Trampoline Ettiquette

[BouncethfOFF]

We've just moved into a new house and we're trying to think where to erect the kid's trampoline.
I want to put it up round the corner (L shaped garden) so we don't have the eyesore of having it directly outside our living room window..
OH says that if we put it round the corner it'll be impacting on the neighbors because it overlooks their garden, which isn't fair on them.

Who's right?

BouncethfOFF
If it was overlooking my parent garden your kids would get accidentally hosed.

You would seriously do this?

I would, with as much thought for your DC as you have for your neighbours. Actually I would be using the hose morning, afternoon and evening 'accidentally' drenching your trampolene thus rendering it unusable and assisting it to rot and rust.

Hopefully your neighbours are on here and find this a useful idea

But if it’s round the corner, one of you has to be round the corner (in the freezing cold) supervising.

If it’s by your deck, you can supervise through the window, from your armchair, with a glass of wine in your hand. No brainier, I feel.

Utterly self-centred. YABVU.

Kings...I don't think the op is planning on supervising. Many parents of trampoline kids don't!!!

Right next to your house so you get the full force of the irritating noise and screams.

I don't watch them all the time. They're not small children. They're pre-teens so I won't be stood out in the freezing cold supervising.

Wow. The utter twattery of some selfish cunts never ceases to amaze me.

Friends were on the receiving end of this, their neighbours sited their trampoline overlooking our friends' garden, away from their parents' outdoor sitting area. It was sorted, friend's husband sunbathed nude for a couple of afternoons, it was soon moved!

To be honest it's very selfish of you. Your elderly neighbours may not say anything but I guarantee you will be judged for it by the rest of neighbours when they hear what you have done, which of course they will,
However that sounds like it wouldn't be a problem for you l.

Trampolines are the work of the devil!

My daughter sustained an open fracture of the tibia and fibula on a trampoline in an organised competition at school aged 12. She required four operations, was in hospital for three weeks and off school for months and her leg still isn't right 13 years later.

Most orthopaedic surgeons wouldn't let their own children have a trampoline. So I suggest that you do supervise them op no matter how cold it is or better still don't have one at all.

I think you are being selfish and inconsiderate, @BouncethfOFF. You don’t want to,put up with the view and the noise, so you are going to inflict it on your elderly neighbours, without giving a single fuck about upsetting them or spoiling their quiet enjoyment of their garden.

Initially I thought you were asking for advice, but with every subsequent post it is becoming clearer and clearer that you just want people to rubber stamp your decision and tell you you aren’t doing anything wrong.

I have even given you a solution to your problem of not wanting the trampoline by the decking when you are entertaining outdoors - to no avail.

I don't care what age they are or where the trampoline is (though really it should impact you more than neighbours) but you must must must supervise.

I'd hose your noisy children too op.

You sound utterly awful as a neighbour.

Hats off, OP, you are playing a blinder.

Sorry OP, but I don't for a minute believe your for real.

No one is so unashamedly self-absorbed.

Trust me, I don't want to get on the wrong side of the neighbors.

And yet you have put the trampoline on the wrong side of your garden. I don't see how you can claim to give a shit about your neighbours.

They're elderly as well so I think there will be only three months of the year, tops, that they will spend in the garden anyway.

How old is elderly and is there a sliding scale of age and garden use that I haven't heard of?

My mum’s neighbours kids have trampoline over looking a corner of her garden. They constantly shout, scream at each other and watch us over the fence as they bounce and shout. God knows why. It’s awful.
Your dh is right

The people whose garden backs on to ours have put one at the end of the garden. It isn't kids playing that's the problem, it's the fact that kids can't resist having a nosy at what's going on in our house (our garden isn't long like theirs). Also our kids feel hard done by as DH is of the 'trampolines are the work if the devil's persuasion'. But, their garden, their choice. I might feel worse if they had kid aged children rather than kid aged grandchildren.

Can't the kids just not use the trampoline when you're entertaining?

YABVU. They’re your children, so you should suffer them.

If you don’t want the inconvenience of the trampoline, get rid. Don’t try to foist it on your elderly neighbours.

And yes, I’d be another of the accidentally losing control of my hose brigade. Repeatedly.

You sound very selfish. If it is dry I like to sit in my garden reading or crocheting and would be beyond pissed off at shrieking kids next door.

Just sink the trampoline into the ground.

No high falls, no tipping over.

Looks better in the garden.

Happy(er) neighbours.