Dopey parents...

DoomZ

I notice a trend in newer parents when they are loading their kids into cars these days.
They seem to think the world revolves and stops around loading 'little Johnny or Mary' into the car.
There is a school and Creche nearby where I live and the amount of times i see parents with the road side door wide open loading their kids in, I had to stop for 10mins the other day because of the road been to narrow and eventually had to give the horn a toot to get their attention, and i get a dirty look for that.
Parents have some cop on, load the kids into the car from the path side, even if it means having to reach across the back seat.
It only takes someone not paying attention for 10 seconds to wipe you and your child out.

Kevin McCloud

Alot of the parents do be half sloshed on the vino.

DoomZ

I wish that was the excuse....morons.

colm_mcm

Where did the expression "little johnny or Mary" start?

DoomZ

colm_mcm wrote: »

Where did the expression "little johnny or Mary" start?

In the 1st post....

Kristopherus

DoomZ wrote: »

I notice a trend in newer parents when they are loading their kids into cars these days.
They seem to think the world revolves and stops around loading 'little Johnny or Mary' into the car.
There is a school and Creche nearby where I live and the amount of times i see parents with the road side door wide open loading their kids in, I had to stop for 10mins the other day because of the road been to narrow and eventually had to give the horn a toot to get their attention, and i get a dirty look for that.
Parents have some cop on, load the kids into the car from the path side, even if it means having to reach across the back seat.
It only takes someone not paying attention for 10 seconds to wipe you and your child out.

Blame the RSA for it.

DoomZ

Kristopherus wrote: »

Blame the RSA for it.

How so?

goz83

DoomZ wrote: »

How so?

"Buckle Up"

colm_mcm

DoomZ wrote: »

In the 1st post....

Nah, its something I hear people say a good bit. Specifically little johnny and little Mary.
Not a dig at you or anything.

DoomZ

colm_mcm wrote: »

Nah, its something I hear people say a good bit. Specifically little johnny and little Mary.
Not a dig at you or anything.

Little Johnny jokes....he's a bauld bastisd

Jawgap

DoomZ wrote: »

I notice a trend in newer parents when they are loading their kids into cars these days.
They seem to think the world revolves and stops around loading 'little Johnny or Mary' into the car.
There is a school and Creche nearby where I live and the amount of times i see parents with the road side door wide open loading their kids in, I had to stop for 10mins the other day because of the road been to narrow and eventually had to give the horn a toot to get their attention, and i get a dirty look for that.
Parents have some cop on, load the kids into the car from the path side, even if it means having to reach across the back seat.
It only takes someone not paying attention for 10 seconds to wipe you and your child out.

Actually you're wrong - parents need to cop on and realise that walking their kids to and from school or, heaven for bid, getting there and back using a bike or two will do them and their at-risk-of-fattyness sprogs the world of good:D

I'd say there's very few kids 'have' to be driven to school / creche.

Joeseph Balls

Try living 20 yards from the school. When you do get by, there's someone parked in the gateway. Every fcukin day. Had someone tell me one days as i was getting into the car to leave 'I'll only be 5 minutes'.

BMJD

Jawgap wrote: »

I'd say there's very few kids 'have' to be driven to school / creche.

I'd say you're wrong.

Jawgap

BMJD wrote: »

I'd say you're wrong.

I'd say you haven't read the census data from 2011.....

Odyssey 2005

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Try living 20 yards from the school. When you do get by, there's someone parked in the gateway. Every fcukin day. Had someone tell me one days as i was getting into the car to leave 'I'll only be 5 minutes'.

They would only do that once,and that would be too often!!

spiggotpaddy

Shocking, it's the way they were brought up. I blame the parents.

goz83

There are a good few schools within a stones throw. Sometimes throwing stones seems like a good idea. The school on the Grange Road in Donaghmede has seen the behaviour of motorists decline in recent times. The ignorant numpties now park all the way up the road, a few metres after the roundabout, in the cycle lane, across the school car entrance AND in the bus stop :eek:

It's stupidly dangerous. They could park in the massive car park that is Donaghmede Shopping Centre, but oh God no...that would be sensible.

