A Driving Lunatic or Just Road Rage?

It's not that I'm in a hurry all the time. But I gotta rant........

I'm in charge of dropping the kids off at school every morning. Their school is 2 blocks from our house. Basically it's in the neighboring subdivision where the school is located at the way back. It's 8:30am. Not a really busy time, as it's a bit early for most of the kids to be there already. My daughter is a school patrol so she has to be there earlier.

Every morning I go round the 'car rider' circle, where it is procedure to drive forward as far as possible before letting your child out. This is so other cars can drop off at the same time. One does not HOG the car rider station. Nope. There is always one bitch that has to stop right at the end, so HER child doesn't have to walk the extra 5 steps. Or they ignore the 'car rider' area completely and drive up to the main entrance to drop their child off. Now, can said bitch not see that there are No Parking cones set up for just this reason?

You do NOT drop your child off at the main entrance as you block all the traffic from the car rider drop off. Nope, HER child is special.

As I pull out of the school grounds it's a curly drive back to the entrance. How is it that I manage to get behind the slowest fricken mom in the whole school ? Every single day. I realize that there are kids walking and riding their bikes on the sidewalks. I see them and I watch out for them. But can we drive just a tad faster than 15 mph ?

Now I approach the stop light at the entrance of the subdivision. Can this bitch in front of me SEE that it's green already and MAYBE if she presses the gas just a little further she and I MIGHT make it thru the light? Nope. She's got 4 car lengths ahead of her and continues on her merry ass slow way. Now we are forced to sit thru another cycle of light. Big deal? I've timed this light. I can listen to all of "Free Bird" before this light changes again !!

One day, this bitch in a beat up van sped past me and cut right in front of meto make sure HER ass made it thru the light. She literally drove on the wrong side of the road and cut in front of the entire line of cars waiting their turn for the light.

I chased her ass down the street, got up along side her, rolled down my window and yelled "You wait in line like everybody else, bitch !" LOL Damn that felt good. I haven't see her since.

Next I come to the light that has a special No Right Turn On Red sign attached to it. This is understandable as it pertains only to the hour between 8 and 9am. It's a school crossing intersection. All good. But when that light turns green DO YA THINK YA CAN MOVE YOUR ASS NOW?? Nope. What is it these people are doing that they can't pay attention to what's going on around them?? Because you were busy scrambling your eggs in your car, I know have to sit thru another cycle of lights. Where I can't turn right on red.

The afternoon trip is even more frustrating. The car rider line is very long in the afternoons. I have two options. I can get there super early, be towards the front of the line and sit and wait 30 minutes before school is even dismissed. Or, I can wait till almost 3 and be way back in the line, but the line is moving. I usually opt for the later.

Once again my blood pressure will rise. What are these stupid parents doing in their car that they can't see that the line has moved ahead of them and they need to advance as well? So the rest of us can move up? So the bus behind me can make it's way to the bus entrance? I kid you not, one mom actually FELL ASLEEP in the line ! We had to pull out and go around her! A teacher had to run over to her car and pound on her window to wake her up !
Horns? Apparently 10 cars honking at her all at the same time wasn't loud enough.

I watch the line move, or not move, and my blood boils. Pay the fuck attention !! Stop reading the paper, painting your toenails or whatever it is you're doing. You are in this line to move to the front. MOVE !

Oh my God ! Can you not see these teachers waving you to drive as far forward as you can before stopping to pick your child up? Arms flailing like windmills ! Do you not see them? Your child is not so special that he or she can't take a few extra steps. Who the fuck do you think you are ?! And once stopped, get your kid in the car and get your ass moving. Now is not the time to have a parent teacher conference !

I tell ya, by the time I get to the office I am a raging lunatic. Thank God I don't drink coffee ! It's not that I'm in a hurry. I just can not stand people who do not follow the rules or pay attention. I swear, these Moms only drive in order to take their kids to and from school. They don't have a clue as to what they are doing.

Twice a day, every day I have to tolerate this stupidity, this ignorance, this...this....god, I can't even find the word for it.

Maybe it's just me. I never claimed to have patience. But at least I passed my drivers' test.