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Posted: Monday February 6th, 2006 18:50 |
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Greetings Everyone,
OK we do it every day.....on the way there....and back we must have so many untold madness just to make it on time LOL.
Like the woman that decided to block up a one way road because she was frightened to pull out when she had the right of way ....clocks ticking times passing...children are asking what'sup because we're late already but several beeps and all kinda road rage from the newly formed queue.....she moves...your turn!
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Posted: Monday February 6th, 2006 19:06 |
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Maat: do you mean like the time my partner and I cocked up the arrangements for picking up the little ones..She thought i was picking them up..I thought she was, in the end we left them in the school...
Come 6pm I'm having a heartattacking, rushing to school, no children there, no one knows where they are...Head pounding thinking that Social service gone wid mi pickney dem...and trying to come with an explanation as to how i managed to forget them...
After an hour of searching and ringing round..I tracked my children down at some after school club.........oh the shame...
Last edited on Monday February 27th, 2006 07:55 by Kunjufu
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Posted: Monday February 6th, 2006 20:57 |
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This is the first time I've ever done the school run.....
Just last week I drove past a space, and was putting the car into reverse when this man coming from the opposite way completely ignored me and took the space! I beeped and beeped, but he continued parking anyway.
I left my car in the middle of the road, banged on his window and told him in no uncertain terms that I was reversing into the space. This was helped by another mother shouting "damn right - is fe she space dat"!
He couldn't move fast enough.....
I actually feel sorry for anyone living near a school. People pay no nevermind to the dropped kerbs, and people STILL park on the zigzags...I cussed a mother last week (again!) who was reversing while I was trying to cross the road with the buggy!
These people have no manners.
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Posted: Tuesday February 7th, 2006 14:57 |
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Lady Vee..you know your right..having a house next to or close to a School would be a nightmare.... What gets me sometimes is that people use their car, and they virtually live around the flippin corner to the school....
Or worse they insist on parking virtually by the bloody school gates..
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Posted: Tuesday February 7th, 2006 16:11 |
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The last time i did the school run (took a sickie) the lollipop man decided to wave the kids across the road whilst i was reversing and i nearly ended up hitting 2 of them!!!
Of course i got an earful from all parents, never again!
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Posted: Tuesday February 7th, 2006 17:48 |
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I wish I could contribute to this thread as it sounds like a lot of stress and fun
My time will come
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Posted: Wednesday February 8th, 2006 10:57 |
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You guys don't know how much I need this vent I live on a road with a school and it's crazy.
One time I'm driving up my road and I have off street parking, I get to my house and all entrances are blocked I'm pissed. My daughter like ma ma i need to go pee. And theres mad parents 3 point turnin and stopped all over the place. I wait 20 miuntes for this idiot to come back to his car.
I approach him and I'm like listen you can't park here and he looks at me and looks away. You need to move this is an entrance. He says ask me nicely and i'll move. At that point I was like you shouldn't have parked here in the first place I not gonna ask you nicely for nothing. He replies I'll move when I'm good and ready theres no signs to say I can park here. (it's a dipped curb and blatantly an entrance)
I was vex I put my hazzards on in the middle of the street and blocked his car in 
I said he didn't care and how I'm more effected because my kids are in the car and I have to wait, at that point i proceeded to take my kids and there stuff out of the car and take them indoors. The look on his face  and some of the parents clappin shoutin good on you girl didn't help matters!
I told him when he apologises I will tell him out he was there for about five miuntes with his dutty children in the car before he calls me a f**king black b**ch and drives all over the curb to get out.
Needless to say he now walks to pick up his unclean children
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Posted: Wednesday February 8th, 2006 16:37 |
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Good on you, Kamkam.
However, note this:
Parking your vehicle on someone else's land without their permission amounts to trespass.
The dropped kerb is YOUR land. If you get the boundary plans for your property you will see it clearly noted, so anyone that parks there is trespassing.
The police can (and do when there aren't any muggers/rapists/murderers to catch (!)) issue a parking ticket for this violation.
Just so you know......
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Posted: Wednesday February 8th, 2006 17:37 |
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@All: Boooyyy it's pure stress but I have to laugh. What makes me laugh most though is the mad rush you see when you get there almost late and all the parents and children are running like it's the family sports day. Trust if you ever want to see a child levitate check out the school run LMAO!!
@Cash: Tek time brother...take time
@Kunjufu: Looks like I gotta hold my hands up to parking outside the gates. Well it's only for a few minutes
@LadyVee:Thanks for that legal info....as for the parking tickets well......