EazyD

It's particularly irritating when you need to be somewhere and the whole entrance to the estate is blocked up by bad parking (on pavements, bus stops, even the driveway sometimes). Usually women in mid-late 30/40's in their kiddy bus blissfully ignorant to the headaches they inflict on residents.

hardCopy

We should just ban all parking within a kilometre of schools. At least it would spread out the wildcat parking and guarantee a minimum level of exercise for kids.

Galwayguy35

I'm ofton coming home just as secondry school finishes and I notice the kids crossing the road and putting their hand up to stop the traffic, now this is a town so we won't be flooring it but it's still very dangerous and these are teenagers, old enough to know it's not acceptable.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I'm ofton coming home just as secondry school finishes and I notice the kids crossing the road and putting their hand up to stop the traffic, now this is a town so we won't be flooring it but it's still very dangerous and these are teenagers, old enough to know it's not acceptable.

Utter crap doing that...

Blame the lollipop ppeople for this

All you need now is for them to walk into traffic like they own it infront of a speeding car or an emergency service vehicle is a hurry somewhere.

CorkClaire82

I pass a school every day on the way to work and it drives me nuts the way people carry on dropping their children off. One day i pulled up next to a car parked on the side of the road and got a dirty look from the mother and then the child threw open the door and hit my car. The mother didn't even apologise, i was livid with her. The child could do that when a car is driving by and do awful damage, or get hurt themselves. I wrote a strongly worded email to the school :-P no major difference but i felt better!

Sittingpretty

DoomZ wrote: »

I notice a trend in newer parents when they are loading their kids into cars these days.
They seem to think the world revolves and stops around loading 'little Johnny or Mary' into the car.
There is a school and Creche nearby where I live and the amount of times i see parents with the road side door wide open loading their kids in, I had to stop for 10mins the other day because of the road been to narrow and eventually had to give the horn a toot to get their attention, and i get a dirty look for that.
Parents have some cop on, load the kids into the car from the path side, even if it means having to reach across the back seat.
It only takes someone not paying attention for 10 seconds to wipe you and your child out.

As a parent I TOTALLY agree with you. Getting a child out of a car on the road side of a busy road is moronic.

Unfortunately I see it all the time

shedweller

I think its partly lazy arse parents, partly poor planning on the schools/councils behalf. Theres often inadequate parking at schools and where there physically cannot be more parking, theres feck all thought put into trying better ways to load/unload kids from cars.

And we cant all walk or cycle our 4,5,6,7,8....year olds on busy roads filled with all sizes of traffic in all weathers. Outside "The Pale" theres very little footpaths outside villages so the roads are lethal at the best of times. Just stand on the roadside at 09:00 on a school day and you'll see what i mean.
All that said, i do agree with you OP. Theres a shocking amount of parents that simply dont give two fecks how much they block up the roads OR damage other peoples property. I have the dings to prove it! However i constantly remind my lads to mind other peoples cars when they open my door to get it and the message is sinking in thankfully. Pity they dont give a sh1t about anyones property at home!

alias no.9

DoomZ wrote: »

I notice a trend in newer parents when they are loading their kids into cars these days.
They seem to think the world revolves and stops around loading 'little Johnny or Mary' into the car.
There is a school and Creche nearby where I live and the amount of times i see parents with the road side door wide open loading their kids in, I had to stop for 10mins the other day because of the road been to narrow and eventually had to give the horn a toot to get their attention, and i get a dirty look for that.
Parents have some cop on, load the kids into the car from the path side, even if it means having to reach across the back seat.
It only takes someone not paying attention for 10 seconds to wipe you and your child out.

Not excusing people not paying attention but you're seriously deluded if you think it's possible to load a child into a car seat from the other side of the car.

