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?

I think I may have a suspicion why the OP doesn't want her kids spraying with water.....

Reverse.

Let's annoy the neighbours for the sake of our eyes lol

Shouldn't you keep the trampoline in sight when they're on it? Or are you only outside when they are using it?

Really, petbear, I think you need to take a breath here. Of course distance away from noise makes a difference as to how loud it is. What planet are you on? This very reason is, of course, why the OP put the trampoline where she did, away from her house. Why do you think she did it? So the neighbours would have free entertainment? I hardly think so.

Your initial post said you found the trampoline ugly. Now your complaint is the screeching?
My kids have a trampoline. It's by the neighbour's fence. Not on it for very long and (whilst there may be laughing and talking) there's no screeching.
HTH

DH is NBU.You are OP. Massively.

If you don't want to look at it, why should your neighbours have to see bopping kids? Be considerate.

^This

If your children are preteen in the garden screeching then they should be told to stop

Your trampoline should be in your eyeline, not that of anyone else. You come across as selfish and inconsiderate.

Your DH is right, the trampoline should be closest to your house and therefore you should be most impacted by the noise.

My neighbours have put theirs near the fence shared with my garden and the shrieking, screaming and bouncing noise is often so bad I can’t enjoy my garden in the summer. It terrifies my nervous rescue cats to the point they won’t go outside. The privacy of my garden has been ruined and it’s generally a nightmare.

Please don’t do the same to your neighbours OP, have a bit of consideration.

YABVU. The trampoline should outside your living room not round the corner overlooking the neighbours Garden. If you were our neighbours DH and I would be very annoyed if you did this.

I've always wondered what a scenario would look like from the CF's POV.

Now I know.

I truly hope this is a reverse, or a troll, but unfortunately, there are so many CF these days that it's quite likely to be real.

Fucking hell. The selfishness of some people is shocking.

@mslevine86
That looks horrific. You poor thing.

Awful isn't it, our garden is South facing and gorgeously warm in the summer and it was really ruined with constant screeching and kids popping up in my eyeline when I just wanted to sit peacefully with a book and a g and t...I wouldn't have minded so much if they took it down when not in use, surely if it was a shed that tall it would need planning permission?? Impatiently awaiting my pines to grow!!!

Were I your neighbour having to tolerate your shrieking prodigy I would be setting up an incinerator containing very green wood, and a large fan, as near to your trampoline as I could get it. I too can spoil pleasure. To be honest you sound like the most inconsiderate, entitled, poor parent I've ever digitally encountered and on these pages that takes some doing.

I would be putting a washing line the full length of the fence and hanging out sheets on it. They would stay there morning noon and night, getting grungier by the day, until you moved your fucking trampoline, OP. Oh, I’d also hang up the most irritating wind chimes too. The leaf blower would be out, the minute you had visitors.

As for the childhood is so short crap. Being elderly doesn’t last for very fucking long either you know! Let your poor neighbours have what time they have, in peace. Anyone that would take advantage of the fact that their neighbors are elderly would be selfish, bullying cunts, as far as I’m concerned.

Put it by your decking. Unless you have acres of garden you will be able to hear kids shrieking on a trampoline all over. If they're getting too loud tell them to pipe down!
It's much safer to have it in your eyeline so you can check the kids aren't dicking around and doing anything likely to end up in hanging/neck breaking. And having it next to your neighbours fence so your kids would be looking into their garden would be a serious dick move. Yabu.

How could you ever think you were being reasonable op?

How could you ever think you were being reasonable op?

I call joke thread. I bet the OP's going to talk about "a child's joy" next.

Youre right. Of course 😐.
You shouldnt have to see your own children playing on the trampoline. Much better to stick it out of your sight. Put it where your neighbours can see them instead.

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My CF neighbours think like you OP and put the trampoline at the bottom of their garden right outside our bedroom window. Kids bounce up and down, scream and stare in.

They have 50 ft of garden to the left of this shot without other houses so ample place to put it somewhere else while still being able to use their patio etc.

Blimey.

Some people really don't give a fuck about their neighbours do they?

If polite requests to these CFs don't work, I really would be moving on to hoses, bonfires, high washing lines, leylandii...