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Plenty of people complain about school run mums and their selfish attitudes but I'd like to gripe about a particular type of school run mum, the ones that drop their kids of at private schools.
On my 19 mile drive to work I pass 6 different schools so I leave 15-20 minutes earlier than I would need to at any other time of the day to account for getting stuck behind the school buses. Notwithstanding this I always hit the junction where there is a large private school at around 08:45 am. Prime dropping off time.
The turning into the school is roughly in the middle of a 500 yard straight section of road, but this doesn't stop the mums that have dropped their little angels off from pulling right out in front of you as if they never saw you.
They don't even have the decency to pretend that they never saw you, they see you coming, wait till your close enough that they can look you in the eye and then just pull out! I think they assume they have right of way because they drive a big 4x4 or a BMW and can afford to send their children to private school. They're such ignorant people!
I wouldn't mind so much if they pulled out and sped off with their big engines, but no, they cause you brake hard enough to bang your head on the steering wheel and then your stuck behind them puttering along at 35-40 mph because they don't have a job to get to. Its not just one mum either, its all of them and it only happens at that school, not the other half dozen schools that I pass on my way to work. All my neighbours that use that route to work also complain about them, but we are at a loss as to what can be done about them!
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Come on kid, you are giving the impression that you are driving rather than that mummy was dropping you off at the expensive private school.
You know I got to 48 before I became grouchy; you are much too young to be so critical of other people and so pessimistic in your outlook.
As you have frequently told everyone that you are 14 , what I would expect is that you would not be driving.
I agree with Biker Hater, methinks the author or authoress of this article has a ruddy great tree on their shoulder !!
LouiseR : I drive a Micra !! I will not have her insulted !! I live in the country, am very horsey and doggie, and certainly am not averse to getting my car muddy. In fact, as I type, she is sitting out on my drive covered in mud because she has not been washed for about 6 months. I don't see the point washing cars, I really don't. All the horse **** and mud protects the paintwork from bird **** and salt on the roads.
How can you say no-one aspires to have a Micra - I do !! They are fab cars (the new shape, not the old I have to say). She turns on a sixpence, does 48 to the gallon, I can squeeze her in anywhere, the insurance is dirt cheap, she has an intelligent key so even if anyone broke into the car, they couldn't start her up and drive her away. I am a HUGE Micra fan, and accuse YOU Louise of being Micra-ist !!
private education sucks
There are incompetent drivers in all cars, I can really see no reason why people pick on 4x4s, other than that they are conspicuous. In my experience of driving on narrow roads, I would MUCH rather meet a 4x4 driver, who generally has the sense and ability to pull up the bank if they need to than anyone else.
That's fine, I don't think any reasonable person would object to that.
Here are a couple of possibly hypothetical questions. Do you use it to go to Sainsburys or to drive on the narrow streets in your local village? Do you use it to drop your children in the street outside their schools?
If you do, then you are the type of person that generates complaints that you are reading about.
Fred E