DoomZ

alias no.9 wrote: »

Not excusing people not paying attention but you're seriously deluded if you think it's possible to load a child into a car seat from the other side of the car.

I have children, I have done it...i must be a superhuman....
if you think its a better option to risk your life with a car....best of luck to you.

braddun

we used to walk to school on our own

alias no.9

DoomZ wrote: »

I have children, I have done it...i must be a superhuman....
if you think its a better option to risk your life with a car....best of luck to you.

Fair play to you if you have, I always have the youngest kerbside where possible but there's no physical way I could load him from the other side, even without seats for the older two in the way.

2Mad2BeMad

braddun wrote: »

we used to walk to school on our own

that was a time when you're parents didn't care if you went missing :pac: now its all "Watch out for white vans, and don't talk to strangers" :pac:

Pinch Flat

alias no.9 wrote: »

Not excusing people not paying attention but you're seriously deluded if you think it's possible to load a child into a car seat from the other side of the car.

Did this all the time with my son. What worked really well was placing his child seat behind the passenger seat.

See all sorts of dopey carry on around our school - one that is served by paths and cycle lanes - children exiting cars in stopped traffic, nearly taking out cyclists. Exiting on roundabouts or at one school in Dublin City parents parking on the cycle lane and using the right side of the car to exit into passing cyclists and busy traffic - utterly dopey.

There's a lot of people out there for which a 1km walk is like a trip up Everest, some parents would literally drive into the school if they could. We live 1km from the local school - we walk or cycle when dropping off. The HSE haven't been around to prosecute us for child neglect.

Parents driving cause mayhem and will gladly block anything in sight - access to the shop, neighbours driveways, park in grass and paths. All this to get their kids a few minutes walk or cycle to the school.

DoomZ

alias no.9 wrote: »

Fair play to you if you have, I always have the youngest kerbside where possible but there's no physical way I could load him from the other side, even without seats for the older two in the way.

Well then.....Are you are one of the dopey parents referred to on this post?

Nothing can sanely justify loading childern on roadside, when there is moving traffic

Mongfinder General

DoomZ wrote: »

Well then.....Are you are one of the dopey parents referred to on this post?

Nothing can sanely justify loading childern on roadside, when there is moving traffic

What if the school is directly facing a bee sanctuary or alligator farm?

hi5

DoomZ

Mongfinder General wrote: »

What if the school is directly facing a bee sanctuary or alligator farm?

I hate to show you up, but again wouldn't the safe side be the inside/ same side as the School and not the roadside, same side as bee sanctuary or alligator farm?

Mongfinder General

DoomZ wrote: »

I hate to show you up, but again wouldn't the safe side be the inside/ same side as the School and not the roadside, same side as bee sanctuary or alligator farm?

Sorry but that parking is reserved for the a$$holes who showed up early.

DoomZ

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Sorry but that parking is reserved for the a$$holes who showed up early.

So do you admit a######s are smarter than u?

Sittingpretty

alias no.9 wrote: »

Not excusing peoplera not paying attention but you're seriously deluded if you think it's possible to load a child into a car seat from the other side of the car.

Of course it is, I've done it several times, what's the difficulty?

Mongfinder General

DoomZ wrote: »

So do you admit a######s are smarter than u?[/QUOT

The smart option is not taking the kids to school. I chose this option.

lazeedaisy

I don't bother slowing, just flash them, beep them and give them killer looks,

Sure get to see the. Whites of their eyes,

That's nothing compared to the idiots who do a u ie outside our local school, again, I keep going and they have the audacity to be angry

I sart work not to long after school starts and have seen it all,

Give them an inch & they own the road, the Irish wave, WTF

alias no.9

Sittingpretty wrote: »

Of course it is, I've done it several times, what's the difficulty?

Lifting a reluctant child into a seat at full reach while stooped down with other child seats in the way? Nothing at all.

