[Sussex] Lollipop Ladies

[TomandJerry]

First time in a long time I made use of a lollipop lady, which got my juices flowing...

Are there still as many Lollipop Ladies around these days?

Have you used their services recently? Even if at all?

 

[Springal]

Yep see them regularly round here but also not exclusively a job for women anymore !

 

[Rogero]

Mrs Moss was my school lollipop lady

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

First time in a long time I made use of a lollipop lady, which got my juices flowing...

Are there still as many Lollipop Ladies around these days?

Have you used their services recently? Even if at all?

Are we talking about the people who help get kids across roads? Or something else

 

[The Clamp]

They’ve been Americanised and are now called Crossing Guards. According to their indeed job advert anyway.

Not sure how the get anyone’s “juices flowing”?

My recollection is they are usually ageing dinner lady types looking to make a bit of money in retirement.

 

[studio150]

Can't recall the last time I saw one and using one would be even further back in time.
I thought they had all been pensioned off given that all children seem to be driven to the school gates.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

The Lollipop man at one of my junior school St Marys in Datchet got knocked down by a Rolls Royce and died right there in the middle of the road, that was kinds harrowing at the time.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

When I was lad, Old Ma DCH was the lollipop lady by St Andrews Church in Tarring for the old Thomas a Becket Middle school. She was a bit of a firebrand and on a few occasions got into arguments which drivers who wouldn't stop as she would hit their cars with her metal pole. Of course, when it was pointed out to the driver that if they wanted to involve the police and the parents around were witnesses that the driver had not stopped, they soon backed down.

After he had retired, my Dad became a lollipop man, first at Durrington Middle School and then on Wiston Avenue for the new site of Thomas A Becket Middle school. He was the first lollipop person in West Sussex to be given a camera to wear on duty to catch motorists who didn't stop so maybe there is something about my parents that made people want to run them over!

When my Dad retired from that role, the sheer volume of cards and gifts was unbelievable. He could probably have opened an off licence and sweet shop with the number of bottles etc he received.

 

[Is it PotG?]

We had a friendly old chap called Fred, for many years.
Used to hand out sweets without any of the attached cynicism of the dark modern day, and was always up for a bit of banter.
Only if his cap was removed by a third party, or God forbid his main tool of work temporarily stolen then he could, understandably, turn a little frosty.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Yep see them regularly round here but also not exclusively a job for women anymore !

Exactly. These days they have to be called 'Non-Gender Specific Road Crossing Facilitators'*

*Not really, but that's probably something that 'anti-woke' insufferable bellends would have you believe.

To the OP, I see one or two each day (both blokes, I believe) that I drive Bobkin Jnr to school. They do a fine job

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Yep see them regularly round here but also not exclusively a job for women anymore !

What being a lollipop lady isn’t an exclusive job for ladies?!

 

[stewart12]

my sons school in East Preston have one

 

[Commander]

Can't recall the last time I saw one and using one would be even further back in time.
I thought they had all been pensioned off given that all children seem to be driven to the school gates.

There is one at my kids school. And pretty much all the kids walk there.

 

[British Bulldog]

 

[Triggaaar]

First time in a long time I made use of a lollipop lady, which got my juices flowing...

Are there still as many Lollipop Ladies around these days?

Have you used their services recently? Even if at all?

There's one on Portland Road who had no idea how to let traffic flow. They'll stop cars and let everyone cross, and then just as they're about to let cars go, they'll pop back onto the road because a pedestrian 10 metres away might want to cross.

I've never seen anything like it, they just cause a massive queue.

 

[The Clamp]

There's one on Portland Road who had no idea how to let traffic flow. They'll stop cars and let everyone cross, and then just as they're about to let cars go, they'll pop back onto the road because a pedestrian 10 metres away might want to cross.

I've never seen anything like it, they just cause a massive queue.

Yes, they do seem somewhat lacking in common sense. I am all for pedestrians having a bit of priority at school times but non point having traffic backing up for a mile while we wait for Little Johnny Slowcoach to make it to the crossing.

 

[boik]

"......not long now before lollipop men are called Darren."

 

[Coldeanseagull]

They’ve been Americanised and are now called Crossing Guards. According to their indeed job advert anyway.

Not sure how the get anyone’s “juices flowing”?

My recollection is they are usually ageing dinner lady types looking to make a bit of money in retirement.

We don't want any of them jobs worth american types round here thankyouverymuch.
Lolliepop ladies and lolliepop men, as they carry a f*** off big lolliepop

 

[el punal]

They’ve been Americanised and are now called Crossing Guards. According to their indeed job advert anyway.

Not sure how the get anyone’s “juices flowing”?

My recollection is they are usually ageing dinner lady types looking to make a bit of money in retirement.

Bollocks to the Americanisation of OUR Lollipop Ladies! These gentle souls dressed up in their oversized Trebor Fruit Salad attire of hat, coat and trousers in sweat inducing plastic to be worn in all weathers - just hope there isn’t a nearby front garden with pampas grass growing.

P.S. Crossing Guard - my arse!

 

[crodonilson]

We have a number of crossing guards at our local primary school and a fine job they do too. Sadly as with many other public services they are becoming fewer and fewer, see below this sad story.

Lollipop man, 93, who has been doing job for 24 years is sacked overnight

Romford’s Alfred Tollon said his job helped keep him motivated after his wife died.

metro.co.uk