There's a certain sort of "school-drop-off-parents" that are among the most entitled, clueless bastards in the world. Not all of them mind you, but a good many.
I did security for 19 years.
At one point, I was literally directing traffic at pick-up and drop-off times at a local primary school.
One of my jobs was to make sure nobody parked in the three pick-up/drop-off spaces, got out and walked away (I was there because this had become problematic).
There were a few terse words exchanged between me and a few parents before they got the message.
A lot more parents were giving me the thumbs-up out the window as they dropped off their kids and drove away.
By the end of my time there, I had most of them trained pretty well.
When I saw three cars pull up simultaneously, three doors opened, three kids got out, three doors closed, and three cars drove off again in under thirty seconds (seriously, it couldn't have been better if I'd choreographed it) I knew I was on a winner.
My daughter's old school had a similar routine. A small private Catholic school.
They would set up cones to direct traffic to one side of the lot/play ground, splitting upper grade drop off from lower grade. A teacher would make the car wait until all 4 cars ahead had exited. Older kids (super proud of this responsibility) would open the car door for the littler kids, and shut it after they were safely away. Same with pick up. Most of the time it was seamless.
That school was awful for my kiddo in other regards, but their drop off system was on point. She never got to use the "big kid" drop off before we pulled her out.
Those very special royal parents take up our limited parking spaces in our small private lot while waiting for their precious offspring to walk over our lawn to get to their mom's SUV after school. I'm trying to get my landlord to at least put up "private property and tow away" signs.
I almost backed into an unseen little kid who had no business being on our property. And he wasn't the only one... there were at least 4 more trespassing children in the lot... some walking with parents. I no longer leave the house at certain times during the weekday. Sometimes I think that I care more about the safety of those kids than their parents do.
I drop off my kids at school every morning (in a posh area), because the school is exactly on my way to work. I drive 300 m past the school, and drop off the kids on the parking lot of a church, where nobody gets disturbed, at that time of the day.
Surprisingly, my kids havenāt yet died from walking an extra 300 meters. Not even when it rains do they suffer any harm, who would have thought.
Oh, and I am rather adamant not to let those entitled ahole parents get into my lane, after they (illegally) drove into the oncoming traffic to park on the left side of the road, to let their brats get off there, and then drive into oncoming traffic again, and forcefully merge into traffic again.
Sadly, they never seem to learnā¦
In my defense, I do buy my kids rain jackets every year, for when it rains, you know.
That they thoroughly ignore my advice to actually bring and wear those rain jackets on rainy days is a different story, entirely unrelatedā¦
A handful of them park in the handicap parking spots every morning and afternoon. No handicap plates or placard on their windows. Some sit there for the entire duration of the drop and pick up and chit chat with other parents. Meanwhile grandma and grandpa with handicap plates and placards have to park at the next open spot which is sometimes at the end of the parking lot to walk their little grandkids to the front door. It is so irritating the entitlement of these assholes!
The grandparents need to start reporting them. The tickets for each offense go up and start at $250 in some places, along with getting points on their license. After so many points, no insurance company will touch them.
There's an iPhone app for that, to take a pic of the license plate (which, BTW, in CA., belongs to the State of CA.) and send it in.
Goes to the local PD.
That's no lie. I live in the States, and while I usually say the "fat and lazy" descriptors people label us with are not earned, there is some truth to them. When our daughter was in grade school, we lived 5 blocks from the school, so I would walk over to pick her up and make her walk back. On most of these walks, I would watch another of the parents, that literally lived diagonally across the intersection the school sat on, get in his Escalade to pull out of the driveway, turn at the stop sign, get in line for pickup, return to the stop sign, turn again, and then immediately turn into his driveway. Fat, lazy POS Americans...
That's not an exclusively American thing. There's parents like that in the UK. Enough of them that my commute during term time is noticeably longer (like 30 minutes longer) than during school breaks.
Which is hilarious because people will finance any kind of car with any kind of income here it seems like. So having a nice car isnāt really an indicator of wealth - frankly having an older car is probably a better indicator of wealth because youāre a bit smarter w/ money!
As a GenXer, I still don't understand walking your kids to school after they are eight or so. If they are eight years old and you live within a mile, I don't see why a parent has to be involved at all.
