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Post by tractor on Feb 10, 2015 15:05:16 GMT -5
I'm sitting here in front of the high school waiting to pick up the boy, not something I usually do. I apparently don't know the proper staging protocol as I'm parked in front of the walkway. But not all the way up to the end of the curb. It's amazing how many parents are giving me a dirty look because I didnt pull all the way up. I must have missed the memo, screw them. I'm such a revel.
Oh goody, now they're double parking so their princess doesn't have to walk an extra 100 feet, hope I can get out..
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Post by moon/Laura on Feb 10, 2015 15:11:32 GMT -5
Rebel, not revel.
And yes, you are always supposed to pull all the way forward. what ends up happening at my son's school (both this one and his previous one) is people just pull in wherever they like but leave these huge gaps of space in between cars. pretty soon, you see that 2 or 3 more cars *could* have gotten in, but for the ones who had to be assholes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 15:17:58 GMT -5
Our school has signs all along the curb saying to pull all the way to the front of the white zone (which is beyond the yellow school bus zone) and not leave your vehicle. Half the people ignore it even though the school sends out email reminders several times a year. This one lady in the morning really bugs me. She parks in the school bus area right in front of the door, GETS OUT and takes her preschooler in. At least once a week the busses are stuck waiting for her to leave. I have a preschooler too. I park in the lot and walk him the whopping 70 extra feet or so.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Feb 10, 2015 15:21:59 GMT -5
Our school has signs all along the curb saying to pull all the way to the front of the white zone (which is beyond the yellow school bus zone) and not leave your vehicle. Half the people ignore it even though the school sends out email reminders several times a year. This one lady in the morning really bugs me. She parks in the school bus area right in front of the door, GETS OUT and takes her preschooler in. At least once a week the busses are stuck waiting for her to leave. I have a preschooler too. I park in the lot and walk him the whopping 70 extra feet or so. They should tow her. Actually, I think the bus should push her out of the way, but I'm going with the nice way first.
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Post by tractor on Feb 10, 2015 15:31:10 GMT -5
The busses have their own seperate spot. I was here first, if they don't like it, they should get here before me. Actually I was trying to be nice, but sometimes I fail.
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Post by moon/Laura on Feb 10, 2015 15:31:30 GMT -5
I have noticed that they just don't design schools so that drop off and pickup are as painless as possible.
At my son's former school, you dropped off on the right, then continued around the outside lane of the parking lot to exit. Trying to turn left out of there though was nearly an impossibility, and it would eventually back things up to the point where no one could get in OR out. So they stopped allowing left turns out. If there was someone there directing the traffic flow, it was fine. But if they relied on the orange cones (which clearly stated NO LEFT TURN), then it was the same thing only worse because there were always the special snowflakes that didn't care whether you could turn left or not. "I'm not going to be inconvenienced!" So now you have the one and only lane out blocked waiting on the ones who feel like it's their right to go ahead and turn left anyway.
Entitled asshats. I hate 'em.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 10, 2015 15:33:21 GMT -5
Our school has signs all along the curb saying to pull all the way to the front of the white zone (which is beyond the yellow school bus zone) and not leave your vehicle. Half the people ignore it even though the school sends out email reminders several times a year. This one lady in the morning really bugs me. She parks in the school bus area right in front of the door, GETS OUT and takes her preschooler in. At least once a week the busses are stuck waiting for her to leave. I have a preschooler too. I park in the lot and walk him the whopping 70 extra feet or so. They should tow her. Actually, I think the bus should push her out of the way, but I'm going with the nice way first. I wonder if she leaves the keys in the ignition and the vehicle running. I admit, I'm not sure what my MIL does for the morning dropoff. I carefully don't inquire because I'm about 99% sure I won't get her logic. Based on her afternoon pickups, it seems to involve NEEDING to get the closest/best possible parking spot. She's fairly cheerfully admitted that when she does the afternoon pickup, she'll get there at 2pm. You're not even allowed into the building until after 310 or so. I'm doing afternoon pickup this year and I park, usually in the back lot, walk around to the front and get the kids.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 10, 2015 15:35:22 GMT -5
I have noticed that they just don't design schools so that drop off and pickup are as painless as possible.
At my son's former school, you dropped off on the right, then continued around the outside lane of the parking lot to exit. Trying to turn left out of there though was nearly an impossibility, and it would eventually back things up to the point where no one could get in OR out. So they stopped allowing left turns out. If there was someone there directing the traffic flow, it was fine. But if they relied on the orange cones (which clearly stated NO LEFT TURN), then it was the same thing only worse because there were always the special snowflakes that didn't care whether you could turn left or not. "I'm not going to be inconvenienced!" So now you have the one and only lane out blocked waiting on the ones who feel like it's their right to go ahead and turn left anyway.
