Easter egg hunt at 6.30am

I get it’s once a year but there’s no need to be out at 6.30.
Absolutely have an Easter egg hunt but even if the kids were up and excited at 6.30 it’s down to the parents to say no to going out at that time. Seems like the parents want an easy life by not saying no but don’t care about how it impacts others.

It probably was too early. But it’s not crime of the century either.

maybe it’s because I’ve young kids, but I don’t think I’ve ever been so scroogelike to get heated about little children having a bit of fun

and isn’t your house double glazed? You must be a REALLY light sleeper to be woken by a couple of kids in a neighbouring garden. It’s not like you’ll have the windows open.

I also don’t see 6.30 as early. It’s a normal time to get up. Maybe you’d sleep better if you had a more regular pattern😂

Triple glazing is the answer! Haven’t raft.

He was up pretty early because the disciples found the tomb already empty and he’d already been sighted by Thomas before word of the empty tomb got out.

Oh goodness, did this turn into 11 pages of people trying to explain the ""It's what Jesus would have wanted" comment? Shame. Was a pithy little comment and not difficult to understand?

No because I've got real shit to feel guilty and anxious about. Get a grip.

I'm picking on your post because it's the one I've most recently read. Although a garden Easter egg hunt may be 'a few minutes once a year', @AliceAbsolum has said their neighbours are generally inconsiderate with a barking dog and therefore this could be a straw/camel's back situation.

If parents didn’t hype it up so much…

are you always this miserable? Honestly?

its a sad world mate if kids can’t get excited about chocolate eggs.

It was so inconsiderate. It ruined my cup of tea which I like to have after mowing the lawn.

Funny comment

“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

Dh woke me up when he got in from the sunrise service this morning (7:15ish). He apologised and then had the decency to bring me a coffee and a Danish. If your neighbours had done that @AliceAbsolum would that have been better?

If your kids are out making a noise at 6.30 am on a Sunday that is selfish and antisocial behaviour and you are a selfish and anti social parent teaching your kids to be selfish and antisocial.

Why would any parent not be capable of saying " let's leave the outside fun for a little while kids, the neighbours may still be sleeping, let's do something fun inside for a bit and then we'll go out"
Why exactly would that be so hard?

Or maybe it’s once a year and really not that a big deal. If you’re that exhausted don’t go straight on your phone and chill out a bit.

Honestly? I can see why someone wouldn’t be thrilled but it is a few minutes once a year.

I’m quite weirded out by the differences between Christmas and Easter. People start flapping about getting ready for Christmas in mid November, who is going where for Christmas Day becomes a lot of drama, people spend a fortune and eat and drink to excess. By Christmas Day loads of people are exhausted.

Easter is the bigger religious festival but, unless you go to church, it gets treated as a long weekend with some chocolate. It doesn’t get the all bets are off treatment that Christmas does.

@StMarie4me people aren’t complaining that children had an Easter Egg hunt, they are saying it shouldn’t be at 6.30am.

If parents didn’t hype it up so much children wouldn’t be clamouring to be up and screaming at that time.

What Tony Blair would have wanted!!!!!!!!!!

If that is not on every thread from now on I will delete my account and go off in a huff. Im going to shoe horn that into every answer from now.

I've always wondered why an Easter bunny leaves eggs.

"That is also what Jesus would have wanted, he had no time for idiots"
Jesus had time for everyone and he explained things really simply (parables).
Traditionally there'd be a outdoor church service at 6sm and the egg hunt is a reenactment of finding the tomb empty, so sadly that deeply religious family next door, has it right. It's just us pagans who expect to sleep.

You think "its what jesus would have wanted" is unrelated to Easter Sunday?

ah man I'm sorry!

Jesus didn't like idiots, I'm sure.
I just like working out why things are funny - it was a selfish pleasure, sorry!

I didn’t ask anyone to to be fair. Just a bit baffled at all the posters howling!

I really really really hate it when people have to explain a joke. It ruins the thread and the joke

I wish people would just ignore the person who doesnt get it.

That is also what Jesus would have wanted, he had no time for idiots.

That makes a bit more sense @Shithotlawyer . I haven’t really seen much of ‘it’s what X would have wanted.’

I loved that joke, it was a perfect example of the genre as "it's what they would have wanted" is always shorthand for "I'm going to do something I want to do that's wrong but I am justifying it with reference to something you can't gainsay". Usually in relation to a dead relative and some kind of selfish behaviour. So because it's so incongruous that Jesus would like people to eat chocolate eggs, it works. (Though the person who wrote suffer the little children is even cleverer).

I apologise as I have now killed the joke by over explaining, unlike Jesus it won't rise again.