I am in very early days of surprise pregnancy. I am tired, I have a very clingy, whingey toddler today and I'm a bit at the end of my tether tbh.
Recently, our local park has become frequently inhabited by teenagers. We try not to go there now, as there simply isn't much room when they are there and, though they're usually reasonably polite if I ask them if my toddler can have a go on whatever it is they are sitting on, it's just a little awkward being there when they are iyswim. We have other parks in the area, so we just go there instead.
Yes, I know there really aren't enough places for teenagers to go and that is shit for them, I was probably just like them at that age etc. However, this particular park has a huge grassy area with loads of seating areas, which are never in use, and also a large skate park where other teenagers hang out sometimes, but which I have never seen busy.
Occasionally they swear a bit, but it's fairly harmless and usually one of them will say "language", and they will stop for a bit at least, so it's ok.
Today, we ended up going to the park in question, as we were passing, and there were a few teenagers there. One swore and I didn't think anything of it, but then she kept going. I love a swear, but this was silly - every other word was fuck and she was doing it as loud as she could, while standing right next to DC. So I asked her politely to stop swearing. She looked at me as if I was quite bonkers, but did stop and then threw DC and me daggers the rest of the time we were at the park.
Now, looking back, I feel like a total grumpy old woman. I hate confrontation and wouldn't normally do this sort of thing. Would you have asked her to stop, or just ignored / left? We'll continue to avoid this park tbh. It's getting horribly run down now anyway, which could be to do with teenagers using it more now, or just coincidence.