[juniormylove]

Pretty please?!?!
Okay, here's the story. We carpool with two other families to school, the L's and the B's. My best friend, Maria, and her older sister Vanessa are L's. Then theres a guy named Matt and his little sister Morgan in the B's. Maria is always ready on time, and I guess they're ready to go by like 7:05 (her mom drives in the morning). Morgan plays the trombone though, so she always brings it (well every other day)and takes FOREVER to walk across the street and into the car. Then she flings her trombone around while she gets in. Seriously we've all been hit IN THE HEAD with it and she's cracked it against the window a few times. Since she has the instrument, and always sits in the front.

Then they come by our house to get me and my sister. Jill goes on to the high school so she can't sit in the back. Which means I have to squuish myself into the back (Matt seriously takes up half of the seats so me and Maria get smooshed together. Half the time I can't even get at my seatbelt!). Everyday. Even when morgan DOESN'T have her trombone, she refuses to move even though Mrs. L has told her countless times that she needs to sit in the back. It drives me INSANE!

Then when we finally reach the school, she takes like 5 minutes to get out (literally). This has resulted in my sister getting 8 tardies - one more and she gets suspended. I've been late a lot too, but since my homeroom teacher hardly ever shows up and we run our own homeroom, it's not a problem.

This has all been a major annoyance, but the latest incedent has really sent me over the edge. It was my moms turn to pick up, so I went to go wait for her. She wasn't there so I texted her and she told me that she was on her way in the parking lot but she was stuck outside because it was so crowded. Then, right while I'm saying something to my friend, Morgan runs up, on the phone with her mom, to say "Is your mom gonna show up? because if she doesn't my mom can come get us." This was at 2:22. School got out at 2:20. I nicely explained that my mom was just stuck outside the parking lot. 2:25 rolls around and Morgan, still on the phone with her mom, asks me again if my mom was going to show up or not. I tell her that my mom IS coming no matter how flaky they thought she was. 2:28 and Morgan says, "Are you SURE your mom is coming? My mom says that if your moms not gonna show up that she can get us" I look out and you can SEE my moms car in the process of turning in. I lost my temper and I just yelled "You can SEE my mom coming in. Will you just SHUTUP and wait?!" My mom got over to us and we ended up leaving the parking lot at around 2:30. Thats the time we normally leave anyways because we have to wait for Morgan to get out. Honestly? I know she has a trombone and her lockers far away from her class, but I get out a minute late most days, my lockers as far away from my class as you can get, and I'm still the first one out there.

I don't know what to do about her. None of us do. We all want to drop the carpool with them but my mom can't pick up everyday and neither can Mrs. L. In the summer me and Maria could easily walk home, but it's about 4" of snow out and like 15*F most days right now so thats not an option. Does anyone have any ideas?

I didn't post this in the kid section because I wanted to see if you moms out there could possibly fathom why Mrs. B was calling my mom a flake for not being there two minutes after school got out.




So...can I smack Morgan and her mom? PLEASE?!?!

[oldhorsehome]

Hold that smack!! For a few minutes anyway

Can the trombone go in the trunk or the back (if it's a van?) Sounds like your mom needs to have a little heart to heart with the other moms. You MUST be able to put a seatbelt on and the trombone bashing needs to stop.

If you can't work it out you might just have to buck up and walk. I know it's cold. I grew up in Toronto and had to walk over a mile to school in the snow (sometimes uphill both ways!!LOL) Sorry. Just being silly. Seriously though, it was over a mile and we didn't get a ride unless it was below 0. Hope you can get things worked out. Sometimes carpools are a pain.

[juniormylove]

She puts it in the back only when her mom picks up. Otherwise it's got to be sitting on OUR laps.
Oh my mom and Mrs. L has tried to talk to Mrs. B but she doesn't listen.

I'd be able to walk home, but right now Marias on the volleyball team so she doesn't come home and then my mom doesn't want me to walk home alone. I'll ask for tomorrow though, because I don't think I can bear the thought of Morgan, especially since she'll have her trombone 0.0

[haunani]

Is there a bus?

[juniormylove]

nope. the people in the SAME neighborhood as us (but across a main street..seriousy like 8 house away not counting the street) get a bus but we don't.

[stephanie]

Is there a way you could ride that bus and walk to your house from there?
I know what you're going through, I really do, but thankfully I wasn't in that position for a long time. I would talk to your mom and try to figure out some sort of agreement.

I play trumbone, it is not that hard to transport it. She should be able to figure it out without hitting too many people on the heads

[juniormylove]

no we're too close to the school to be scheduled to a bus. basically, we're not allowed to take it.

[CJ]

Seems to me like the moms should have a powow @ how to expedite dropoffs, esp if the last one out is risking suspension because of another kid. Sounds like the trombone in & out of the trunk would cut down/ out on a lot of messing around. Somebodys/ shes being inconsiderate of her impact on ther people b/c there is no impact on her. Thats gotta stop/ be stopped. imo if shes dawdling across the street, leave/make her mom take her. Our bus used to drive right past a chronic dawdler.
No wonder youd like to 'impact' her.

[MaggieSue]

She puts it in the back only when her mom picks up. Otherwise it's got to be sitting on OUR laps.

Why??? The driver's car...the driver's rules. Tell the driver to get a spine and tell the kid to put the friggin trombone in the trunk. Then tell her to put her butt in the back seat so everyone can fit. Or she can walk.

[horseyfrk145]

^^^
Sounds good to me!

So sorry that you have to go through all this...