only be 10 minutes… until they get talking to that mum from the PTA meetings in the playground.
They don’t seem to realise that someone else blocked it this morning. Another parent did it yesterday, two more the day before that, etc.
We’ve had parents park in our driveway while we were out, to go to parents evening. The fucking liberty.
I sympathise with her.
I work in a house (social care) that is very close to a primary school. The road is a permit only road due to it being neat a tram stop. When does permit parking end? That’s right, 3pm. A nice half an hour before kicking out time when they alluring there cars up the road at once. Worse thing is is that it’s a cul-de-sac so it just grids up. If I need to take my client out around that time we just can’t go, it’s too much of a shit show.
Unfortunately School run parents seem to be the most entitled road users out there.
We used to live on a cul de sac not far from a very picturesque church that was very popular for weddings. The road would get very heavily parked up with guests, and often it would be very hard to get out of the driveway because of cars parking either side of it, or on the other side of the road. On really bad days, some twerp would straight up just park across the drive and naff off to the church for an hour or two. People are just unbelievable.
Typical lazy and selfish and ignorant drivers. Stop making nonessential car journeys and walk or take public transport.
I lived in Europe for a few years and school buses picked the kids up early and took them to school
Worked fine
Just seems like another symptom of the threadbare nature of the english state setting parents desperate to get to work against harassed householders around the school in some sort of lord of the flies scenario
The tories always like to keep us plebs fighting like a bucket of crabs, while they take bribes for home decoration and give their donors PPE contracts
We wonder why we have an obesity problem meanwhile we bend over backwards for people driving what is often a very walkable journey
They’re a fckn nightmare when commuting to work as well. When school is out the roads are less than half as busy and a decent drive.
How far are people living from schools then? I walked 30 mins to and from school every day, so did most kids I knew, seems like everyone is getting a lift these days, add on top the amount of extra people + cars in the country whilst schools and roads remain the same… uk is not built for this many people to be here
I used to be forced away from a bus stop by people parking on the school run. I’d be stood next to the pole waiting to go to work and they just reverse up to me slowly and keep going and dont stop until I move. I’d always end up 3-4 cars away from the actual bus stop because of the wall of cars parked all 4 wheels on the pavement, heaven forbid they have to walk for 60 seconds to pick up their children
This shit is so common.
Im lucky because i dont really go out or come home during school times, but im normally in.
Car on the drive, car on the road, they will still park in front of my drive. For the exact reasons posted in this article i dont even bother going out there.
For me its just not worth the aggro, go out and complain when i dont need to go anywhere, but i shouldnt even be put in this situation.
I imagine this happens up and down the country regular, school parents and parking are the most inconsiderate things you’l see. Some people are so entitled they will literally park outside the school on red lines or white zig zags.
Neighbours used to do it when I was a kid, my dad thrashed the cunt and it never happened again.
Ah the late 90s.
I saw someone block someone else’s driveway during a school run. What they did was to park close enough so that getting out was a lot more difficult due to the close proximity between the two cars that the car was sandwiched in between.
People are right C***t’s these days because there’s next to no punishment for being one.
Driving standards have gone to shit. I see police daily drive past people on their phones whilst driving. Just a few days ago I watched a policeman bomb it no lights and no signals around and off a roundabout.
There’s a bus lane near me that literally always gets full of cars at around 4:30-530pm and the police even fucking use it.
Imagine there was a “you fucking deserved that” law where if someone blocked your drive and swore at you infront of your kids you could give em a little slap and pop their tyres. And when presented in court they are told “you fucking deserved it”
Because i’ve got a lot of slaps to hand out lately i can tell you lol
I find that almost all disputes of this nature can be solved with the help of a bucket of nails from Wickes and some welly.
My mum recently moved from a sheltered bungalow that faced a primary school. There were about 30 bungalows and around 8 spaces for parking. It was residential parking only and all the people who lived here were elderly and disabled – and it was clear from the design of the estate and properties that this was sheltered housing.