DoomZ

alias no.9 wrote: »

Lifting a reluctant child into a seat at full reach while stooped down with other child seats in the way? Nothing at all.

A reluctant child is 100% better than a dead one- fact

cletus

DoomZ wrote: »

A reluctant child is 100% better than a dead one- fact

Ah will you go way, you'd swear there were children being killed every day due to being loaded into the car drivers side.

I've a 6 and a 2 year old, younger goes passenger side, older drivers side. If its particularly busy I'll put him in and then fasten his seatbelt from the passenger side

DoomZ

cletus wrote: »

Ah will you go way, you'd swear there were children being killed every day due to being loaded into the car drivers side.

I've a 6 and a 2 year old, younger goes passenger side, older drivers side. If its particularly busy I'll put him in and then fasten his seatbelt from the passenger side

Good for you, what about all the near misses and anyway, I'm referring to the parents who spend 10 mins on the roadside with the car door wide open oblivious to the fact they are a danger to themselves and other road users, its because of us other cautious road users that they are not killed.
Like I said earlier, all it takes is for a driver to be distracted for a few seconds and the outcome will be very bad for all.

alias no.9

DoomZ wrote: »

A reluctant child is 100% better than a dead one- fact

I won't for as much as a second put my children in danger so take your drama somewhere else. Bottom line here your op is a whinge about someone delaying you wrapped up in pseudoconcern for others safety.

whupdedo

Make no mistake about it these parents are scum bags, i see it everyday outside our local national school, and most of them are people with sfa else to do for the rest of the day holding up the entire road to have a chat with biddy and paudie about the state of the economy, these morons wouldn't walk the ten minutes it take to bring the child down the road to the front door in case the little fat ****ers would pull a hamstring

DoomZ

alias no.9 wrote: »

I won't for as much as a second put my children in danger so take your drama somewhere else. Bottom line here your op is a whinge about someone delaying you wrapped up in pseudoconcern for others safety.

But, did you not admit that you already do load at least one of your kids from the side of the car if it out on the road? ...cannot make out the second part of your post, you appear to be a bit ranty...!!

shuffles88

Where I live 1 school is particularly badly placed on a narrow road that is the only way into and out of the town, so a very busy spot. Just a 4 minute walk down the road (probably even less) is a car park which is completely unused unless mass is on. Does anyone park there and make the very short walk down the road? Nope! They park all the way up and down the road causing severe tailbacks in the morning and afternoon when trucks cant pass or some idiot parks badly.

Some American schools have a good system in place where the school is set back off the road with a set down area in front. The parent rolls up, the kids hop out and if the car doesn't move on or tries to park there's a warden that will tell them to bugger off. Proper order:D

whupdedo

Unless you're under 5 foot or carrying a good few pounds over your ideal weight, anyone should be able to manage to take their child out from the path side of the car without having to step onto the road

visual

Need both garda and parking warden to slap a few tickets on their car to change their selfish thoughtless behaviour.

alias no.9

DoomZ wrote: »

But, did you not admit that you already do load at least one of your kids from the side of the car if it out on the road?

Big difference between doing this in traffic and when there's no traffic.

...cannot make out the second part of your post, you appear to be a bit ranty...!!

The rant is in your OP

DoomZ wrote: »

I notice a trend in newer parents when they are loading their kids into cars these days.
They seem to think the world revolves and stops around loading 'little Johnny or Mary' into the car.
There is a school and Creche nearby where I live and the amount of times i see parents with the road side door wide open loading their kids in, I had to stop for 10mins the other day because of the road been to narrow and eventually had to give the horn a toot to get their attention, and i get a dirty look for that.
Parents have some cop on, load the kids into the car from the path side, even if it means having to reach across the back seat.
It only takes someone not paying attention for 10 seconds to wipe you and your child out.

10 minutes? Seriously?

visual

Need both garda and parking warden to slap a few tickets on their car to change their selfish thoughtless behaviour.