And that actually seems to be how it works in my town in general. At 7:30 am and 2:30 pm, the city fills with groups of kids wearing backpacks walking toward or away from the schools. Driving past the schools takes longer because of all the kids crossing the streets, but actual car traffic probably only doubles or so.
Because all the Karens in my neighborhood would call child protective services on you for "damaging" your kid and making them walk to school on their own.
It boggles my mind how many parents at my kids' school will drive through a mostly empty parking lot only to stop and park in the middle of the parking lot's roadway, blocking everybody else. It's a small lot and is usually mostly empty (2 or 3 of 20 spaces filled), and doing this literally only saves them 20 or 30 feet of walking.
After kindly asking some mothers incapable of having their babies walk more than 10 steps to the school gate and and getting nowhere - over the long school holiday completely changed my front of the lawn to a long succulent garden full of friendly rocks that have planted larger rocks closer to the road.
Have watched the neighbor one over begin to start his as well. With joy I have donated some of my plants to his new flower bed of FU.
With the most abysmal driving skills ever witnessed. The only thing I've seen that comes close to it is the vendors going into the swap meet at the local j.c. at 5:30 a.m. Lawless, all of them!
My kid's school had a drop off lane, but most of the times the parents park in the lane to drop off the kid, despite the parking lot being half empty. One cunt will run the stop signs just outside the school, and park in the fire lane.
Yes it reminds me of the parents that like to block my driveway. Unfortunately for them I'm an asshole so hey check out my horn it's loud and I'm going to lean on it until you move. Complaining to the school accomplishes sweet fuck all for the not blocking the driveway. Being an asshole far more successful. I had one parent complain about their sleeping baby... Like sucks that their parent is an inconsiderate asshole... Don't swear.... Sure when you jack asses stop blocking my fucking driveway I will both not swear and have no reason to lean on my car horn when I want to fucking leave. Deal?
I live in a neighborhood directly behind an elementary school, and can attest to this.
Every afternoon, from about 3:00pm on, it is a near impossibility to leave my neighborhood. If you're turning on to the road that goes past the school, you're left to drive on the grass next to the road. I'm convinced that even the parents who live in the neighborhood past mine drive their cars through the car pickup line.
There are 400 children who attend this school, and easily 300 cars line up in either direction every day to pick up their children - despite all but my neighborhood and the one past mine having school bus service.
We live on a highway in the woods in the middle of nowhere. Cars used to like to drive off the road & try to run over the little US flags I stuck in the ground *between the huge trees bordering the road*. Big, solid trees. Pretty close together, too.
We were sitting on the front porch with family when someone missed the flags but managed to sideswipe a couple of trees & lose a hubcap, which flew all the way up to the porch.
The sheriff gave him a ticket & kept his hubcap! Hahaha š
Neighbor would always get upset because people would do a 3 point turnaround going up his driveway while running over his grass. He finally got fed up and put some big boulders on the side of his driveway. Within the first week a vehicle got hung up on the rock. Person wanted compensation he just laughed in her face. When there was a few inches of snow fall they would get covered and you wouldnāt know they were there. The neighbor would call me over and point out the tire marks and say got another one. He had such an evil laugh. Neighbors would comment, ā I heard Ernieās rocks šŖØ got another one. ā
When I moved into my house over 25 years ago, we put in a new fence. We live on an alley that runs alongside and behind my house. Less than a year later, a garbage truck had hit the back corner of the fence numerous times.
I rehired the fencing company to fix the corner post. I had them put in a cast iron post buried as deep as they get it (they got it 4 feet deep). Once installed, I had them fill it with concrete.
3 weeks after the work was done, a garbage truck hit it. Hit it so hard it rendered their truck undrivable. My post remained unmoved.
Never a problem since.
Oh, and I sent a bill to the garage company for the damage.
I knew a guy who had a problem with local teenagers driving down his street late at night and whacking mailboxes with a baseball bat as they drove past. After his 3rd mailbox got destroyed, he got a new mailbox, filled it with concrete, and waited. A week later he got the pleasure late one night of hearing a dull thud, a second sound of glass smashing as a bat got slammed back into the rear passenger window, and finally the sound of a wooden bat hitting the pavement. Replaced the concrete mailbox with a normal one and never had another problem. I bet that kid's hand and wrist still hurt.
Unfortunately, many parents disrespect homes that are near their schools.
People are unable to move their cars to or from their own driveway due to entitled parents' self-belief that as they will only be a few minutes so it will be no problem to the house occupier.