Every single day, morning and afternoon, you’d find the tiny car park absolutely RAMMED with about 30 cars. They’d park on the double yellows, they’d cram 6 cars into 4 spaces, they’d park up on the curb leaving no room for wheelchairs or mobility aids. They’d park in front of people’s drive and down the tiny single-lane road directly in front of the school. They’d park in front or behind residents cars blocking them in. This was a tiny cul-de-sac so the congestion caused serious issues and was dangerous.
It was a nightmare trying to get my mum in and out as she relies on mobility aids and can’t walk far.
One particular bad day we came home and found we could barely even get her car down the street due to cars. I had to sit there, hazards flashing, waiting for these parents to move. The school was maybe 10 meters away. I put her blue badge on display to make the point they were preventing disabled access.
The amount of dirty looks -I- got was ridiculous. Every one of these parents walking past me either couldn’t look at me at all, or glared at me. I glared right the fuck back.
I ended up complaining to the school and told them next time I’d be taking photos of license plates and forwarding them to both the council and the police to fine them. Not only was their parking dangerous, there were restrictions meaning they shouldn’t have been parked there at all.
Fair play to the school – the headmaster emailed back personally and was apologetic and said he sent out frequent letters to remind parents not to park but they ignored him.
The threat of the police seemed to work as for the next few weeks there wasn’t a single car parked there during the school run.
Thankfully my mum moved from that property around 6 weeks after (largely due to this issue) so no idea if it permanently resolved it.
What I don’t understand is why so many schools are built without dedicated pick up/drop of points. Granted if the school is decades old I’d understand, but the school I’m talking about was no later than 20 years old. We knew 20 years ago how heavily we relied on cars so why are new schools not mandated to have parent parking?
I just see so much dangerous, inconsiderate parking whenever it’s school drop off/kick out time and it pisses everyone off.
I’d get a license to clamp cars, put a big fuck off sign warning that cars will be clamped and release fee is 500 squid, and make bank
Just start letting down peoples tires,
They’ll get the message
I live in a small close knit town just over the road from one primary school, but my kids go to another one on the other side of town (we walk). The amount of shit parking, dangerous driving and general chaos I see at both schools is absolutely ridiculous, and the vast majority of parents live no more than a 10 minute walk away. Absolutely boggles my mind.
These people are assholes, but in mitigation, the school run is stressful, because you have to do it, you are terrified of being late, there’s no parking near schools, and you are desperate to find somewhere in a short time slot.
Why don’t we just prevent all this shit and have school buses in this country? To see how much traffic it would alleviate, just look at the roads in holiday time compared to term time.
If we had state-run, not for profit services like this, people would lap them up. Instead, the only buses provided have to make a huge profit for some shareholder or other, so it’s prohibitively expensive for those that might want to use it.
Off topic, but it feels like it’s only been in the past few years that more people have started calling it a ‘driveway’ instead of a ‘drive’.
I get this a lot to. It’s infuriating when they ignore the two car parks directly opposite my house and decide my driveway is the only place they can stop – not even either side of it. They always seem surprised when they get shouted at if I’m reversing off the drive at the moment they decide to stop directly being me, which happens a lot.
Must be a nightmare for you, just realised that’s the street behind that giant school on Stockport Road isn’t it?
All I’m saying is if this happened to me, a masked ninja would appear and put a brick through the guys window before disappearing.
It would be awfully inconvenient for them.
There is a spray called liquid ass. Just spray at the bottom of the windscreen where the car draws air in. The word will soon go round, “don’t park there, you’ll get ass sprayed”. Best thing is there is no provable damage to any cars.
Chuck a petrol bomb at the entitled cunts. Watch the abuse stop 🙂
You can get a very cheap and small tool that attaches onto your keyring for breaking car windows in case of emergency
It’s the fact that these parents drive in the first place.