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Posted: Wednesday February 8th, 2006 20:00 |
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And you know what if i wasn't so mad I would take the plate number and report those fools. the school run is some serious sh*t we laugh now but I've seen nuff children inches form being run over and that aint funny.
Theres a mini round about at the bottom of my road I'm not the right this lady doesn't give way to me. I'm like what ever the stops about ten metres up the road cos everywheres blocked up and then starts reversing. I'm beepin like a crazy woman and cos shes shouch as hell, she aint listening and some woman has to run in the road and grab this little girl.
Now I find something to do after school so I don't have to deal with that sh*t.
Picture this school run in the snow! I live on a hill it's all about parking way off road. 
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Posted: Thursday February 9th, 2006 07:46 |
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Maat,
Sorry Sis, but parking outside the gates ain't on!
The zigzags are there to allow you, the driver, time to stop if a child runs into the road. If cars are parked there, both the driver's and child's vision is blocked.
I couldn't live with myself if a child was injured (or worse) because I couldn't be bothered to park somewhere else.....
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Posted: Thursday February 9th, 2006 21:40 |
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@LadyVee: True...better fix that one up...sorry fellow parents
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Posted: Sunday February 26th, 2006 21:23 |
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@All: How are your school runs going? Did you manage to get a break over the half term?
Well my school run is now the school walk! The car broke down just before the half term  ...but it was a blessing in disguise. I've turned the walk into one of my little excercise routines there and back. My daughter and I have been in stitches just at me trying to keep up with her LOL.
One thing I did though was pay more attention to the road around the school. It's caos. There are 6 spaces outside the school and they're taken up by the residents who have not been desgnated spaces because there's only side to park on....the school side. The road blocks are a daily thing and way past the school too
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Posted: Monday February 27th, 2006 07:49 |
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Maat,
I can't wait for the weather to get warmer so I can walk Junior No 1 to school. It's too cold now, and not fair on Junior No 2 (although he sleeps anyway!).
I'm just waiting for the first report of murder at the school gates because someone took a parking space/parked on a dropped kerb/parked on the zigzags and a child got hurt - it's gonna happen!!!
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Posted: Monday February 27th, 2006 09:34 |
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Maat wrote: @All: How are your school runs going? Did you manage to get a break over the half term?
Well my school run is now the school walk!
You just keep coming out with them if you can walk to school you should otherwise it's just lazy. I drive to school because would be a 45 minute walk away. I do park five miunte walk from the school jusy so there is less traffic around the school gates.
Driving to school when you don't need to is lazy and selfish. Everyone should walk diffinetly in the summer!
Are you going to walk from now on or park a little way from the school Maat?
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Posted: Monday February 27th, 2006 12:32 |
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@LadyVee: The weather is mad. Did you see the snow the other day I look forward to the summer too. We have to go through a big park so it will be good to let the children go in there for a while after school too. Wouldn't mind a little go on the swing and seesaw me self LOL.
@kamkam: It's alright to walk if it isn't far away. I had to drive more with the first school we went to as we couldn't get her into the local ones we applied for. Also being soon to have baby it was well needed because she was closer to family who could pick her up when either me or daddy couldn't get her. It was so stressful getting used to the routine of three and getting up so early whether sleepless night or not. It didn't help on days we did get late having the secretary telling us "well you knew where the school was when you applied"....and they had the cheek to try and make us stay with the school when we told them we were leaving. I'm telling you sometimes a little compassion can go a long way.
We have the nursery and school run to do which are in completely different directions but still local which is the main thing. The more running around you have the closer you need everything to be.
Parking away from the school is usually best. They have finally started to take cars away from the spaces that have been sitting there for ages illegally. Hopefully the situation will get better soon.
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Posted: Thursday March 2nd, 2006 16:44 |
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To Maat, thats cool. Outside my school they have started giving parking tickets to parents that park on the yellow lines.
I hate it when members of staff in the school are rude it gets on my bloody nerves. The school run is hectic and stressful I hate it because I actually live on a road with a school. Atfer I pick my daughter up from nursery I have to think of something to do so I don't meet the school rush when I get home. I honestly dont think I could copr doing more than one school. I've put my son down for the same school so I can stay saine.
The best thing to do is try and keep enough time so you dont have to rush. I found out that the times when I run around crazy saying were going be late, i dont actually get places and quicker than if I slow down a bit. I think the schools runs are just generally stressful. So dont take it personally what I said sometimes I can be a miserable cow
Congrats on the baby and good luck with the birth 
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