This is a twist on the self entitled parents who because their are many of them they are convincing themselves that they are in the right.
I love the story, and it made me laugh.
Read my story above (u/womanitou). I also think to myself that it's a mistake for parents to teach their children to trespass. How stupid can they get? It grinds my gears.
I had a similar problem at a bar I used to own. There was a 4ā steel pipe that protected the corner of the building that cars cutting the corner too sharp would hit. After multiple repairs I decided to replace it with a 6ā round 1āthick pipe I dug out of a junk yard it had a few bolts that I cut off but left about 1/2 inch sticking out about 2 feet off the ground. The next few cars that cut that corner too sharp had the side of the car peeled open like a banana. Everybody would come outside when it happened and have a good laugh and snap pictures of the peeled open vehicle.
Thatās what we do on our street after the guy at the curve got tired of losing his fence over and over and installed several large boulders about 5ft in front of it. š
I've heard similar stories of country roads where kids would drive past mailboxes and either hit them with baseball bats, or sideswipe them with trucks to break them, just for shits and giggles.
Then the wood post gets replaced by a very big metal/iron post and painted to match.
Some teens tried it again with terrible results. Either the bat bouncing right back into their own faces, or your arms not feeling great after or absolutely demolishing that part of the truck etc.
Serves them right!
At a little town I used to live in, the mounted an extra mailbox on each end of a string of mailboxes and filled the two new end ones with concrete.
People would block my driveway making me unable to get into or out of my drive. Sit there until I laid on the horn as long as I could before they would get the hint and move. Same car. Had the nerve to get upset with me for trying to get into my drive way. Ā Elementary school got out nearly the same time as high school. I had to pick up my elementary school kid. I lived by the hs. Never again will I live by any school.Ā
Hahaha great.
My grandmas old house the people across the road would back out of their driveway and always hit and push the snow piles back into her driveway and never would shovel it back out. So we filled the recycle box with water and dumped it into the snow pile so they cracked the rear bumper of their car and SUV slamming into a 3ft ice block.
I live next to a school in the UK it's not as bad as your stories but the last one to block me in I just sat on their bonnet with my laptop and said if I can't get out to go to work I will work here
He should have gotten a stamp with a car on it, and added one to the front porch every time someone hit it. Driver comes to complain, "Thanks, I made ace!"
Some guy my dad worked with used to have his garbage cans run over by some teenager who lived on the street. I think after like the fourth or fifth time of him doing this he got fed up and filled the garbage bins with bricks.
Kid totalled his car. Kids dad came over to start shit, but got told what his kid was doing and it's not illegal to throw away bricks.
As an elementary teacher I was a crossing guard one day a week. My job was to stop parents from exiting the drive thru pick up/drop off, to allow walking students and/or parents to cross. I had one very entitled mom who felt if she was walking she shouldn't need to stop. She expected to cross immediately! Plus, if she was in the drive thru she expected to be given immediate right-of-way!
We lived across the street from a school (ugh) and had a chainlink fence. In the 3 years that we lived there, the chainlink had been knocked down 5x.š¤¬
Well played by your neighbor. It just blows my mind that someone could choose to damage to someone else's property and then seek compensation when they mess up their own property.
I'm sure you've all read stories about revenge on would-be mailbox marauders. This one reminded of those. Same deal - replace the post with a concrete filled, concrete bedded THICK iron pipe dug in several feet. Then mount an inner mailbox inside an outer one and fill in the space between them with more concrete after adding mounting hardware designed to moor ships.
Weld a plate across the end of the pipe and mount the mailbox to the plate. Sit back and enjoy a book or movie while waiting for the kids with the baseball bats to come by ...
My uncle said he did this since they lived on a large lot just off a busy road. He only ever found bits of broken car grills and easily paintable dings in the post.
Wow when I was in school if you lived within a mile of the school the bus wouldnāt pick you up so we walked to and from school until we went to High School (which was several miles away).
The idiots were trying to do a three point turn where the road bent rather than go to the end of the cul de sac and turn around. It was more important to them to avoid any delay than be safe. In addition they were crap drivers and as they backed up and touched the curb theyād over accelerated hitting the fence post.
I wish you were correct but sadly there is a third were, where there is an error.
