Okay, people. Seriously. Is it so hard to understand that to drop your kids off at school in the morning, you are to pull over to the curb and let them out of the car? As you have been instructed to do by the twice-a-year letter from the principal reminding you on drop-off procedures. You DON'T sit in the middle of the driveway, taking your merry time kissing your kids goodbye, flattening their hair back down with some spit and your hand, or wiping their face with the same spit and hand, yelling instructions to them about heading to the sitters house as they run off into school, and then continue to sit there and watch them disappear into the building.
For one, it's a safety issue. For example, I was sitting behind some woman today who was dropping off her kids. In the middle of the school driveway. The door closed, the kids ran out of the road, and as we start to pull forward, another lady pulls in front of me on the right. Since when did it become okay to pass somebody on the right? Especially in a school drop-off zone where kids are exiting the cars and heading to the right to go into the building.
For two, it makes a HUGE traffic nightmare. One person stops in the middle to drop their kids off, and the next five people behind them do the same thing. So, the next 15 people in line, like me, that understand that you're to pull over to the curb to drop your kids off, are stuck in the driveway and out into the road for the next five minutes.
In fact, sometimes it has gotten so bad that there is one big, gridlocked circle - people waiting to drop their kids off, and people that have already dropped their kids off and are waiting to turn back into the road. Only, they can't, because traffic is so backed up because of that one person that stopped in the middle of the road to kiss Jr. goodbye.
So, if you have to kiss Jr. goodbye (like I do my kids in the morning) pull over to the curb to kiss them and flatten their hair. And let those of us that have already kissed our kids goodbye get on our way. People would be a lot happier. I know I would.
Stockton's 16th birthday
1 week ago
2 comments:
AMEN!! I too have problems with people who do not follow the instruction on drop-off and pick-up for their school. Is it really so hard? Do you really have to park in the loading zone, or worse yet the handicap parking because you are too laziy to walk the little extra distance?
PS. And what's up with letting your children sit on your lap or walk all over the car while you are still driving? Yes, it's only 5 mph but still don't you want to keep your children safe and teach them safe habits???
I actually blogged about this a couple years ago! I tried to find the post to send to you but it must have been on my old blog which is long-gone. I hear ya, though! A MAJOR pet peeve of mine! I think what I hate the worst is when someone doesn't pull to the end of the drive...instead they stop at entrance of the driveway. Or what about the moms that park in the NO PARKING school drop-off zone to run in "for just a quick second" to talk to their kids' teachers or something? I'm not a honker usually but I HAVE honked once (or twice or thrice) in the school drop-off zone!
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