Drop off pick up is a nightmare

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you should have taken his license place and report it to the school to verify whether his child complies with residency rules.

Report it directly to DC Charter board via their online system.

[Anonymous]

People with MD plates routinely use our alley as a road. They drive fast. They rudely repeatedly honk their horns behind us while we are waiting to pull safely into traffic. And it is hard to get their plate numbers to call the cops because it is a stressful and brief interaction.

[Anonymous]

didn't the two hour delay mena that you had an extra two hours to find a legal parking spot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:didn't the two hour delay mena that you had an extra two hours to find a legal parking spot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you should have taken his license place and report it to the school to verify whether his child complies with residency rules.

Report it directly to DC Charter board via their online system.

Last I checked, it's not illegal to follow traffic laws. Even if this guy is rude and unhinged, why would you do something vindictive because you were wrong?

Grow up and follow the rules. Late is late. Breaking drubbing rules is dangerous, not convenient.

OP is lucky the guard and d dot didn't call in moving violations.

[Anonymous]

Driving rules, not drubbing. Darn smartphone

[Anonymous]

If anyone expects drivers to disregard road rules because of a school delay, you are delusional.

Of course I expect drivers to be courteous if there is say, an elderly person being dropped off by someone double parked with flashers on, or a child crossing the street, but THIS is not THAT.

[Anonymous]

OP - here. Some of you are so ready to fight that you don't pay attention. The street is unfortunately so narrow that cars can not pass in both directions at the same time. During the drop off and pick up times there is way more traffic than the narrow street can handle. I feel for the people who do live on that street but another parent who is also trying to get his kids to school should not take his frustration out on me as the first of a line of cars. There was no room for his car and he needed to follow around and not try to cut up like everybody else. Yelling at me, about the time did not make room for his car.

In my previous life he would have subjected to a different language not for children and some adults to hear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible that he was going down the street for some reason other than the school drop off. Read the sign that said one way during the two hour window, saw it wasn't that window and drove down the road?

Perhaps but so what? That person can't wait 30 seconds so that OP can get her kid safely inside the school? Who the fuck is SOOOO important that they can't wait? If they were stuck behind a school bus, they'd be legally required to stop and there wouldn't be a damned thing they could do about it. In the absence of a school bus, it's pretty much the same deal for parents dropping off their kids. OP has my total sympathy and the other parent is a straight up dick.

How was he supposed to know if he wasn't a parent at the school? How would you know that you can't go down that road. How would you know that a particular street has a school drop off at that time. Even if you knew schools were late, I can't imagine connecting that the one way traffic laws are suspended for the day. Why is op so much more important than the other driver, who was following the law.

[boyleanne]

Sounds really bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP, park around the block where you can safely and legally get your kid to school. Are you really complaining because someone didn't wait a few minutes while you illegally double park? Why are you so entitled? Why is your rush more important than another driver's?

I don't ever double park; I always find a space, but I also don't get my panties in a wad about the people who do - briefly - double park. All of you uptight rule followers need to pull the sticks out of your collective ass.

[Anonymous]

Every day, I have to drive through the gauntlet created by the two charters in my neighborhood, soon to have another charter moving in. Really hate them all driving in from all parts of the city into streets that weren't designed for this kind of traffic. Have to deal with this crap everyday, twice a day... I have to drive my kid to another charter - I'm sure the neighbors feel the same about that charter as I do the ones in my neighborhood. Only in DC...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP, park around the block where you can safely and legally get your kid to school. Are you really complaining because someone didn't wait a few minutes while you illegally double park? Why are you so entitled? Why is your rush more important than another driver's?

I don't ever double park; I always find a space, but I also don't get my panties in a wad about the people who do - briefly - double park. All of you uptight rule followers need to pull the sticks out of your collective ass.

Whoever was stopped in the street, a non-parking spot, while letting the kids get out is breaking the law and deserves to be screamed at.