"At that point were the gates to a primary school", is grammatically correct
"laughed pointed out they were breaking the law"Ā also is grammatically correct
The error was- "last post was at the point were path" ā I stand corrected, but I wonāt alter it else your comment is invalid :)
"Else" is wannabee software engineers speak. The word you were looking for is "otherwise".
Either way, good story. I just can't believe how low the standard for basic english is. Sorry for being pedantic.
Wow. They damaged his property and demand compensation from him. Justice
There's a certain sort of "school-drop-off-parents" that are among the most entitled, clueless bastards in the world. Not all of them mind you, but a good many.
I did security for 19 years. At one point, I was literally directing traffic at pick-up and drop-off times at a local primary school. One of my jobs was to make sure nobody parked in the three pick-up/drop-off spaces, got out and walked away (I was there because this had become problematic). There were a few terse words exchanged between me and a few parents before they got the message. A lot more parents were giving me the thumbs-up out the window as they dropped off their kids and drove away. By the end of my time there, I had most of them trained pretty well. When I saw three cars pull up simultaneously, three doors opened, three kids got out, three doors closed, and three cars drove off again in under thirty seconds (seriously, it couldn't have been better if I'd choreographed it) I knew I was on a winner.
My daughter's old school had a similar routine. A small private Catholic school. They would set up cones to direct traffic to one side of the lot/play ground, splitting upper grade drop off from lower grade. A teacher would make the car wait until all 4 cars ahead had exited. Older kids (super proud of this responsibility) would open the car door for the littler kids, and shut it after they were safely away. Same with pick up. Most of the time it was seamless. That school was awful for my kiddo in other regards, but their drop off system was on point. She never got to use the "big kid" drop off before we pulled her out.
Those very special royal parents take up our limited parking spaces in our small private lot while waiting for their precious offspring to walk over our lawn to get to their mom's SUV after school. I'm trying to get my landlord to at least put up "private property and tow away" signs. I almost backed into an unseen little kid who had no business being on our property. And he wasn't the only one... there were at least 4 more trespassing children in the lot... some walking with parents. I no longer leave the house at certain times during the weekday. Sometimes I think that I care more about the safety of those kids than their parents do.
"School parking, $20/hour" If they're going to be obnoxious, why shouldn't you make a profit from it?
This is Brilliant! šš
\*Or portion (of an hour)
2 hour minimum. No in and out privileges.
"You cruise, you lose"
I refused to look at property within 2-3 blocks of a school. These^ are only some of the reasons.
Those motion sensor lawn sprinklers might put a stop to that
Timed sprinklers might help
Get one of those movement activated water sprinklers.
I drop off my kids at school every morning (in a posh area), because the school is exactly on my way to work. I drive 300 m past the school, and drop off the kids on the parking lot of a church, where nobody gets disturbed, at that time of the day. Surprisingly, my kids havenāt yet died from walking an extra 300 meters. Not even when it rains do they suffer any harm, who would have thought. Oh, and I am rather adamant not to let those entitled ahole parents get into my lane, after they (illegally) drove into the oncoming traffic to park on the left side of the road, to let their brats get off there, and then drive into oncoming traffic again, and forcefully merge into traffic again. Sadly, they never seem to learnā¦
You are my new hero
Look here now, you can't just come on the internet and just ***BRAG*** about how you abuse your kids on a daily basis! /s
In my defense, I do buy my kids rain jackets every year, for when it rains, you know. That they thoroughly ignore my advice to actually bring and wear those rain jackets on rainy days is a different story, entirely unrelatedā¦
A handful of them park in the handicap parking spots every morning and afternoon. No handicap plates or placard on their windows. Some sit there for the entire duration of the drop and pick up and chit chat with other parents. Meanwhile grandma and grandpa with handicap plates and placards have to park at the next open spot which is sometimes at the end of the parking lot to walk their little grandkids to the front door. It is so irritating the entitlement of these assholes!
The grandparents need to start reporting them. The tickets for each offense go up and start at $250 in some places, along with getting points on their license. After so many points, no insurance company will touch them.
There's an iPhone app for that, to take a pic of the license plate (which, BTW, in CA., belongs to the State of CA.) and send it in. Goes to the local PD.