Entitled asshats. I hate 'em. Snort. Last year the kids school has some drop off setup in the extremely tight back lot. At least twice there was school wide notification that basically said "you're setting a bad example for the kids with your language and flouting of the rules so knock it off"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 15:38:19 GMT -5
They should tow her. Actually, I think the bus should push her out of the way, but I'm going with the nice way first. I wonder if she leaves the keys in the ignition and the vehicle running. I admit, I'm not sure what my MIL does for the morning dropoff. I carefully don't inquire because I'm about 99% sure I won't get her logic. Based on her afternoon pickups, it seems to involve NEEDING to get the closest/best possible parking spot. She's fairly cheerfully admitted that when she does the afternoon pickup, she'll get there at 2pm. You're not even allowed into the building until after 310 or so. I'm doing afternoon pickup this year and I park, usually in the back lot, walk around to the front and get the kids. Yes, she leaves it running. I do too, but I'm not parked where someone might get pissed off, put it in gear and walk away.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Feb 10, 2015 15:39:20 GMT -5
I don't know how you ladies deal with all this crap.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 10, 2015 15:39:34 GMT -5
I was thinking someone should move it out of the way.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Feb 10, 2015 15:41:30 GMT -5
I was thinking someone should move it out of the way. Preferably around a corner so she thinks it's stolen and panics.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 15:41:47 GMT -5
I have noticed that they just don't design schools so that drop off and pickup are as painless as possible.
At my son's former school, you dropped off on the right, then continued around the outside lane of the parking lot to exit. Trying to turn left out of there though was nearly an impossibility, and it would eventually back things up to the point where no one could get in OR out. So they stopped allowing left turns out. If there was someone there directing the traffic flow, it was fine. But if they relied on the orange cones (which clearly stated NO LEFT TURN), then it was the same thing only worse because there were always the special snowflakes that didn't care whether you could turn left or not. "I'm not going to be inconvenienced!" So now you have the one and only lane out blocked waiting on the ones who feel like it's their right to go ahead and turn left anyway.
Entitled asshats. I hate 'em. Ha! We have a no left turn lane exit too, but some people still turn left, DRIVE DOWN THE SIDEWALK for like 20 feet until they're in the parking lot of the business next to the school that has a way to turn left. It's stupid because it only saves them going a couple blocks out of the way to do the U-turn.
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Post by milee on Feb 10, 2015 15:42:34 GMT -5
Parents doing school drop off and pick up definitely need to be considerate of others and work to make sure they're not preventing others from getting in the limited space.
On the other hand, some of the schools around here can be a little cray cray with their parking lot rules and set up. One of my friends described a situation where the way the lot and cones are set up at her school, if a single parent/child takes an extra long time or stays in the front position for whatever reason, it basically blocks hundreds of other cars because there's no way to go around. That's nuts. One day when her son had a doctor's appointment and they got stuck in the line (nobody could exit because a single car up front was blocking the single lane exit), she checked carefully that there weren't any pedestrians or cars in the next lane over and went around. Seemed reasonable to me. The problem was that she drives a Suburban and didn't notice that she hooked one of the school's big orange traffic cones and ended up dragging it all the way to her doctor's office, where it was not just embarrassing but pretty tough to get unwedged from under her car.
It got even worse the next day when the principal's office called her in to review the security camera footage of the parking lot. She got banned from car line for two weeks. But I think she viewed that as a mercy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 15:43:07 GMT -5
I don't know how you ladies deal with all this crap. Me either! I'm bitching, but our school is really small (only a couple hundred kids) and the town is small too. I can't imagine the traffic at those big schools.
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Post by milee on Feb 10, 2015 15:48:25 GMT -5
I was thinking someone should move it out of the way. I know I've already told this, but never perform an asshole parking move in an area with sailors. I've seen all sorts of awful/funny things happen. Like when one of my friends got back from a race and couldn't put his huge catamaran back in its land storage slip because someone had parked their cute red BMW convertible in front of his trailer. He had the owner paged for a half hour and then tied a line around the BMW's front axle and used his SUV to drag that convertible halfway across the parking lot. BTW, when cars are dragged by the axle it's not pretty. They don't roll like they do when they're towed because the wheels aren't free spinning and in neutral gear, so the car skids and drags until the force overcomes the resistance and then it skips and skitters a few feet before doing the same hop again. Ugly.
I suspect if someone just moves that mom's car once or twice she'll get the message. Or the school could just do the adult thing and talk to her directly...