Our local primary is oversubscribed and has a catchment of less than 1k in most directions. We live in one of the furthest out houses in catchment, and walk them there and back every day – it’s about 1200m each way, entirely on off-road paths. One road to cross.
Both my kids have friends whose houses we pass along the way, then we bump into them parking up, having driven 400 metres to drop the kids off. They just won’t walk.
Schools could definitely do more. I remember the walk to school appeal they did at one point, even sometimes encouraging walking part of the way and parking at a distance. Or, they could introduce staggered start and finish times for year groups like they did during covid so not all the cars are there at once. Or, have a larger window of time in which kids can be dropped off so there isn’t this manic rush because parents need to get to work.
We really need a crackdown on on street parking in the UK. The way we do things now is practically third world.
Sadly I can see this being a politically difficult challenge with not many realising the level of the problem and being interested in tackling it whilst the auto lobby would be screaming murder at even moderate reforms.
Let’s just dream of the Japanese system.
Just ban cars near schools at pickup drop-off time it would make entire areas safer and people less like to be fucking cunts. the road near me that has a school on it become incredibly dangerous around pickup drop-off time parents racing around in big 4x4s not looking at all of where they’re going I’m amazed that no parent and or child has been killed yet
My Mums old house was next to my old primary school. Parking there was insane. I distinctively remember my grandad actually bumping into one car to prove a point. I used to sit there holding the horn down on my motorbike until they moved and would then park my car there.
I get this all the time.
My council are just not interested.
Happens in leafy little villages too, I live on a road where parents queue in cars to drop kids off at the village primary school. Our neighbour got abuse from a school governor, who blocked their driveway, when they asked them to move
Neighbour the other side also got into an argument with a parent who said it was her fault for living near a school and they should have known what to expect
They even park along a wider two lane road around a blind sweeping bend completely blocking one lane, the Police have been and told people not to park there but they still do. I get it though, they have better things to do than deal with entitled middle class parents
Hot take: Some people are twats
The main road I live off has a school on & the parents turn up anywhere from an hour & half before the end just to get as close as possible to the gates, right next door to the school is a sports centre with free parking that’s usually half empty.
Is it me or is there no driveway and no dropped curb either?
Same problem when our kids were in primary school, it was utter madness, completely blocking the road. Must have been terrible for the people living nearby.
There were also parents who would park close to the school gates and sit there with their engines running for 10 minutes, so kids waiting for the school gates to open had to breath in the fumes. Some of them really don’t give a shit about anybody, not even their own children’s friends.
There was a large, free car park about 50m from the school, hardly anybody used it. People even parked illegally on the road leading to the free car park, making it difficult to get in and out, rather than just using the car park. Walking an extra few metres was just too much trouble for them.
I had a beauty on the first day of school back after summer holidays. Its a junior school and this lady wanted everyone going into school see her white Evoque, and therefore know she was a “Boss Lady”.
Well, as she pulled over my drive as I’m backing my shitbox golf off there – yes my reverse lights were on, full visibility and lovely and sunny – I had to stop and tell her she couldn’t get her little angel out as I’m off to work. There were a lot of parents walking by with their kids too.
She asked me where she could park then, because she needed to go to work too.
I said “anywhere but here, you thick cunt, because this red golf will be in the fucking side of that (pointing to the white Evoque) within the next 30 seconds…..” and just got back in my car.
She didn’t really have a lot of choice but to leave at that point as I was slowly inching off my drive. The other parents were very happily waiting at the edge of my driveway and waving me out, with smiles on their faces too.
I know I shouldn’t swear infront of children, but I never saw that lady again, and the other folk will all remember her as the “stupid cunt” – hopefully cutting down any more entitledness she might have started displaying in the future.
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A perfect opportunity for the council to post few traffic wardens to issue tickets and improve the finances, instead they do nothing.
I used to live oppoya primary school. Was absolute carnage most mornings with parents **having** to drive right up to the gate, rather than parking a street or two away and walking the last tiny bit.
