Holy carp fish! I think I'm turning into that neighbor... you know, the one that doesn't blink an eye over turning the hose on your kids for playing in his yard...
well, not quite that bad... yet. but I can soo see myself doing it...
there I am, outside, painting my house and this gagle of neighborhood kids comes up the street with a dog, who isn't on a leash. They go onto my neigbors yard (who aren't home) and sit around laughing and pointing as my neighbors dog, who is leashed in their front yard, is play fighting with the dog they had with them. I know that the dog belongs to one of the kids (who was about 7 or 8) and that the dog is supposed to stay in its yard when the parents aren't home...
After a few minutes, the neighbors dog breaks loose and starts running around. eventually the kids catch the dog, put him back in his yard and go back down the street with the other dog.
about 10 minutes later 3 of the kids come back and want to know if they can play in the grass in my front yard. so what do I tell them? NO.
None of what they did was all that bad. Hell, I did worse in my neighborhood as a kid. But I've finally got a blinding look into the head of the neighbors who I always thought were jerks.
But I'm about this close [holds two fingers up to the screen] to tracking down their parents and really being an asshole over them teaching their kids to respect other peoples property.
Indiefilm posted on Sep 06, 2006
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rosietx1 said on Sep 07, 2006....
I *SO* know what you mean! I'm the mean lady in the neioghborhood, I'm only 37, but I'm a tattler. I'll call your parents. I'll call the cops. I'll tak pictures of you doing things you're not supposed to and memail them to your parents. I will chase you out my my yard. *sigh* I suk. It's not that I don't like kids, I do, but like you noticed, they have no freaking respect. And befriending them only leads to broken thinds, stolen things, hurt dogs or lost dogs, or dents and scratches in the truck.... it's just not worth it. Luskily there aren't really and kids in the neighborhood anymore. There were, but I think they either grew up or moved away. All my neighbord now have dogs... we all get along very well!
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
I'm a bit younger... but I feel like the grouchy old man on the block. Probably because I don't have kids. If I did, I'd have gotten to know all the kids in the neighborhood and their parents.
As it stands, I don't know what kind of people the kids parents are. I'm honestly more concerned with one of them getting hurt on my property and getting sued by their parents. It's a liability I don't want to have to deal with.
The last place I lived may have jaded me a bit on the subject too. while I couldn't prove it, I'm dead certain that the kid living next door punctured one of my tires while my wife and I were on a vacation. I was livid...
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secretlife said on Sep 07, 2006....
wellllllllllll- i have kids. I know and like my neighbors and their kidsfor the most part anyway
I tend to be pretty tolerant of them because of course we've got things in common bratty kids lol
Sometimes they just do things that don't sit right with you and you get cranky about it.
Hey, that doesn't make you a bad person...
Maybe just a 'tad' like Mr. Wilson though!
Actually it would've been funny if you'd turned on the hose.
In my old house, it was the adults I had the issues with. Mostly surrounding lack of common courtesy - walking their dogs and not cleaning up after them, changing a tire in front of my house and leaving the old one on my lawn, loud music - so loud my house would shake at midnite while i had babies...
Behind every rude and disrespectful child, I do believe you will find a rude and disrespectful adult.
Indie maybe you could hose the parents?
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
"Behind every rude and disrespectful child, I do believe you will find a rude and disrespectful adult."
and sometimes you find two of them... It's either the parents, or some other role model who sets the example. But it's always the parents or guardian's who 'don't see it' or ignore it.
I think the parents are already hosed enough, or possibly hosered is more appropriate...
The neighborhood kids around here are not all that bad, fortunetly. The last place I lived the kids took after the parents, and the parents were... well... whats a polite way to say royal fucking dickheads who treated their kids like crap and had no respect for themselves or their children, much less their neighbors? Not very nice people...
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secretlife said on Sep 07, 2006....
Indie: You are having FAR too much fun today!
smile and make friends with the kiddies then; maybe they won't egg your house on mischief night
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
SL: Don't I know it!
yeah, befriend the kids, and have the parents start to wonder bout that skinny white guy who plays with all the neigborhood kids... they'd probably think I'm a pedophile... must be, in this day and age if their not your kids and you talk to them your a wierdo.... But I do try to be nice to them, I resist butting in as much as possible and try to treat them like people rather than idiots. I think that generally helps
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