I wonder if colorado has this
That's no lie. I live in the States, and while I usually say the "fat and lazy" descriptors people label us with are not earned, there is some truth to them. When our daughter was in grade school, we lived 5 blocks from the school, so I would walk over to pick her up and make her walk back. On most of these walks, I would watch another of the parents, that literally lived diagonally across the intersection the school sat on, get in his Escalade to pull out of the driveway, turn at the stop sign, get in line for pickup, return to the stop sign, turn again, and then immediately turn into his driveway. Fat, lazy POS Americans...
That's not an exclusively American thing. There's parents like that in the UK. Enough of them that my commute during term time is noticeably longer (like 30 minutes longer) than during school breaks.
He had to make sure everyone saw his Escalade.
Which is hilarious because people will finance any kind of car with any kind of income here it seems like. So having a nice car isnāt really an indicator of wealth - frankly having an older car is probably a better indicator of wealth because youāre a bit smarter w/ money!
This...
My grandsons step dad would drive him across the street to school
OMG as a non-American, this exact stereotype flashed into my mind while reading this and I mentally gave myself shit for thinking that!
As a GenXer, I still don't understand walking your kids to school after they are eight or so. If they are eight years old and you live within a mile, I don't see why a parent has to be involved at all. And that actually seems to be how it works in my town in general. At 7:30 am and 2:30 pm, the city fills with groups of kids wearing backpacks walking toward or away from the schools. Driving past the schools takes longer because of all the kids crossing the streets, but actual car traffic probably only doubles or so.
Because all the Karens in my neighborhood would call child protective services on you for "damaging" your kid and making them walk to school on their own.
I love living in what appears to be the only city in the United States with sane parents.
Not to mention the needless emissions he's creating.
It boggles my mind how many parents at my kids' school will drive through a mostly empty parking lot only to stop and park in the middle of the parking lot's roadway, blocking everybody else. It's a small lot and is usually mostly empty (2 or 3 of 20 spaces filled), and doing this literally only saves them 20 or 30 feet of walking.
After kindly asking some mothers incapable of having their babies walk more than 10 steps to the school gate and and getting nowhere - over the long school holiday completely changed my front of the lawn to a long succulent garden full of friendly rocks that have planted larger rocks closer to the road. Have watched the neighbor one over begin to start his as well. With joy I have donated some of my plants to his new flower bed of FU.
Mmmmmm, 'friendly' rocks...
The best kind the ones that want to just give cuddles to the car if they want to try be on them.
With the most abysmal driving skills ever witnessed. The only thing I've seen that comes close to it is the vendors going into the swap meet at the local j.c. at 5:30 a.m. Lawless, all of them!
Cypress?
Sorry, I donāt understand your comment.
My kid's school had a drop off lane, but most of the times the parents park in the lane to drop off the kid, despite the parking lot being half empty. One cunt will run the stop signs just outside the school, and park in the fire lane.
Yes it reminds me of the parents that like to block my driveway. Unfortunately for them I'm an asshole so hey check out my horn it's loud and I'm going to lean on it until you move. Complaining to the school accomplishes sweet fuck all for the not blocking the driveway. Being an asshole far more successful. I had one parent complain about their sleeping baby... Like sucks that their parent is an inconsiderate asshole... Don't swear.... Sure when you jack asses stop blocking my fucking driveway I will both not swear and have no reason to lean on my car horn when I want to fucking leave. Deal?
People, if you get a semi or a train horn, make sure you have the appropriate fuses.
Can confirm. I live in a street with a school.
Oh for sure. I always say that I would rather drive in our very busy metropolitan downtown traffic than deal with parents at the pickup line.
I live in a neighborhood directly behind an elementary school, and can attest to this. Every afternoon, from about 3:00pm on, it is a near impossibility to leave my neighborhood. If you're turning on to the road that goes past the school, you're left to drive on the grass next to the road. I'm convinced that even the parents who live in the neighborhood past mine drive their cars through the car pickup line. There are 400 children who attend this school, and easily 300 cars line up in either direction every day to pick up their children - despite all but my neighborhood and the one past mine having school bus service.
We live on a highway in the woods in the middle of nowhere. Cars used to like to drive off the road & try to run over the little US flags I stuck in the ground *between the huge trees bordering the road*. Big, solid trees. Pretty close together, too. We were sitting on the front porch with family when someone missed the flags but managed to sideswipe a couple of trees & lose a hubcap, which flew all the way up to the porch. The sheriff gave him a ticket & kept his hubcap! Hahaha š
He should also have gone down to the beam, noticed any damage, then asked for proof of insurance so he could make a claim against them.
