Think it's weird that my neighbours EAT their dinner in the street?

[Esoresila]

I live in a usually quiet cul-de-sac (now I say usually, we do have 2 persistent drug users who are middle-aged women and an old couple who seem to think it's 'normal' to have their ds, dil and GS round to their bungalow 7 days a week from 7.30am till about 9pm).
Now the aformentioned old couple have a tendency to think they 'own' the cul-de-sac they sit out side in all weather's watching their GS (who isn't a nice little boy- he swears and punches other kids) ride around on various powered cars from about 10am till about 8pm weekends and school holidays and then from school finishing time till 8pm during the week.

This isn't just the odd hour here and there it's ALL the stated times!
Now the better weather is here the whole family sit in the road on deck chairs with a parasol up and a kiddie bench for the GS. They have now started encouraging other children (some of their own family's children some that are strategically dumped on them by the lazy mother who would rather be out on her own than watching her 2 kuds and others on the estate) to congregate in our 'quiet' cul-de-sac, (please bear in mind that there are about 12 houses in this area with about 2 cars for each house).
So today it's been a lovely sunny day I went outside to put washing out only to be met with the familiar smell of cannabis from drug addict no1 them to top it off we went out to take our 3 kids to the park only to be met with the old couple their DS, DIL And GS EATING their full Sunday roast on their laps on deck chairs strewn all over the road!
I am definitely no snob but come on surely this is a no-no? Or am I just as my husband puts it 'getting myself worked up over nothing'?

Call channel
4 reckon they would film a documentary in your street

YANBU...Please can we have a photo of them sitting outside....it's hilarious 😂😆

Sounds awful OP and isn't it dangerous for their dc ride motorised vehicles. What about parked cars or drivers. It must be intimidating.

Do they get sun in their back garden?

You are not being unreasonable. What sort of planet do these people live on?! Characters in plays eat their dinner out on the street, not normal functioning humans.

I think the police could do with a tip off about the druggies, to be perfectly honest.

You had my sympathy from "tendency to think they own the cul de sac". Where we used to live our next door neighbours (halls adjoining semis) were like this. Complete nightmare! Think: their grandson encouraged to practise trumpet playing with window open. Our DCs not allowed to play ball games in our own back garden! They were in their late 60s and she'd been born in the house. We moved, reasoning that they were unlikely to.

Can't you get them a house swap to Yorkshire? it's bloody freezing up here and my heating hasn't been off since September. That would put an end to their Sunday dinner outside under a parasol. The gravy would be cold in ten seconds.

I could understand them eating in the garden although it's too hot for a roast here but the road is just odd

I have relatives who are similar, daughters round the grandmas all day with loads of kids. Its because their own houses are shitholes.

A friend of mine eventually managed to sell her house which was amazing as she had all this from her neighbours. Most of them seemed to sleep in the day and spend all night in the street talking, drinking, smoking weed and bellowing and effin and blinding at the kids that wouldn't go to bed because the parents were so loud in the street outside. When she got a buyer she was elated. It may have been one of the same sort of person that lives their lives entirely in the street though? I live really isolated. An occasional buzzard is all I have to put the wind up me. I dread it when I am too old to manage this place and have to move back to civilization

Op do you live in Edinburgh?? 😂😂😂

Eating dinner in the street wouldn't bother me, but openly smoking pot in front of children would.

Perhaps they've sold their dining room furniture to pay for their drug habit

Grotesque. Unfortunately seen it all before.
Flock of trained seagulls?

I remember the lovely drug dealer downstairs.His dear daughter covered in lard lying in a bikini in the car park.
'Lovely day innit?'
etc

I knew this would be Midlands, bet it's somewhere near me

This kind of outdoor lifestyle can be quite liberating.

When we lived in Barcelona we had a huge terrace.

At weekends we used to put all the living room furniture on it; the couches, coffee table, even lamps and a few bits of free standing conceptual art, and after supper spend the night dancing to Louis Armstrong.

SherbrookeFosterer

LouisArmstrong? you mean you can DANCE to that?

jeez.

I also live in a small cul de sac and sit out on my deck chair and watch my children play with the neighbours kids. To be honest, I would eat my lunch whilst watching them if it was a sandwich/salad or something easy to eat as they are entertained and I can eat in relative peace. I would draw the line at a full roast dinner though. Too tricky to use a knife and fork.
Yesterday, I noticed all the kids had gone into one of the gardens to play and I was sat out in my own. I was still in my pjs as we were having a lazy morning! One of the things I love about my street is the fluidity of the children being able to run in and out to see each other and the adults socialise together. Cannabis smoking in the street isn't okay though but I'm not sure there's much you can do about it.

You sound really judgemental. Eating on deckchairs in the street wouldn't bother me, the fact they enjoy their grandchild REALLY wouldn't bother me. What would bother me is the grandchild's behaviour towards other kids and that's the only thing that should concern you in my view.

I don't think I understand the situation, tbh.

So today it's been a lovely sunny day I went outside to put washing out only to be met with the familiar smell of cannabis from drug addict no1 them to top it off we went out to take our 3 kids to the park only to be met with the old couple their DS, DIL And GS EATING their full Sunday roast on their laps on deck chairs strewn all over the road!

So... Does this mean you can see them eating from you backyard or...?

I personally don't think the "street-eating" is the issue. It actually sounds rather picknick-y and quaint. But they do sound extremely unpleasant... Which is obviously an issue!

the dil threatened to punch one last lady who I live by in the face as she asked them to keep their child over by their house as she was nursing her ill husband and didn't want the constant noise then the DS threatened to bring his mates to 'do them over!'

Well, she was the one that started this with her threats of physical violence, didnt she? Or am I missing something?

They sound so random lol

Yes that is pretty weird. Isn't that what gardens are for.

I went outside to put washing out

So, in the front yard? Isn't that just as weird as eating in the street?

YY to picture and YY to Channel 4

I couldn't put up with it. Move?

Drug/aggression related behaviour would be an issue but the restisn't a big deal. It's funny though, I've lived both in the north of England and the west of Scotland and people ate their dinner outside all the time in the good weather, my family included. I've never thought it was weird