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Would this bother you? Or am i being precious?

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PitYacker · 11/06/2023 13:34

New next door neighbours, middle aged couple but have grandchildren there a lot, like weeks at a time as they live in a different part of the country.
The lad, all through the half term holiday, would throw his football backwards over his head and into my garden on purpose, repeatedly. So he had to come in repeatedly to retrieve it. Annoying, but i let it go.

This morning he came in my garden to use as a hiding place from his sister. No ball involved. Just using it as an extension to his grandparents garden! He was mooching about round the bush by my front window, where birds are nesting, then he came up to my window, cupped the sides of his face then peering right into my living room.

Am I unreasonable to find this really intrusive? I understand there will be people telling me to get a grip and they really wouldn't get worked about minding their own business in their own house while an 11 year old boy was pressed up against the window watching you, am i being too uptight to let this bother me? I am a private person anyway...

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Shinyandnew1 · 11/06/2023 18:50

Nobody can just walk into gardens round here without going through the house. I would hate that and it’s a real security risk-does it invalidate your household insurance?!

Get a lock asap!

I’d give the ball back to his grandparents and say he’s deliberately throwing it into your garden and could they please ask him to stop.

piedbeauty · 11/06/2023 20:15

Of course YANBU! Is he all right? That's really odd behaviour for an 11yo.

Go round to see the grandparents and tell them what's been going on.

I'd have gone out to him today and told him to fuck off, then marched him back to his GPS. What a weirdo.

piedbeauty · 11/06/2023 20:17

LittleBlueBrioTrain · 11/06/2023 17:00

I'd be waiting under the window ready to pop up with a Scream mask on. Or at the upstairs window with a bucket of water.

😂😂😂

Brefugee · 11/06/2023 20:19

Tell them, while he is there, that he is not to come into your garden for any reason.

If any balls come over, you can give him a half hour window twice a week where he may ring your bell and ask for them back.

Any transgressions and you will be keeping/stabbing the balls.

Porkipye · 11/06/2023 20:19

Have a word with the parents just say the ball is damaging your plants and get a lock got the gate .

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