The school run

[flatandy]

What the f**k**g f**k is it about people who drive their kids to school in London that makes them so arrogant, so retarded and so f**k**g incompetent as drivers?

What possesses someone to think that it's OK to park their car bang in the middle of a narrow road, because little Emma has to go to school.

Or to park in the "Keep Clear" yellow zig-zags outside the school, so Jack can get in? Do you park there because you think the road is too dangerous for him to walk down? Perhaps there's a reason for that. It's because arrogant retards like you park in the yellow zig-zags which means people can't cross the road safely.

Why do you think it's reasonable to drive straight through a red-light into a traffic jam, leaving yourself in the cross-hatchings, so the traffic going across the junction can't move, holding up 2 or 3 full bus loads of people? Because poor little Gareth is going to be late for his pre-school club?

Fucknuts, the lot of them.

But, I wonder, is it arrogance and stupidity that makes them drive; or is it driving that makes them arrogant and stupid. I reckong the former. Anyone who thinks their kids need to be driven to school in London is clearly an idiot of the highest order. The only reason people will do it is because either they're scared their child might be damaged if he walks to school - stupid and arrogant; or they've chosen a posh school miles and miles from where they live, and this is London with posh schools every half mile - so no need for that; or they feel they need to drive to work, and will force their kid to miss the little exercise and company they'd get being walked to school by their parents. Which is arrogant and stupid again.

I think, basically, the kind of people who think they need to drive their kids to school are already arrogant and stupid and deserve to have their skin peeled from them and then dumped in a vinegar bath, and that's why the driving is so astonishingly, horribly, arrogant, stupid and bad, around schools in London. Particularly in the posher corners of London.

[luckysprite]

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[policecar]

have you considered counselling?

[flatandy]

I've considered buying a chainsaw, PC, if that counts.

[policecar]

you have deep seated 'issues' that need resolving - I recommend therapy and some time spent in the salt mines

[flatandy]

Will there be bendy buses or parents on the school run in the salt mines? If not, I'm on my way.

[ricklinc]

I'm guessing that your parents just used to kick you out the door to find you own way to school. Perhaps you could forgive them in time.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Feb 11, 2009 9:39:16 GMT flatandy said:

What the f**k**g f**k is it about people who drive their kids to school in London that makes them so arrogant, so retarded and so f**k**g incompetent as drivers?

Anyone who drives in London in rush hour is arrogant and retarded. Anyone who drives their kids to schools within walking distance is arrogant and retarded.

[flatandy]

Before I was about 7 or 8, my mum walked me to school. Took all of about 20 minutes for her. After that I walked, myself, or used the bus. Until I was, what, about 12 or 13, when it was either bus or bike. I think I was driven to school maybe 3 or 4 times in the 14 years I went to school.

I would think that was true for most people, no?

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Seriously though, how much nicer would London be if cars were just banned in it? Anywhere inside the North Circ.

[unclejunior]

lardy.i,m guessing that you don t have kids!!
you are of course about central london parents ,particularly the fee payers who often only have to get the gym after the drop off,add to the fact that lots of them drive their spouses 4x4s and have no conception how to steer them or how wide they are.........
youre also right about "years gone by".... i also travelled across london for my schooling & it was unheard of for a parent to "drop off or pick up".
in fact ,actively taxing parents for doing this would improve transport enormously .
any ideas of a "real"way of achieving this???

[flatandy]

Yep. I don't have kids. But yes, I'm talking about central London parents - almost all fee paying central London parents, who drive 4x4s or large people mover things, who really, really don't know how to drive them, and who really have no reason at all to drive them to school.

[gaia]

I was driven to school by my dad. In my (his) defence, the school was 20 miles away from home, it was a private school, and there were no school buses from anywhere near our village. Also Dad worked round the corner from the school, so actually drove us to his work, from where we walked. Also, more often than not, we were at school about 1/2 hour early, because dad didn't like getting held up in the rush hour.


At primary school I walked round the village to school I noticed with some dismay last time we were at mum's that an awful lot of parents in the small village now drive their kids the 200 yards from house to school.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

People who drive 200 yards should be shot, no questions asked.

[tarrant]

Banning all private vehicles from central London would be an excellent idea.

[mids]

Why not just ban London? I mean, what use is it?

[Libby]

My youngest son walks to school, it's only round the corner. The trouble is that the children who do make the effort to walk cannot cross the roads as the traffic is gridlocked from way beyond our house right up to the school entrance with all the parents living within close proximity jamming the traffic system. This makes it so dangerous for the walking kids to cross the roads safely and get to school with the shunting of cars and beeping horns, swearing by drivers etc. Horrendous before and after school!

I reckon a red mist comes over drivers doing the school run, they really turn into foul-mouthed ignorant peasants most of them!

[tarrant]

Feb 11, 2009 9:52:42 GMT VikingHumpingWitch said:

Anyone who drives in London in rush hour is arrogant and retarded. Anyone who drives their kids to schools within walking distance is arrogant and retarded.

I have to agree with that VHW.

I am also bound to observe that if I had made those comments I would have a certain Scandanavian resident saying I was pontificating.

Double standards seemingly knows no linits.

Some rant aboout being green while driving 4x4s in London while others rant about anyone they disagree with pontificating while laying down final commands for the people.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

No, if you had made those comments I would be agreeing with you. Albeit whilst picking myself up off the floor in shock that you'd actually managed to get something right.

[moggyonspeed]

Andy - this ain't just a London thing.

I live in Hampshire, which is OK, but I work in Surrey, and the moment you cross the county boundary, you are faced suddenly with a whole phalanx of bitches in their 4 x 4s dropping off Samantha and Jack at kindergarten. Parking actually IN the main road, AROUND corners, and blocking junctions is par for the course for these c*cks*ckers who, having now successfully married into the money, probably don't do the sucking anymore anyway.

B*st*rds. FROAD, the lot of 'em.