Ladies and gentlemen of the school run, I know Louis
Armstrong once sang we have all the time in the world.
So why are you so intent on wasting yours on getting that
perfect parking space?
School doesn’t start
till 8.45 but come 8.15 every weekday morning there they all are. Those
hallowed vehicle bays nearest the school occupied already before the cleaners
have even finished putting their Hoovers away.
Parents are stood in the bus shelter by the school gates
chuffing on fags like fifth formers behind the bike sheds. Gossiping and moaning
as their bored kids fiddle with the car till they get annoyed and bellow at the
troublesome youngster to get out and stand with them for the next half hour.
You’d think there would be a reason for this early arrival
at school to bag that first class parking slot, a quick getaway to work or
another sibling’s school drop off maybe. However quite often the clique marking
this prime territory in a cloud of smoke are still there for at least half an hour after I’ve passed them
on my return from doing the morning shop.
This reluctance to go home in the morning is then completely
juxtaposed in the afternoon by the same crowd for whom now the need to be the
first away when school finishes is so great that come 2pm there they’ll all be again.
Sitting in their motors , idly flicking through newspapers , magazines or
playing with their mobiles a full hour and twenty minutes before the pips go just
so junior doesn’t have to trudge too far
at the end of his/her tiring day.
Have these people really got nothing better to do, I may not
have the most whirlwind social life in the world but I’d rather be elsewhere
getting something done in that expanse of time than sitting in an automobile
updating my social media for the sake of parking a little further away.
Those hour and 20
minutes if you add them up over a week comes to 6 hours 40minutes by the way.
So yes please be smug about your quick getaway but remember
it’s completely pointless when you realise that the time you wasted sitting in
your motor comes in at just over a school day!
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