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 10, 2015 16:01:51 GMT -5
I was thinking someone should move it out of the way. I know I've already told this, but never perform an asshole parking move in an area with sailors. I've seen all sorts of awful/funny things happen. Like when one of my friends got back from a race and couldn't put his huge catamaran back in its land storage slip because someone had parked their cute red BMW convertible in front of his trailer. He had the owner paged for a half hour and then tied a line around the BMW's front axle and used his SUV to drag that convertible halfway across the parking lot. BTW, when cars are dragged by the axle it's not pretty. They don't roll like they do when they're towed because the wheels aren't free spinning and in neutral gear, so the car skids and drags until the force overcomes the resistance and then it skips and skitters a few feet before doing the same hop again. Ugly.
I suspect if someone just moves that mom's car once or twice she'll get the message. Or the school could just do the adult thing and talk to her directly...
But, but that would be sane. And responsible. And setting a good example of how to resolve conflict. We can't have that, can we?
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I know I've already told this, but never perform an asshole parking move in an area with sailors. I've seen all sorts of awful/funny things happen. Like when one of my friends got back from a race and couldn't put his huge catamaran back in its land storage slip because someone had parked their cute red BMW convertible in front of his trailer. He had the owner paged for a half hour and then tied a line around the BMW's front axle and used his SUV to drag that convertible halfway across the parking lot. BTW, when cars are dragged by the axle it's not pretty. They don't roll like they do when they're towed because the wheels aren't free spinning and in neutral gear, so the car skids and drags until the force overcomes the resistance and then it skips and skitters a few feet before doing the same hop again. Ugly.
I suspect if someone just moves that mom's car once or twice she'll get the message. Or the school could just do the adult thing and talk to her directly...
But, but that would be sane. And responsible. And setting a good example of how to resolve conflict. We can't have that, can we? Nope. We need to egg her van and leave death threats on the windshield.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Feb 10, 2015 16:07:29 GMT -5
I like MPL's idea better! And she has eggs!
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Post by tractor on Feb 10, 2015 16:19:17 GMT -5
Well, I made it out alive. I was only there to pick the boy up for a DRs appointment. Our school is designed pretty well for picking up and dropping off. The buses have their own driveway access, then the parents can chose between the upper and lower pick up area. Both of them have room to pass and it actually goes quite well. I was laughing because I left 1 1/2 spots in front of me and everyone kept trying to squeeze into those spots instead of pulling in behind me. I'm sure if it was a daily occurrence, I would know the rules, but who doesn't want to irritate people every now and then?
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Post by milee on Feb 10, 2015 16:36:11 GMT -5
I was laughing because I left 1 1/2 spots in front of me and everyone kept trying to squeeze into those spots instead of pulling in behind me. Not sure about your school, but at our school, the cars lined up for car line back up through all of the school property and out onto the neighboring streets. So the school makes a huge deal of moving cars forward so we clear out and block regular road traffic for as short a time as possible.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 10, 2015 16:42:26 GMT -5
Well, my days of drop off and pick ups are long gone but I have one pet peeve about school traffic. Driving thru a school zone and the traffic lady has traffic backed up to hell and back to let one or two cars creep along from the back of the parking lot to get to the street. Sitting so long you can park your car and get to know the person in front and behind you. Party time
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Post by busymom on Feb 10, 2015 16:42:37 GMT -5
Our school has a police officer on site. And, she goes out & chases off the parents who are parked in the wrong area for picking up kids. Parents who argue get a lecture on keeping the lane clear for the buses. And, since there are "No Parking" signs there, technically drivers who sit there "could" be ticketed.
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Post by tskeeter on Feb 10, 2015 17:56:27 GMT -5
I have noticed that they just don't design schools so that drop off and pickup are as painless as possible.
At my son's former school, you dropped off on the right, then continued around the outside lane of the parking lot to exit. Trying to turn left out of there though was nearly an impossibility, and it would eventually back things up to the point where no one could get in OR out. So they stopped allowing left turns out. If there was someone there directing the traffic flow, it was fine. But if they relied on the orange cones (which clearly stated NO LEFT TURN), then it was the same thing only worse because there were always the special snowflakes that didn't care whether you could turn left or not. "I'm not going to be inconvenienced!" So now you have the one and only lane out blocked waiting on the ones who feel like it's their right to go ahead and turn left anyway.
Entitled asshats. I hate 'em. These are the same Mensa candidates that pull to the end of the merge lane and stop and wait for three lanes of traffic to clear so they can cross and turn into WalMart half a block away. The "Merge, Damnit!" sign I posted hasn't helped much. Apparently they can't read any better than they drive.
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Post by tskeeter on Feb 10, 2015 18:00:21 GMT -5
I know I've already told this, but never perform an asshole parking move in an area with sailors. I've seen all sorts of awful/funny things happen. Like when one of my friends got back from a race and couldn't put his huge catamaran back in its land storage slip because someone had parked their cute red BMW convertible in front of his trailer. He had the owner paged for a half hour and then tied a line around the BMW's front axle and used his SUV to drag that convertible halfway across the parking lot. BTW, when cars are dragged by the axle it's not pretty. They don't roll like they do when they're towed because the wheels aren't free spinning and in neutral gear, so the car skids and drags until the force overcomes the resistance and then it skips and skitters a few feet before doing the same hop again. Ugly.