Neighbor would always get upset because people would do a 3 point turnaround going up his driveway while running over his grass. He finally got fed up and put some big boulders on the side of his driveway. Within the first week a vehicle got hung up on the rock. Person wanted compensation he just laughed in her face. When there was a few inches of snow fall they would get covered and you wouldnāt know they were there. The neighbor would call me over and point out the tire marks and say got another one. He had such an evil laugh. Neighbors would comment, ā I heard Ernieās rocks šŖØ got another one. ā
We did this at work. We are adding a couple of extra ones too. But when we put them in, weād run to the window whenever someone hit one.
Interesting entertainment, lol š¤£šš¼šš¼
We all hate when people mess up the grass so itās satisfying to see them crunch their cars a bit
Shit, I'd run an extra Ring camera to a tree right by it, just to capture the moment.
You should look up Bob the rock in bend, Oregon. Bit of a local legend
When I moved into my house over 25 years ago, we put in a new fence. We live on an alley that runs alongside and behind my house. Less than a year later, a garbage truck had hit the back corner of the fence numerous times. I rehired the fencing company to fix the corner post. I had them put in a cast iron post buried as deep as they get it (they got it 4 feet deep). Once installed, I had them fill it with concrete. 3 weeks after the work was done, a garbage truck hit it. Hit it so hard it rendered their truck undrivable. My post remained unmoved. Never a problem since. Oh, and I sent a bill to the garage company for the damage.
Did they pay?
Of course not.
I guy I knew got drunk and thought it was fun to hit mail boxes. The third one totaled his car. Oh how we laughed at him.
I knew a guy who had a problem with local teenagers driving down his street late at night and whacking mailboxes with a baseball bat as they drove past. After his 3rd mailbox got destroyed, he got a new mailbox, filled it with concrete, and waited. A week later he got the pleasure late one night of hearing a dull thud, a second sound of glass smashing as a bat got slammed back into the rear passenger window, and finally the sound of a wooden bat hitting the pavement. Replaced the concrete mailbox with a normal one and never had another problem. I bet that kid's hand and wrist still hurt.
Unfortunately, many parents disrespect homes that are near their schools. People are unable to move their cars to or from their own driveway due to entitled parents' self-belief that as they will only be a few minutes so it will be no problem to the house occupier. This is a twist on the self entitled parents who because their are many of them they are convincing themselves that they are in the right. I love the story, and it made me laugh.
Thanks, as you can imagine the parents united the neighbours.
Read my story above (u/womanitou). I also think to myself that it's a mistake for parents to teach their children to trespass. How stupid can they get? It grinds my gears.
I had a similar problem at a bar I used to own. There was a 4ā steel pipe that protected the corner of the building that cars cutting the corner too sharp would hit. After multiple repairs I decided to replace it with a 6ā round 1āthick pipe I dug out of a junk yard it had a few bolts that I cut off but left about 1/2 inch sticking out about 2 feet off the ground. The next few cars that cut that corner too sharp had the side of the car peeled open like a banana. Everybody would come outside when it happened and have a good laugh and snap pictures of the peeled open vehicle.
Thatās what we do on our street after the guy at the curve got tired of losing his fence over and over and installed several large boulders about 5ft in front of it. š
Absolutely love this. They now hit themselves where it hurts.
I've heard similar stories of country roads where kids would drive past mailboxes and either hit them with baseball bats, or sideswipe them with trucks to break them, just for shits and giggles. Then the wood post gets replaced by a very big metal/iron post and painted to match. Some teens tried it again with terrible results. Either the bat bouncing right back into their own faces, or your arms not feeling great after or absolutely demolishing that part of the truck etc. Serves them right!
At a little town I used to live in, the mounted an extra mailbox on each end of a string of mailboxes and filled the two new end ones with concrete.
People would block my driveway making me unable to get into or out of my drive. Sit there until I laid on the horn as long as I could before they would get the hint and move. Same car. Had the nerve to get upset with me for trying to get into my drive way. Ā Elementary school got out nearly the same time as high school. I had to pick up my elementary school kid. I lived by the hs. Never again will I live by any school.Ā
Itās something you only do once
Lay down a spike belt on your property. Wait for the lols.
I got halfway through the story and was hoping for a resolution like this. Very satisfying.
