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Long tale ahead,
Before I start this thread I would like to point I'm no Victor Meldrew far from it and I know all kids need to play out more but as of late and not just because it's Easter holidays all the kids from right around the street and further started to congregate outside my house playing football screaming shouting all the usual stuff. One of the kids is a neighbors daughter is not allowed off the front of her house so every kids in the neighborhood call to play there well when I say there I mean outside mine.
You kind of put up with it but when it's yards from your living room window and the football is clattering against the car then you have to draw a line.
These are not teenagers by the way just kids aged roughly 8-13 scooters bikes football so in fairness you got to be lenient but after a about 8-12 months of it I had to ask them go up the street were they all live and give us a break.
The kids were OK about it but next day their all back as per usual. If they had no ball or kept it down I wouldn't give a toss tbh but when the girls start screaming top note it's ear piercing. One of my neighbors daughters is amongst them so I mentioned it to him that the TV goes up at a night and he smiled and said, "Were OK, we sit at the back in the conservatory". He said it in a smug kind of way as if to put 2 fingers up to me.
Now I'm not for kicking a fuss with kids and neighbors of kids but I'm feeling like a mediator treading on rice paper trying to ask them not to play with the football and calm the screaming down at night.
Because of the age of the kids the one parent of a girl, close neighbor doesn't even let them go to the big park 200 yards from the house with football facilities and swings they prefer to have them within feet of my window. I 'd say to keep an eye on them but the one kids mum and dad are sat outback so why the hell they want them out front is beyond me. One evening when I told them to move on it's getting late the young girl went in telling the parents I'd sent them away and she had no one tro play with, the Dad wasn't best pleased but I bet his TV weren't on 9
The other problem is, theirs that many up to 15 at a time that when you drive into the street round a blind bend you have to basically ask them can you drive down the road and some stupid kid was playing chicken the other night. I know one will get hit for sure it's only a matter of time. Then to top it , my cars got a 5ft scratch straight down the side. Now I cant say if it was them or not but one day it didn't the next it did was it them ? I can't honestly say.
Like I said, the kids aren't bad kids and the parents aint either but how the hell do you get peace at a night when its affecting you. Me and the missus fearful of the summer and the long nights especially the hols when they'll be left out till 10-11. I know for a fact I won't hold back and a neighbor fall out is imminent unless something changes.
Like I said at the start, I fully understand kids and playing I did it, we all did it but on the same token we would play in different area's these kids head for one area, mine and rarely do they play anywhere else in fact, I can't remember a rainless evening were we have been noise free. Is anyone else in the same boat and how do you deal with it ?
Before I start this thread I would like to point I'm no Victor Meldrew far from it and I know all kids need to play out more but as of late and not just because it's Easter holidays all the kids from right around the street and further started to congregate outside my house playing football screaming shouting all the usual stuff. One of the kids is a neighbors daughter is not allowed off the front of her house so every kids in the neighborhood call to play there well when I say there I mean outside mine.
You kind of put up with it but when it's yards from your living room window and the football is clattering against the car then you have to draw a line.
These are not teenagers by the way just kids aged roughly 8-13 scooters bikes football so in fairness you got to be lenient but after a about 8-12 months of it I had to ask them go up the street were they all live and give us a break.
The kids were OK about it but next day their all back as per usual. If they had no ball or kept it down I wouldn't give a toss tbh but when the girls start screaming top note it's ear piercing. One of my neighbors daughters is amongst them so I mentioned it to him that the TV goes up at a night and he smiled and said, "Were OK, we sit at the back in the conservatory". He said it in a smug kind of way as if to put 2 fingers up to me.
Now I'm not for kicking a fuss with kids and neighbors of kids but I'm feeling like a mediator treading on rice paper trying to ask them not to play with the football and calm the screaming down at night.
Because of the age of the kids the one parent of a girl, close neighbor doesn't even let them go to the big park 200 yards from the house with football facilities and swings they prefer to have them within feet of my window. I 'd say to keep an eye on them but the one kids mum and dad are sat outback so why the hell they want them out front is beyond me. One evening when I told them to move on it's getting late the young girl went in telling the parents I'd sent them away and she had no one tro play with, the Dad wasn't best pleased but I bet his TV weren't on 9
The other problem is, theirs that many up to 15 at a time that when you drive into the street round a blind bend you have to basically ask them can you drive down the road and some stupid kid was playing chicken the other night. I know one will get hit for sure it's only a matter of time. Then to top it , my cars got a 5ft scratch straight down the side. Now I cant say if it was them or not but one day it didn't the next it did was it them ? I can't honestly say.
Like I said, the kids aren't bad kids and the parents aint either but how the hell do you get peace at a night when its affecting you. Me and the missus fearful of the summer and the long nights especially the hols when they'll be left out till 10-11. I know for a fact I won't hold back and a neighbor fall out is imminent unless something changes.
Like I said at the start, I fully understand kids and playing I did it, we all did it but on the same token we would play in different area's these kids head for one area, mine and rarely do they play anywhere else in fact, I can't remember a rainless evening were we have been noise free. Is anyone else in the same boat and how do you deal with it ?
