The worst drivers are......

[JLG]

People dropping off and picking up their kids from school.

They make illegal u-turns, park in the red zone, never signal, never look to see if a car is coming when they need to get back in traffic, and hold up the drop off/pick up line by telling their kids something.

It seems to be worse in the morning. The crossing guard and I just stand their in shock watching these idiots.

There is this one blue mini van that comes speeding down the street all the time because they are late to drop off their kids.

The school puts it in the weekly newsletter to obey the traffic laws and slow down but it does no good.

[Andara Bledin]

I want to see the cops running a set up where one cop is on the approach to the school using the radar gun on imcoming parents ferrying their offspring to the drop off point, and another cop is at the drop off point handing out tickets to those parents who were speeding on the way in.

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[protege]

That'll never happen. At least in my neighborhood, anyway...

There's an elementary school around the corner, and most of the parents are freaking idiots. They'll drop their kids off, and then literally lay rubber out of the parking lot. I can't count how many times I've nearly been hit while backing out of my driveway. It never fails--I'm halfway out of the driveway, and some dipshit comes roaring around the corner, and slams on the brakes. As a bonus, they'll blow the horn or flip me off

Sorry assholes, you need to learn to freaking drive. It's only 25mph on this street. There's no reason to go 90, especially with the kids walking to school, other cars along the street, not to mention people walking their dogs in the morning!

[mattm04]

This reminds me of the time, my Junior year in HS, the dead of winter one morning before class as students are milling in the hallways a sprinkler pipe burst due to the cold. This tripped the flow-switch and therefore the fire alarm.

The schools are located on a divided roadway (schools and public library only) two lanes each direction, with the HS at the end. Standing in the freezing gold we see the fire trucks approaching with lights and sirens, but the parents dropping off their kids are not pulling over. Near the edn of the "loop" at the HS one idiots stops with Fire truck behind her to let her darling out, blocking the truck from pulling up to the front of the school. The driver yells over the PA "move the F*cking car NOW!." She does and lets the truck by. Luckily they must have notified PD because a cop had stopped he as she was leaving.

[Aut]

I agree, pick up and drop off are the worst. My older kids go to a school outside our district and are able to take the bus, so I don't have to deal with that. But my youngest goes to preschool at an elementary school and pick up/drop off is the worst part. I don't know why some of these parents feels that they are too important to have to park legally. Especially this one guy that always parks in the red right in front, and then never signs his kid out - just grabs and runs. You can't tell me they are pressed for time when they get there 30 minutes early just so that they can grab that spot (and if it's taken, they will pull into the little driveway right next to drop off that's for the lunch truck to make deliveries preventing it from getting in.).

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The worst drivers are......

in Wisconsin.

[Rapscallion]

The best drivers come from my neck of the woods. The worst ones stay here.

Rapscallion

[AriRashkae]

We don't have that issue in the morning at my younger son's school. He takes pre-K at an elementary across town, since only 4 in the city offer the program. One of his classmates is the son of a city cop, and Daddy is often at the school (schedule permitting) to see his son go in. The kids all think it's so cool to have a uniformed officer and his car there.

Oddly enough, I almost never see bad driving from the drop offs. Can't speak for the pickups, since the preKs only have a half day. Then again, the sheriff's office is literally next door too, so I like to think it's not too bad.

[ADoyle90815]

I agree, I live about a block from both a middle school, and an elementary school next to that. Sometimes I can't even get in or out of the neighborhood during drop-off and pick up times. There have been times when my driveway has been blocked because my street is where many parents love to wait for their children. The middle school had to put up signs that say "No Honking" so I can imagine that enough parents honked, and those who live across the street from the school must have complained.

[Aethian]

The only times the highschool I went to would have parking/driving problems is when a parent would come in and just disrupt the flow. We had it where three cars at one time would get to the exit, first the right, middle, and then the left. But if it was some parent they would just pull right on out.

An excuse one time when a parent got into a bad t-bone with a student car? "I'm an adult and should have the right of way, what do you know your just a kid?"

[mattm04]

An excuse one time when a parent got into a bad t-bone with a student car? "I'm an adult and should have the right of way, what do you know your just a kid?"

And yet the 16/17 yo new driver understands the rules of the road better. At least around the school.

[EricKei]

That'll never happen. At least in my neighborhood, anyway...

Same here. I live one block away from an elementary school. Waaay too many of the parents drive SUV's, and love to to 40 down my street (street has a 20mph limit, school or not)...

The cops here will NEVER ticket anyone during school pickup/dropoff hours for anything short of a life-ending wreck, and that, methinks, is pretty sad.