School were utterly useless in dealing with it was well.
We used to live on the same road as a primary school, and I can confirm that parents are selfish arseholes.
The trouble is that the day they’re running a bit late to collect their kids, they block your driveway. They think it’s okay because there’s nowhere else to park, and they’ll only be 10 minutes… until they get talking to that mum from the PTA meetings in the playground.
They don’t seem to realise that someone else blocked it this morning. Another parent did it yesterday, two more the day before that, etc.
We’ve had parents park in our driveway while we were out, to go to parents evening. The fucking liberty.
I sympathise with her.
I work in a house (social care) that is very close to a primary school. The road is a permit only road due to it being neat a tram stop. When does permit parking end? That’s right, 3pm. A nice half an hour before kicking out time when they alluring there cars up the road at once. Worse thing is is that it’s a cul-de-sac so it just grids up. If I need to take my client out around that time we just can’t go, it’s too much of a shit show.
Unfortunately School run parents seem to be the most entitled road users out there.
We used to live on a cul de sac not far from a very picturesque church that was very popular for weddings. The road would get very heavily parked up with guests, and often it would be very hard to get out of the driveway because of cars parking either side of it, or on the other side of the road. On really bad days, some twerp would straight up just park across the drive and naff off to the church for an hour or two. People are just unbelievable.
Typical lazy and selfish and ignorant drivers. Stop making nonessential car journeys and walk or take public transport.
I lived in Europe for a few years and school buses picked the kids up early and took them to school
Worked fine
Just seems like another symptom of the threadbare nature of the english state setting parents desperate to get to work against harassed householders around the school in some sort of lord of the flies scenario
The tories always like to keep us plebs fighting like a bucket of crabs, while they take bribes for home decoration and give their donors PPE contracts
We wonder why we have an obesity problem meanwhile we bend over backwards for people driving what is often a very walkable journey
They’re a fckn nightmare when commuting to work as well. When school is out the roads are less than half as busy and a decent drive.
How far are people living from schools then? I walked 30 mins to and from school every day, so did most kids I knew, seems like everyone is getting a lift these days, add on top the amount of extra people + cars in the country whilst schools and roads remain the same… uk is not built for this many people to be here
I used to be forced away from a bus stop by people parking on the school run. I’d be stood next to the pole waiting to go to work and they just reverse up to me slowly and keep going and dont stop until I move. I’d always end up 3-4 cars away from the actual bus stop because of the wall of cars parked all 4 wheels on the pavement, heaven forbid they have to walk for 60 seconds to pick up their children
This shit is so common.
Im lucky because i dont really go out or come home during school times, but im normally in.
Car on the drive, car on the road, they will still park in front of my drive. For the exact reasons posted in this article i dont even bother going out there.
For me its just not worth the aggro, go out and complain when i dont need to go anywhere, but i shouldnt even be put in this situation.
I imagine this happens up and down the country regular, school parents and parking are the most inconsiderate things you’l see. Some people are so entitled they will literally park outside the school on red lines or white zig zags.
Neighbours used to do it when I was a kid, my dad thrashed the cunt and it never happened again.
Ah the late 90s.
I saw someone block someone else’s driveway during a school run. What they did was to park close enough so that getting out was a lot more difficult due to the close proximity between the two cars that the car was sandwiched in between.
People are right C***t’s these days because there’s next to no punishment for being one.
Driving standards have gone to shit. I see police daily drive past people on their phones whilst driving. Just a few days ago I watched a policeman bomb it no lights and no signals around and off a roundabout.
There’s a bus lane near me that literally always gets full of cars at around 4:30-530pm and the police even fucking use it.
Imagine there was a “you fucking deserved that” law where if someone blocked your drive and swore at you infront of your kids you could give em a little slap and pop their tyres. And when presented in court they are told “you fucking deserved it”
Because i’ve got a lot of slaps to hand out lately i can tell you lol
I find that almost all disputes of this nature can be solved with the help of a bucket of nails from Wickes and some welly.
