To be watching my neighbour doesn't hit my car!

[Moofreemum1]

Argh!
So there is a communal parking area which holds about 15-20 cars. In front of that is a green and then houses. My house is behind it on the other side of the road. (Can draw a diagram if it's easier?? As I know people love one) anyway this neighbour lives a bit up and has his own drive so cars are not parked there. Him and his son are playing football on this green right beside the cars! And the mad thing is they have a garden! While this is happening his 2 young daughter's are running all over the place literally beside the cars!! Seriously why is he doing this I'm raging! I don't like the man personally his attitude comes across as I can do what I want. So Aibu to be angry!?

Honestly find something else to occupy your time and stop curtain twitching!

Or simply ask them not to play near your car, you can't tell him how to parent the DDs. To me you seem
overly anxious and nervous, so your thoughts on danger would differ to mine.

Moofreemum1 - his ds was probably too young to be playing football with on the green when he didn't play football on the green... I think you are taking your dislike of the man a bit far here and making yourself sound like a rather unpleasant curtain twitcher. This is not something that would bother me unless and until any harm was actually caused.

What has this man done to make you dislike him so much?

Nothing has happened. Curtain twitcher...

I have to say that I am with you OP. If it says that no ball games are allowed on the green then they shouldn’t be playing with a ball on it.

If there wasn’t this rule then I wouldn’t side with you. The problem is if you go to tell them to stop playing as it isn’t allowed, they will probably ignore you and it makes you look a bit of a killjoy. It would annoy me though.

Stop the press child plays out with a ball, in 2019 shocker! Do they not know they should be inside playing virtual football?

^This lmfao

You have way too much time on your hands. How can it be a bad thing that kids are out playing, outside, instead of stuck in on computers.

I think it's good for kids to be playing out I'm sure the younger two will have being taught road safety and they have a parent there watching anyway.
They haven't hit any cars yet and I'm sure if dad is supervising they will be careful not too.

I bet if any child was smacking a ball close to your car you would not be happy! Pretending that it wouldn't bother you, ok then. And curtain twitcher haha! I was in my back garden actually and heard them playing football so I went looked up the window for all of 30 secs and saw who it was!

Moofreemum1 - I think if the children were unaccompanied by their father I would be a bit concerned for my car. With the father there, though, I would expect him to be a competent adult capable of keeping proceedings under control - unless I had strong prior evidence to the contrary. It's not as if he's a stranger to the street planning to run away the minute he causes trouble, safe in the knowledge nobody knows where he lives! And going to the safety of your window for all of 30 seconds to see what's going on is exactly what curtain twitching is! That's why it's called curtain twitching and not passive aggressive, all day, blatant staring at people in broad daylight.

@Moofreemum1 if you've only watched for 30 seconds then your title is very misleading indeed! You say all the not whacking the ball, the DDs running in car park in 30 seconds and that's what you judged all this on? You'd been observing this neighbour previously and noted that he'd not played football when his car was parked there?

Curtain twitcher is just a generic name for bloody nosy neighbour, it doesn't really matter if you're in your back garden without actual curtains 🙄!

Despite what you say I wouldn't be stressing about a ball hitting my car, it would need sone force to break the windscreen!

I do love a good AIBU, 95% say yes and then OP says no I'm not, I wasn't really watching them, I'm not BU!! 🙄

*saw it all the boy whacking

Is the ball reinforced with lead?

Is the ball reinforced with lead?

If you're as old as me, you remember they were made of leather!

Current balls are designed to ensure no head injuries from heading.... I think the car and wind screen may survive.

You’re being loon.

Why don’t you just go out and tell him ball games aren’t allowed rather than staring from the window like a weirdo?

I'm totally with you on this OP. I just picked up a brand new car last week and I am so precious about it that the idea of it being hit and scratched would have me in the car and off for a drive!

@Moofreemum1
Actually this did use to happen, I used to live in a cul de sac and had three little boys who used to play football and my car did get hit a number of times, ( never caused any damage) they were quickly told off if this happened and they were out there all day for years having fun and playing football and never caused damage to any cars

Our old ndn's used to let their sons play cricket on the street and they smashed my car's wing mirror. They agreed to pay then went back to doing exactly the same in the same place. It also took me weeks to get the money because their lovely dad said I had to wait until his insurance company paid him first.

Don't listen to anyone who says you are uptight, you just don't want the problem of being without a car while it is fixed or an argument with someone who seems a difficult individual.

Just tell him there are no ball games and people are worried about damage to their vehicles. Take a pic of yours as well now without damage as he will probably say it was there already.