McGrath - in case your comment is directed at me: Surely a person loading/unloading a child from the ROAD TRAFFIC side is making themselves and their child far more vulnerable than if they were doing this from the pavement side ? The smugness (if there is any) is not on the part of the other road users who are trying to go about their unhurried business safely, but on the part of the parent who smugly thinks that the world revolves around them and that it is fine for them to hold up everybody else, when there is a much safer and more considerate way of loading/unloading their child.

- jeanie