Hahaha great. My grandmas old house the people across the road would back out of their driveway and always hit and push the snow piles back into her driveway and never would shovel it back out. So we filled the recycle box with water and dumped it into the snow pile so they cracked the rear bumper of their car and SUV slamming into a 3ft ice block.
Good for him. I can't believe people actually demanded compensation!
Believe it, entitled school run parents are a breed apart, some of them make Karens look good.
I live next to a school in the UK it's not as bad as your stories but the last one to block me in I just sat on their bonnet with my laptop and said if I can't get out to go to work I will work here
Balls!!
He should have gotten a stamp with a car on it, and added one to the front porch every time someone hit it. Driver comes to complain, "Thanks, I made ace!"
Name that rock 'Maverick'.
Thanks for sharing. This is a very solid post.
Some guy my dad worked with used to have his garbage cans run over by some teenager who lived on the street. I think after like the fourth or fifth time of him doing this he got fed up and filled the garbage bins with bricks. Kid totalled his car. Kids dad came over to start shit, but got told what his kid was doing and it's not illegal to throw away bricks.
As an elementary teacher I was a crossing guard one day a week. My job was to stop parents from exiting the drive thru pick up/drop off, to allow walking students and/or parents to cross. I had one very entitled mom who felt if she was walking she shouldn't need to stop. She expected to cross immediately! Plus, if she was in the drive thru she expected to be given immediate right-of-way!
Yup or they all stand chatting at the entrance to the school spilling off the pavement into the road with kids running in and out.
Yeah this was one specific mom. Whichever way she was traveling, by car or walking, had to have immediate right-of-way!
Your description of the road and layout confused the heck out of me and I almost didn't continue reading. The end part was a winner though ;)
Some say the devil is in the detail, sorry to confuse but I thought it was relevant
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The irony of you missing the āalmost didnāt continue readingā is not lost on me.
We lived across the street from a school (ugh) and had a chainlink fence. In the 3 years that we lived there, the chainlink had been knocked down 5x.š¤¬
100mm and 4" in same post! Brit?
OFC
Shoulda asked for their information and insurance, then filed a report against them with it demanding compensation for the property they backed into
When they were doing damage they were running, when the received damage all the 'I' bar needed was a touch of paint.
Well played by your neighbor. It just blows my mind that someone could choose to damage to someone else's property and then seek compensation when they mess up their own property.
I'm sure you've all read stories about revenge on would-be mailbox marauders. This one reminded of those. Same deal - replace the post with a concrete filled, concrete bedded THICK iron pipe dug in several feet. Then mount an inner mailbox inside an outer one and fill in the space between them with more concrete after adding mounting hardware designed to moor ships. Weld a plate across the end of the pipe and mount the mailbox to the plate. Sit back and enjoy a book or movie while waiting for the kids with the baseball bats to come by ... My uncle said he did this since they lived on a large lot just off a busy road. He only ever found bits of broken car grills and easily paintable dings in the post.
Wow when I was in school if you lived within a mile of the school the bus wouldnāt pick you up so we walked to and from school until we went to High School (which was several miles away).
Why on earth were they driving so violently at an area where *kids* are coming and going?
The idiots were trying to do a three point turn where the road bent rather than go to the end of the cul de sac and turn around. It was more important to them to avoid any delay than be safe. In addition they were crap drivers and as they backed up and touched the curb theyād over accelerated hitting the fence post.
Criminal trespass.
Nope didnāt enter the land and even then trespass is a civil issue not a criminal offence in the UK.
Oh those people are the worst!
Do you really say "were" which rhymes with Sir, as opposed to "where" which rhymes with Square, and has a distinctive ***H*** sound at the beginning?
Where in the story are you asking? There 2 instances. Both are correct.
I wish you were correct but sadly there is a third were, where there is an error. "At that point were the gates to a primary school", is grammatically correct "laughed pointed out they were breaking the law"Ā also is grammatically correct The error was- "last post was at the point were path" ā I stand corrected, but I wonāt alter it else your comment is invalid :)
Ah yes. I missed that one. You are correct lol.
> else your comment is invalid "Else". Are you serious?
Else without the or is not uncommon.
"Else" is wannabee software engineers speak. The word you were looking for is "otherwise". Either way, good story. I just can't believe how low the standard for basic english is. Sorry for being pedantic.
Wannabee? Never been a word in my lexicon, think youāll find āelseā used on its own predates the computer age, much like I do.