In the course of my job, I get to meet a lot of traffic wardens. As in all walks of life, they come in good and bad. But, mostly, they are just trying to do their job as effectively as possible and keep people safe.
Inconsiderate parking can cause dangerous driving scenarios, especially for pedestrians but there are so many people who seem to think that parking rules apply to everyone except for them.
Enforcing parking limits means that everyone gets to have a go and you don’t get one selfish person who can’t be arsed to pay the fee at the local car park hogging for the entire day one of the free spots designed to facilitate a quick one-hour shopping trip. Commuters can deprive shopkeepers of customers.
Whilst there are many people who just ignore the parking rules they learned as they attempted to pass their driving test, there are some that seem to have changed. For example, parking on double yellow lines is not totally forbidden. You’re allowed to stop on these for two minutes to drop someone off but the driver is not allowed to get out of the car.
You are not allowed to stop on the yellow zigzags outside a school at all… but every day you’ll find the same lazy nitwits putting the lives of all the children who have to cross there at risk. They just don’t seem to understand that other traffic has to overtake them and invariably people drive too fast, even in front of schools, so they don’t see the small person stepping out until the last moment.
As parents, we are dependent upon traffic wardens enforcing these rules to ensure the safety of our schoolchildren and yet so many feel that it is acceptable to abuse them when they try to enforce the double yellow line rule. Too many people think that these rules are for other people but they are exempt because it is inconvenient/raining/they are late.
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Originally posted 2009-10-02 15:44:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
It happens because they think they’re entitled. We paid for the roads too…
Nolens Volens recently posted..Love HNT
NV, it’s the ME culture everywhere you go. And everyone is in such a rush, they have forgotten about consideration for others.
Forgotten? I think they generally don’t give a fuck. I’ve seen parents park wrong way while dropping their kids off and I know they think “I’m making sure my kids get to school safely” but you and I know that isn’t the case. The cops put in their token appearance…long after the frenzy has subsided. :)
Nolens Volens recently posted..Love HNT
NV, point taken. There was one parent recently that I overheard arguing with one a policewoman over why he was parked on the yellow zigzags. She asked him to move along and he just kept saying ‘But I’m meeting my son’. He clearly had absolutely no idea that the rules about not parking there during school hours applied to all parents.