My mum recently moved from a sheltered bungalow that faced a primary school. There were about 30 bungalows and around 8 spaces for parking. It was residential parking only and all the people who lived here were elderly and disabled – and it was clear from the design of the estate and properties that this was sheltered housing.
Every single day, morning and afternoon, you’d find the tiny car park absolutely RAMMED with about 30 cars. They’d park on the double yellows, they’d cram 6 cars into 4 spaces, they’d park up on the curb leaving no room for wheelchairs or mobility aids. They’d park in front of people’s drive and down the tiny single-lane road directly in front of the school. They’d park in front or behind residents cars blocking them in. This was a tiny cul-de-sac so the congestion caused serious issues and was dangerous.
It was a nightmare trying to get my mum in and out as she relies on mobility aids and can’t walk far.
One particular bad day we came home and found we could barely even get her car down the street due to cars. I had to sit there, hazards flashing, waiting for these parents to move. The school was maybe 10 meters away. I put her blue badge on display to make the point they were preventing disabled access.
The amount of dirty looks -I- got was ridiculous. Every one of these parents walking past me either couldn’t look at me at all, or glared at me. I glared right the fuck back.
I ended up complaining to the school and told them next time I’d be taking photos of license plates and forwarding them to both the council and the police to fine them. Not only was their parking dangerous, there were restrictions meaning they shouldn’t have been parked there at all.
Fair play to the school – the headmaster emailed back personally and was apologetic and said he sent out frequent letters to remind parents not to park but they ignored him.
The threat of the police seemed to work as for the next few weeks there wasn’t a single car parked there during the school run.
Thankfully my mum moved from that property around 6 weeks after (largely due to this issue) so no idea if it permanently resolved it.
What I don’t understand is why so many schools are built without dedicated pick up/drop of points. Granted if the school is decades old I’d understand, but the school I’m talking about was no later than 20 years old. We knew 20 years ago how heavily we relied on cars so why are new schools not mandated to have parent parking?
I just see so much dangerous, inconsiderate parking whenever it’s school drop off/kick out time and it pisses everyone off.
I’d get a license to clamp cars, put a big fuck off sign warning that cars will be clamped and release fee is 500 squid, and make bank
Just start letting down peoples tires,
They’ll get the message
I live in a small close knit town just over the road from one primary school, but my kids go to another one on the other side of town (we walk). The amount of shit parking, dangerous driving and general chaos I see at both schools is absolutely ridiculous, and the vast majority of parents live no more than a 10 minute walk away. Absolutely boggles my mind.
These people are assholes, but in mitigation, the school run is stressful, because you have to do it, you are terrified of being late, there’s no parking near schools, and you are desperate to find somewhere in a short time slot.
Why don’t we just prevent all this shit and have school buses in this country? To see how much traffic it would alleviate, just look at the roads in holiday time compared to term time.
If we had state-run, not for profit services like this, people would lap them up. Instead, the only buses provided have to make a huge profit for some shareholder or other, so it’s prohibitively expensive for those that might want to use it.
Off topic, but it feels like it’s only been in the past few years that more people have started calling it a ‘driveway’ instead of a ‘drive’.
I get this a lot to. It’s infuriating when they ignore the two car parks directly opposite my house and decide my driveway is the only place they can stop – not even either side of it. They always seem surprised when they get shouted at if I’m reversing off the drive at the moment they decide to stop directly being me, which happens a lot.
Must be a nightmare for you, just realised that’s the street behind that giant school on Stockport Road isn’t it?
All I’m saying is if this happened to me, a masked ninja would appear and put a brick through the guys window before disappearing.
It would be awfully inconvenient for them.
There is a spray called liquid ass. Just spray at the bottom of the windscreen where the car draws air in. The word will soon go round, “don’t park there, you’ll get ass sprayed”. Best thing is there is no provable damage to any cars.
