@Cakers3 wrote:
@Carmie wrote:
I leave maybe three to four feet at a drive through....a little more at the bank. Most of the people I see do as well
I sometimes pick up my granddaughter from school. Cars start arriving early and the cars in the back have to wait in line on a public highway at a stop sign in two different directions. The early birds queue up on school property.
This creates a problem and cars that are passing by and pulling into the school's drive way have to carefully go around the line of cars at the stop sign waiting for an opportunity to get in the queue.
I usually am one of the last cars on school property. I can see all of the cars in front of me ( curved driveway) and usually notice that many cars do not pull forward and leave up to three car lengths between them and the car in front of them. When a couple of cars do this, it creates more problems for those still waiting off school property on the public roads.
Last year, I left my spot in line and passed everyone on their left and found a place in the front of the line in a vacant space left by someone not pulling forward.The car that was now behind me starting honking and the woman was screaming at me. I just ignored her. It didn't help or change things. The cars continued to leave a large space between them the next day.
I just don't get this mentality and don't understand the need to hog up a couple of spaces.
@CarmieI think you were trying to control the line and pulled a stunt to "prove a point" which proved nothing.
Did you really think everyone was watching you and thinking "Tomorrow I won't hog a space?"
If I saw somebody pull that stunt I would think the person was impatient and rude.
How important was this?
Well, it's very important to me and to others who are waiting in the street. It Is not fun sitting at an intersection with a three way stop sign with 20 or more cars lined up in two directions. It is especially bad when a car needs to go through the stop sign because they are not going into the school. I have held my breath a few times at near accidents.
The school has advised parents and those picking up children to queue up in an orderly fashion and not leave 20 feet between the cars. Sometimes patents pick up more than one child and will leave these large gaps for up to 5 minutes until all the kids are there. When two or more cars do this...and they do, it really causes problems.
Some of the children walk off school property into the public road to find their ride. They are not allowed to do this, but if someone isn't there that day to stop them, they do it. I have seen them walk through deep snow covered grass in sneakers to catch their ride.
Really, I don't care if anyone thought I was inpatient and rude. I do not have all day to wait in a line that is not moving because someone sits there and won't pull forward as they are supposed to do. I was not trying to control the line. The people who would not pull forward were doing that. Somehow I think they get some kind of satisfaction making people wait on the public street while they hog up the space on school property. The same people do this everyday.
I am very old school. I believe as adults we should do as requested by the school. Those people who do as they wish think they are entitled. On that particular day, my granddaughter had an after school appointment and we would be late if I had waited in a line because I was in a line too far back to pick her up,only because people would not pull forward.
I am always there 20 minutes before pick-up time and I have been there 30 minutes early when I have been out running errands. You would think that I'd be one of the first cars there, but I am not.
I could go on and on about the crazy things parents do at this particular school. I have never seen such drama from adults. They are worse than children. That's for another thread though.
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