Neighbours complaining about reindeer food

[wasteful26]

Elder dc bought a bag of porridge on Xmas Eve to mix with glitter with their younger siblings and put out for the “reindeer”
As dc do on Xmas Eve they got carried away and as well as putting the food in our front garden they sprinkled it on the public road.
A neighbour who we do not know by name but to smile at had posted on the local FB page complaining about the mess which went over our heads but he then confronted dh in the street today when he was getting in his car.
Because of the old dry weather the porridge is still laying in the street.
Dh being his usual non diplomatic self wasn’t exactly friendly towards neighbour.
Ive no intentions of going out with a brush and shovel for what is a few handfuls of oats and it’s to rain in the next few days anyway but am wondering if this is something that others would be upset about in their street?

"It got rained on and looked like vomit on the pavement."

You'd have to wonder what they'd been eating to produce glittery vomit 😆

On a serious note, though, OP, clean up your mess. You made it, so your responsibility to clean it up. And apologise to your neighbour, too. You're in the wrong.

Why on earth would you spread glitter around its literally littering plastic everywhere. One of our neighbors have done the same and it's ended up all over our drive is covered in glitter and keeps getting walked into the house. We have little kids, I still don't appreciate it. We spread oats in our back garden no need for the plastic in it!

You should clean up the street. It's a public highway and you're dropping litter. While you're at it educate your children about not dropping litter as well.

And the very same I was responding to….do try and keep up 🙄

Two hundred posters sanctimoniously bloviating (for you, @SayWhatty 😁) about how the OP has single handedly destroyed the planet by:

1. murdering all nearby flora and fauna
2. summoning rats with greater efficiency than the Pied Piper
3. Turning surrounding streets into a slurry of gloopy porridge

is not remotely the same thing as me pointing out that some of you are miserable fuckers, unable to eek out the Christmas cheer beyond the 26 December 🙄🙄

Bloody hell!

Your DH sounds like a twat

Agree - sound like a pair of entitled twats to me

This, definitely!

Hopefully the birds won't be harmed but if there is any justice they will shit glitter all over his car!

Shouldn’t reindeer food be out on the roof anyway?

As much as I hate whingy local facebook groups and the tyranny of the unelected narcissists who run them, that stuff really shouldn’t have been left on the pavement.
Please clean up your mess!

Sounds a bit feral? Even just throwing it in your garden is going to attract rats.

Whereas you sound full of the joys 😆

Sweep it up. Sorted. ✔️

Just clean it up you made the mess

For the ones saying it’ll attract vermin no it won’t if it’s only done once a year.

rubbish, food bits have to be ongoing for months to attract them as it’s then a reliable food source.

now my question is where is the OP cos I’m now inclined to think this was a wind up.

OP isn’t coming back, is she. Perhaps she’s got stuck down in porridge.

Indeed I absolutely am 😊

I just have no patience for dickhead men posting nobbish passive aggressive comments on Facebook and trying to pick fights and intimidate neighbours at Christmas. Over a handful of bloody reindeer dust.

I mean seriously who can be arsed?!

God I'm glad you're not my neighbours.

Apologies, had an unexpected double shift to do today so not had time to come back.
I’m smiling at all the posts calling me lazy from people who have been able to eagerly await my update on mumsnet over the last 24 hours 😉
Yes the glitter was edible as eldest dc is a keen baker and it came out of her supplies.
No I’ve not been out to clean it up, it rained earlier so I’d probably have to get the pressure washer out which would only confirm that I was “that” neighbour if I make noise at this time of night.
Instead I’m sitting having a 🍷, ironically a Christmas present from a neighbour as I do her bins for her each week due to illness 😁
Good night 🥂

Get it cleaned up tomorrow then.

The beauty of retrospection with a large dollop of self-righteousness.

Next year, take the kids away for Christmas and get the shooters in to deal with the deer problem.

Unfortunately edible glitter is not safe for wildlife.

The man might be sick and tired of it happening every year for all we know, or it could be that the OP and her kids behave in similarly entitled ways all year round…He might have a dog that might eat the glitter - lots of things…he isn’t necessarily the aggressive knobhead you’re assuming him to be.