to go and ask the man on the accordion outside my window to go away....

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A man has been sat on the bench outside my office since 11am playing his accordion...... he's not very good and most of it sounds like the birdie song.

My head hurts

Would it be unreasonable to ask him to go away?

Anyone have any ideas?!

Throw a cabbage at him? Go outside in your dressing gown and slippers and sing along really badly? Take him a weetabix sandwich to give him a thirst that would slay a camel and he'll have to toddle off to find a drink?
That's a heck of a long time to listen to someone's out of tune warblings.

Is it actually your office?

If so then yes, ask him to move on.

If not, then ask whoever you work for to move him on.

I used to work in a shop years ago and the busker outside only knew 5 bloody songs...after a couple of hours I had the urge to pull his knackers out through his nostrils

Sorry, office, not house - scrap my ideas then

Go and ask him if he can play 'over the hill and far away'.

I did wonder why she'd be working in her dressing gown and slippers, but didn't like to ask

Yes its my office but unsure if I have any rights to move him on as he's on the pavement (we're on the high street).

I think everyone would be a bit surprised if I turned up in my dressing gown, PJ's and slippers maybe not that surprised

Its actually very hard to work out if he knows more than 1 song as he doesn't every stop its pretty much continuous and all sounds the same to me

needed I think!!

Fenton

If it gets really bad I suppose you could ring the council and ask if he's got a licence.

Mind you, if he hasn't then he'll probably move on as soon as you ask him to anyway.

Its like the Mumsnetters have telepathy - he has packed up and gone!

Worra 4 and a half hours of it is bad in my book....

Take a clipboard, nip out the back and round, and ask to see his licence. If he produces one tell him it's a fake, and to go to the town hall immediately and not to come back until he has a real one, and just this once you'll let him off the spot fine of £60... (if he hasn't got one at all, leave his escape route clear so he can leg it when you tell him you need all his details so you can issue the on the spot fine...

doh! too late...

I bet he's a multi-tasking MN poster

Anyone else waiting for a thread telling us how ungrateful some people are?

He will be back.... he was here last week too but not as long.

Pour a bucket of cold water out of the window.

I might tape off the bench next week with crime scene tape so he can't sit on it to play....