To tell the teenagers sitting on my wall to clear off

[sandrabedminster]

This has never happened before, but a group of 10 are sat on my wall in my front garden. Im supposed to be out but I opened the front door saw them, gave them a frown and went back inside.

Wwyd really?

I meant the OP Margot!

I would either say if they want to sit there could they please be very quiete because baby was sleeping, or open my window and play Mozart rather loudly.

I had this in a house I used to live in, every bloody day, sometimes also at lunchtime leaving crisp packets, being noisey all normal "teenage" behaviour I'm sure (spitting was very annoying as was the gum trail) was very annoying on my wall in my garden and distupting my peace and quiet.

Asked them really politely to move and got swore at, with many a hand gesture so delightful - so called their school and low and behold they soon were never seen again.

Hose pipe is a much better idea :)

Ha ha I'm always yelling at teenagers to go away from kicking balls at my house or running around my car. But then I'm a secondary school teacher so they don't scare me 😁

:o Merrylegs

I once had a group of screechy girls er, screeching, outside my house. I was severely sleep-deprived and out-screeched the lot of them out of the window telling them to shut up. Not my finest moment but they haven't been back

What would you do if they were old people?. Old people don't hang around street corners in packs, do they?? They're old enough to drink their cider in pubs

Bloody hell some of you are horrible?

Would you be out with the hosepipe if it were a bunch of pensioners kittens or swearing at them in that case Ezzie ?

They are just people sitting on a wall. Presumably they are doing the wall no harm and not even being noisy if sandra didn't know they were there until she saw them.

If for some reason it offends you to have people sit on your wall tell them to go somewhere else - it is your wall, YANBU to ask them not to sit on it I guess, but unless they are doing damage or making a lot of noise I am wondering why it even bothers you.

I tell teenagers to go home from the playground by our house after 11pm on the rare occasions they decide to hang out there, and they always do leave when I ask them. I couldn't care less what wall they sit on in the early evening though, as long as they aren't dropping rubbish into my garden I'd just say hello.

Little known fact no. 27

If you see a green iron box at the side of the road, it is called a Utilities Cabinet and is probably full of telephone and cable TV connectors, sometimes electricity, rarely gas. You will notice the top is pirched or sloping, like a roof. This is not, as you are supposed to assume, to throw the rain off. It is to stop people sitting on it.

Use to happen to me until I put this on the wall.

I just frowned at a group of teenagers sitting on my front and eating sausage rolls (eating in public! ) and discussing wrestling, complete with wrestling moves demonstrations. Bloody annoying, they are.

Shame they're mine and I can't tell them to go away

The double posting is annoying me!

You don't need to be rude to them, unless they are rude first

Teenagers congregate. It's pretty much the first rule of being a teenager

Just adopt a friendly tone and tell then that you need your all back

need your wall back

Lordy

Just be careful how you address them OP. If you're abrasive, you might get a brick through the window.

Voice of experience here. ('Nice' area too.)

Your children will be them one day, so better get into practice.

Just go out there, smile at them and ask them if they could help you lift something heavy in the shed. If they do, start talking about how hard it is to do things like mow the lawn, oh but I bet a lovely strong lad like you could do it easily couldn't you? Big beaming smile. They'll soon clear off.

Plant something really spikey (like berberis) behind it. that'll stop them

Piglet We had one of those in my primary school, and it was our favourite place to sit ;)
Misses point of thread as my house seems to be the meeting place for teen DSs friends, all of whom have Very Noisy Cars.
But they're all dead polite when I ask them to turn their fucking crap music down ;)

God MN is so anti teenager isn't it?

Are we supposed to be so ageist....

I hated groups of teenagers when I was a small child.
I hated groups of teenagers when I was a teenager
I don't much like them now.

Nothing to do with MN or ageism.

'Hate'?

What a fucking ridiculous thing to say