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AIBU?

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to be fed up of balls in my garden from next door?

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nomoreballs · 31/07/2013 19:41

Nearly everyday at least one ball gets thrown over the fence. The record was 5 in one day! I used to pick them up each time and throw them back but I am getting annoyed by it. If the kids are in the garden when I throw them back they never say thanks.

I had plans to get a greenhouse before they moved in but it's not worth even considering.

A few days ago I gave up throwing them back. I counted 4 balls in my garden this morning (plus one more that my dog was chewing on.)

Neither the kids or the parents have said anything yet. AIBU?

OP posts:

weisswusrt · 05/08/2013 16:06

Exactly notally, and nobody forced the brats to then pick up the ball and rub the shit in their eyes. Sorry folks, but zero shame felt here.

Rhino71 · 05/08/2013 16:37

Weisswusrt.. Fuck off

weisswusrt · 05/08/2013 16:38

Um, no.

Sparklingbrook · 05/08/2013 16:39

Well what a lovely thread. Eww at all these gardens covered in dog poo.

libertine73 · 05/08/2013 16:42

Yes, this is going well isn't it?!

Sparklingbrook · 05/08/2013 16:43

Another bonkers day on MN.

LackingEnergy · 05/08/2013 16:46

There are areas of the garden that shock horror dog owners let their dogs poo in That poo may only be picked up once a day/every few days. So there is a risk of balls landing in poo, I would never deliberately smear poo on a ball but I won't wipe it off if the ball lands in a pile.

If your childs potential contact with dog poo bothers you then you'll keep ball games to your garden or in a park/field if your child can't keep balls in their garden :)

Sparklingbrook · 05/08/2013 16:48

Every few days?

LackingEnergy · 05/08/2013 16:54

We have 3 large dogs and an area of garden specifically for them to poo in. Ds never goes in this area and the poo is picked up every day, but if you only have one dog or one or two small ones then you really don't need to pick it up every day if you don't have kids

Sparklingbrook · 05/08/2013 16:59

I vaguely remember it from childhood. My Mother wandering up the garden with dog poo on the end of a shovel to the dog toilet at the bottom of the garden that my Dad built and dog ignored. Sometimes the dog ate it.

I think that might be why I am not a dog owner now.

Ham69 · 05/08/2013 17:32

Weiss, you sound lovely.
"Lazy parenting letting a child kick a ball about in the garden." Are you serious?
I spend hours at parks, libraries, etc., with my DC. But sometimes, all my 6 year old DS wants to do is kick a ball about in the garden. I love the way you say you're old fashioned. Of course, children didn't kick a ball about in the good old days! Get over yourself.

weisswusrt · 05/08/2013 17:53

Nice editing of my post, ham.....quote properly if you want to get bitchy.

babybythesea · 05/08/2013 18:05

I've changed my views since my grandparents got new neighbours.
I used to be of the 'it's just kids, throw it back and what's the harm?' school of thought.
But I've changed my mind.

My grandparents are in their 90s (91 and 97 to be precise) and are still more than capable of living in their own home. My granddad (the 97 year old) still loves to garden although he has a gardener now to help with the heavier stuff.
They have new neighbours. With that has come balls over fence and demands to return them. They're in their 90s and don't want to be hopping up and down to return the balls, or to answer the door several times a day when the child wants her ball back. Neither do they want the plants they've spent 50 years tending battered. They can't let the child in to get her own ball - they've got a little dog who a) can't see and is spooked easily b) doesn't like children and c) might get out if she forgets to close the gate.
And they especially don't appreciate her jumping up and down on her trampoline, pushed right up against their fence, watching them in their garden and asking them if they could get her ball now.

They've spoken to her mother. She can't see the problem with her daughter using her trampoline as a way to see into their garden and has said to just ignore her if they don't want to give her ball back. Which is easier said than done if they are sitting outside having a cup of tea and she's leaping up and down calling out at them.

Salmotrutta · 05/08/2013 18:11

Anyone who deliberately covered a child's ball in dog crap would be lower down the evolutionary chain than a flatworm.

And if anyone had done anything like that to me or mine they'd have been very, very sorry.

I don't really swear on here much so I won't call you what I'd like to weisswurt. I'll just think it instead. I will, however, point out that you must be a really nasty piece of work to do that.

I would eventually get fed up of returning footballs etc. especially if they caused damage but I'd speak to the parent and let them know if damage had been caused.

Sparklingbrook · 05/08/2013 18:14

I presumed everyone took their dogs to our local junior football pitches for a crap anyway-not in their back gardens. Someone has to go round with the 'poo shovel' prior to kick off. Because believe it or not, children don't want to handle a ball covered in dog poo.

LackingEnergy · 05/08/2013 18:29

I presumed everyone took their dogs to our local junior football pitches for a crap anyway-not in their back gardens. Someone has to go round with the 'poo shovel' prior to kick off

Eww :(

I don't like picking up my own dogs poop at the best of times, I'd hate having to pick up other peoples dog poop too

weisswusrt · 05/08/2013 18:30

News flash salmo, not everyone in life is a pushover willing to toss balls back never-endingly. You think calling me nasty hurts?? Not one bit, I own my mean streak, and work it like a pro!

Sparklingbrook · 05/08/2013 18:32

It's bizarre Lacking the pitches are all marked out with white paint. it would be horrible but not as bad if it was on the bits not marked out, but always in the goalmouth.

Football coaches shouldn't have to do that.

Sorry for dog poo tangent.

Salmotrutta · 05/08/2013 18:33

I'm not willing to never ending lay throw balls back multiple times a day.

But I wouldn't be vindictive either.

You carry on working that mean streak like a pro though...

Until someone meaner comes along.

HoikyPoiky · 05/08/2013 18:33

My neighbours kids kicked thins over the fence most days. I didnt mind but I didn't race out to throw them straight back either. I threw them back when it suited me. If they were polite I would have made more of an effort.

Salmotrutta · 05/08/2013 18:34

never-endingly!

weisswusrt · 05/08/2013 18:48

Salmo, your nose would be getting rubbed in shit along with four gates if you think you could make me 'very sorry'.

Salmotrutta · 05/08/2013 18:56

Oh, OK, you win weiss.

You have run rings round me with your dazzling repartee.

Salmotrutta · 05/08/2013 18:57

I'm not going to further de-rail the thread- sorry OP.

Sparklingbrook · 05/08/2013 18:59

I think the train of the thread was derailed at the first mention of dog poo TBH Salmo. It has now careered off the track completely.

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