Chuck a petrol bomb at the entitled cunts. Watch the abuse stop 🙂
You can get a very cheap and small tool that attaches onto your keyring for breaking car windows in case of emergency
It’s the fact that these parents drive in the first place.
Our local primary is oversubscribed and has a catchment of less than 1k in most directions. We live in one of the furthest out houses in catchment, and walk them there and back every day – it’s about 1200m each way, entirely on off-road paths. One road to cross.
Both my kids have friends whose houses we pass along the way, then we bump into them parking up, having driven 400 metres to drop the kids off. They just won’t walk.
Schools could definitely do more. I remember the walk to school appeal they did at one point, even sometimes encouraging walking part of the way and parking at a distance. Or, they could introduce staggered start and finish times for year groups like they did during covid so not all the cars are there at once. Or, have a larger window of time in which kids can be dropped off so there isn’t this manic rush because parents need to get to work.
We really need a crackdown on on street parking in the UK. The way we do things now is practically third world.
Sadly I can see this being a politically difficult challenge with not many realising the level of the problem and being interested in tackling it whilst the auto lobby would be screaming murder at even moderate reforms.
Let’s just dream of the Japanese system.
Just ban cars near schools at pickup drop-off time it would make entire areas safer and people less like to be fucking cunts. the road near me that has a school on it become incredibly dangerous around pickup drop-off time parents racing around in big 4x4s not looking at all of where they’re going I’m amazed that no parent and or child has been killed yet
My Mums old house was next to my old primary school. Parking there was insane. I distinctively remember my grandad actually bumping into one car to prove a point. I used to sit there holding the horn down on my motorbike until they moved and would then park my car there.
I get this all the time.
My council are just not interested.
Happens in leafy little villages too, I live on a road where parents queue in cars to drop kids off at the village primary school. Our neighbour got abuse from a school governor, who blocked their driveway, when they asked them to move
Neighbour the other side also got into an argument with a parent who said it was her fault for living near a school and they should have known what to expect
They even park along a wider two lane road around a blind sweeping bend completely blocking one lane, the Police have been and told people not to park there but they still do. I get it though, they have better things to do than deal with entitled middle class parents
Hot take: Some people are twats
The main road I live off has a school on & the parents turn up anywhere from an hour & half before the end just to get as close as possible to the gates, right next door to the school is a sports centre with free parking that’s usually half empty.
Is it me or is there no driveway and no dropped curb either?
Same problem when our kids were in primary school, it was utter madness, completely blocking the road. Must have been terrible for the people living nearby.
There were also parents who would park close to the school gates and sit there with their engines running for 10 minutes, so kids waiting for the school gates to open had to breath in the fumes. Some of them really don’t give a shit about anybody, not even their own children’s friends.
There was a large, free car park about 50m from the school, hardly anybody used it. People even parked illegally on the road leading to the free car park, making it difficult to get in and out, rather than just using the car park. Walking an extra few metres was just too much trouble for them.
I had a beauty on the first day of school back after summer holidays. Its a junior school and this lady wanted everyone going into school see her white Evoque, and therefore know she was a “Boss Lady”.
Well, as she pulled over my drive as I’m backing my shitbox golf off there – yes my reverse lights were on, full visibility and lovely and sunny – I had to stop and tell her she couldn’t get her little angel out as I’m off to work. There were a lot of parents walking by with their kids too.
She asked me where she could park then, because she needed to go to work too.
I said “anywhere but here, you thick cunt, because this red golf will be in the fucking side of that (pointing to the white Evoque) within the next 30 seconds…..” and just got back in my car.
She didn’t really have a lot of choice but to leave at that point as I was slowly inching off my drive. The other parents were very happily waiting at the edge of my driveway and waving me out, with smiles on their faces too.
I know I shouldn’t swear infront of children, but I never saw that lady again, and the other folk will all remember her as the “stupid cunt” – hopefully cutting down any more entitledness she might have started displaying in the future.