A gang of teenagers sitting on my wall - AIBU

[Thesearepearls]

A lovely Sunday afternoon. I live opposite a reservoir and sometimes (quite often) the reservoir carpark gets full so they all park outside my house.

This isn't a problem. I don't mind - the reservoir is lovely and everyone should be able to enjoy walking around it.

It's just today there was a gang of teenagers. Sitting on my wall - which I am peculiarly fond of given that I built the thing with the builders - lumping great big pieces of stone. It's not like they were doing any harm to the wall. It's just that I felt my space was invaded.

They were loud obnoxious sweary and drinky. After an hour of this I decided they'd taken up residence. So i went to ask them to go away. I told them they were loud obnoxious sweary and drinky and to bugger off because I didn't like hearing their voices.

I have turned into a cross between Nigel Farage and Jeremy Clarkson haven't I? But seriously I really didn't like hearing their shouting. To be fair to them, they went more or less straight away. They left a couple of empty cans which I tidied away. They really were not that bad. I could have put up with it. Except I really didn't want to.

The only thing I'd be worried about is pissing them off. Not that that should be your concern- they were on your wall- but sadly it's something worth taking into consideration. If you said to them what you posted here, that's quite antagonistic and you should tone it down a bit. But I'm glad they moved. There were 3 boys sitting on the outside wall of our flat but when I opened the window one of them called up and asked if it was OK to sit there, which I thought was nice. I didn't mind. But if they're being drunk and stupid it would be very annoying. I hate the weed, that's something I have to smell a lot around here

Yes I was worried about antagonising them. Then when I told them off and they reacted in the way that they did I felt a bit guilty. It wouldn;t have killed me to put up with them

tired that was decent of you to let them know that - like it !

These

No, you are entitled to tell them. Teens need boundaries. As I said, I have teen boys and I'd want other members of the community to assert their boundaries.