Not even a teensy little inch

I've always found it frustrating that even though I am a complete play-by-the-rules, do-it-by-the-book, respect-the-law (okay, you get the idea) person, I can never get away with anything. I mean nothing. Some people I know openly flout rules of any kind. They never seem to get caught. I obsess over following the rules. I can't even think about skating close to the edge of approaching a little bend in the rules, or I get completely busted.

Yesterday morning, I pulled into the drop off zone at school to let the kids out. Being me, I'm familiar with all the rules and protocol of this procedure. The road is three cars wide, with parking on the other side. To drop off, I pull into the marked zone, right up against the curb. I happen to be the first car in line. A couple cars pull in behind me. The kids get out, I wave, and watch them start to walk in. As I prepare to inch forward very slowly (the crosswalk is just ahead) I let my foot off the brake as I look in the side mirror. I see a car coming (a little too fast) so I brake again. I have moved, I swear, three inches. Against the curb. Not steering out into the road at all. At 0.5 miles per hour. In the drop off zone where cars are constantly moving forward. There is a cop sitting in his car on the other side of the street. He gives me the grandmother of all dirty looks. I roll my window down, because I see he's upset about something. He looks at me and says, "Yeah, ma'am, if you put your turn signal on, then people will know you're about to pull out." Then he shakes his head and rolls his eyes. Like I'm a total idiot and menace on the road. I look ahead of me, to the car that passed me--did I mention it was going maybe a little too fast for a school zone? Right past the cop? It's now pulled over ahead of the crosswalk in a NO PARKING zone, marked with signs and brightly painted yellow curbs. Blocking traffic from moving either direction. I'm wondering if the driver used a turn signal to indicate she was pulling over to the illegal spot.