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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are late to get your son to school, honking at cars in front of you at a stop sign at Newark Street won't get you there faster. We have to wait for traffic to break on 34th Street. When you almost caused an accident turning into traffic from 34th and Macomb, I thought about writing your license plate down. [b]If you do it again, I'll drive straight to the school and wait for you to come out.[/quote][/b]

[b]This might be just the sort of lesson in civility this person needs[/b][/i]. ([b]pull into the parking lot and give them a piece of your mind[/b][i]) People are rude to each other in traffic thinking that the person that they are flipping off is "no one" or at least no one that they will ever have to meet or know.

Well, a few years ago a Sidwell Mom gave me the finger as I struggled to figure out a turn off of Wisconsin Ave.  [b]Problem for her was I was going to Sidwell also [/b][i](to pick up my child) . I think she thought I was following her, you know, until she saw our kids were in the same class. I said , " I'm sorry to cause you some frustration back there . . . I am new to the area" . She wished the pavement would open and swallow her up.

[b]Served her right and I doubt she ever just assumed someone was a "no one" important again.
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Previous poster, though I am now going to criticize your post for some points, I apologize in advance, as I know that you are against rudeness and are trying to be the nice person here.

First, I would not recommend that anyone ever follow a rude driver, "pull into the parking lot, and give them a piece of your mind."  If you do so in a school parking lot, you are likely to get yourself, and not the other person, in trouble.  Also, yelling at, or lecturing, another adult in public is never, ever a "lesson in civility".  Again, it makes you look worse than the person in the wrong (believe me, I tried this once in front of my children and I have always deeply regretted that moment, which my children still bring up as an example of their "crazy mom". more than eight years later).  Instead, model the civility, consideration, kindness, forgiveness, and good manners you expect in others.

Second, though again I know you mean well with your point, you come across a bit "DC" when you say that the rude, middle-finger driver had her comeuppance, and will never "assume someone was a ""no one" important again", because it turns out that you are also a fellow Sidwell mom.  The point I think that you were trying to make is that no one should eve, ever treat another human with such meanness, rudeness, and condescension, regardless of that person's background, economic status, or importance.  I would want and expect that rude driver in your example to feel remorse and regret whether she cut off and flicked off a U.S. Senator or an immigrant mother.[/quote]

There are times, however, when it's the right thing to complain about the driver to the school.  We are neighbors of an independent school and a few years ago I was crossing a street with my kids when a mom blasted through the crosswalk on a fast, direct course for the school.  There was a school sticker on her car.  I contacted the school, gave a description of the driver and the car and my two cents that no one -- the school, other parents, neighbors -- appreciated self-absorbed driving like that which could put kids at risk.  The head of school agreed.  The school then contacted me after they had identified and spoken with the driver and said they gave her a very stern warning about driving privileges on school property.  I appreciated the school's response and follow-up.[/quote]

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