I suspect if someone just moves that mom's car once or twice she'll get the message. Or the school could just do the adult thing and talk to her directly...
But, but that would be sane. And responsible. And setting a good example of how to resolve conflict. We can't have that, can we? Unfortunately, there are a few people who just don't get it until someone behaves like a bigger A..hole than they do.
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Post by tskeeter on Feb 10, 2015 18:09:21 GMT -5
I was thinking someone should move it out of the way. I know I've already told this, but never perform an asshole parking move in an area with sailors. I've seen all sorts of awful/funny things happen. Like when one of my friends got back from a race and couldn't put his huge catamaran back in its land storage slip because someone had parked their cute red BMW convertible in front of his trailer. He had the owner paged for a half hour and then tied a line around the BMW's front axle and used his SUV to drag that convertible halfway across the parking lot. BTW, when cars are dragged by the axle it's not pretty. They don't roll like they do when they're towed because the wheels aren't free spinning and in neutral gear, so the car skids and drags until the force overcomes the resistance and then it skips and skitters a few feet before doing the same hop again. Ugly.
I suspect if someone just moves that mom's car once or twice she'll get the message. Or the school could just do the adult thing and talk to her directly...
Would have been so much more fun it he had just grabbed the boat lift and repositioned the car for a car wash. I understand they get really clean when immersed in about 6 or 8 feet of water. Washes out the dust and crumbs that collect under the seats, cleans that oily mess out of the crank case, even lubricates the catalytic converter.
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Post by justme on Feb 10, 2015 18:10:00 GMT -5
It's all you crazy parents insisting to pick up your kids now! I was amazed at how insane my elementary pick up line was when I drove by several years back. The few times I was picked up it was no where close to the number that pick up now.
And it's not because parents don't want their kids walking - all students are bussed because there's not sidewalks leading to the school.
Aww crap, guess I can't sue my mom for abandonment stemming from her putting me on a school bus the first day.
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Post by moon/Laura on Feb 10, 2015 19:03:08 GMT -5
I have noticed that they just don't design schools so that drop off and pickup are as painless as possible.
At my son's former school, you dropped off on the right, then continued around the outside lane of the parking lot to exit. Trying to turn left out of there though was nearly an impossibility, and it would eventually back things up to the point where no one could get in OR out. So they stopped allowing left turns out. If there was someone there directing the traffic flow, it was fine. But if they relied on the orange cones (which clearly stated NO LEFT TURN), then it was the same thing only worse because there were always the special snowflakes that didn't care whether you could turn left or not. "I'm not going to be inconvenienced!" So now you have the one and only lane out blocked waiting on the ones who feel like it's their right to go ahead and turn left anyway.
Entitled asshats. I hate 'em. These are the same Mensa candidates that pull to the end of the merge lane and stop and wait for three lanes of traffic to clear so they can cross and turn into WalMart half a block away. The "Merge, Damnit!" sign I posted hasn't helped much. Apparently they can't read any better than they drive. OMGosh, I have the exact same scenario here, too! They have probably close to a mile, in actuality, before the turn lane to walmart. Still, they seem to think they have to wait until the lane they want to be in is accessible before they can possibly budge. My poor son is totally used to me laying on the horn (if necessary) and telling them "drive! you have a lane!" hahah.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 20:59:05 GMT -5
I'm sitting here in front of the high school waiting to pick up the boy, not something I usually do. I apparently don't know the proper staging protocol as I'm parked in front of the walkway. But not all the way up to the end of the curb. It's amazing how many parents are giving me a dirty look because I didnt pull all the way up. I must have missed the memo, screw them. I'm such a revel. Oh goody, now they're double parking so their princess doesn't have to walk an extra 100 feet, hope I can get out.. so why couldn't you pull up and have your kid walk an extra 100 feet?
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I'm sitting here in front of the high school waiting to pick up the boy, not something I usually do. I apparently don't know the proper staging protocol as I'm parked in front of the walkway. But not all the way up to the end of the curb. It's amazing how many parents are giving me a dirty look because I didnt pull all the way up. I must have missed the memo, screw them. I'm such a revel. Oh goody, now they're double parking so their princess doesn't have to walk an extra 100 feet, hope I can get out.. so why couldn't you pull up and have your kid walk an extra 100 feet? Because he's my special snowflake and I don't want to take a chance that he might hurt his foot having to go so far, you know how soft those teenage boys can be. My kids the only one who counts.
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