Hanging out the front ? Why ?

[wolfinfoxesclothing]

So where I live there is a lot of parents with young children. All houses have back gardens, but they all seem to hang around out the front of there houses. We don't live on a cul-de-sac, it's a normal road with traffic and not that much pavement. So they are actually standing there with their toddlers and little children playing in the road. Why? I don't get it ? I know they are talking watching but it's not safe.

To piss you off.

Some people think its more sociable. Its a working class thing.

They're socialising.

I’ve heard that some people are afflicted with this terrible need to socialise. Poor things. Shut your curtains and don’t let them know you exist.

Its a working class thing.

Yes indeed. The middle classes don’t socialise at all. Their own wonderful personalities are enough to entertain themselves.

@ZibbidooZibbidooZibbidoo
No the middle class hold paranoid stilted gatherings they all secretly dread.

😂

With lots of tinkly fake laughter then behind-your-back tits and eye rolls?

Blimey. TUTS.

Behind your back tits??

XPost!

I have behind my back tits if I lie the wrong way

I don't get it either but then I don't get the need to socialise that way. If I was wanted to talk to them that bad, I would invite them into the back garden. I don't tend to talk to my neighbours much though. And I am working-class born and bred.

it's a lower class thing

🤣🤣

Snort!

So what do you think now OP?

Maybe you should take some tinnies over and get to know them?

*VogueVVague

@ZibbidooZibbidooZibbidoo
No the middle class hold paranoid stilted gatherings they all secretly dread.*

That's completely true. We dread the annual BBQ, Xmas drinks, birthday parties, have you seen my new kitchen party.

If they have children out playing then it makes sense to watch them. My friend lives on one of these streets and the mothers take it in turn to go out and watch the kids. What irresponsible people they must be. Occasionally they dare to have a conversation. The nerve of it.

Damn you responsible parents who are clearly lower class but give into your primal wants to have conversations with other people.

Get into your back garden and stay there.

Oh Lord. Just when I thought I'd cracked this whole clasee thing and decided I was middle class in normal life , lower middle class in MN life, and now I find that I'm working class after all. All that socialising and talking to neighbours in a friendly way. Who knew ?

People really get primal instincts to have conversations with randoms?

I must be more Southern than I thought

@BackforGood
You could still be middle class, it depends whether you chat to them over the hedge whilst pruning your roses or whether you meet for fag breaks out front

@backforgood and i'm suddenly elevated from my deeply entrenched working class roots, by virtue of my antisocial personality. awesome!

Is the sun out the front rather than the back?

Probably out there because their kids are playing with neighbours kids or kids from round the estate.

my back garden doesn't have a tree. My front garden does and apparently its more fun to climb the tree than bounce on the expensive trampoline