AIBU to not let a random child walk on my garden wall?

[CockysGirl]

Just got in from work and was parking on my drive and a grandparent with a small child (2-3 years old) is lifting them up so that they can walk along my garden wall. They see me standing watching and say "DGC wants to walk on your wall, you don't mind do you?" So I replied, "I'd rather they didn't, it is a tall wall with lots of rose bushes next to it so they may get hurt and anyway, it is my private property" So the grandparent glared at me and huffed loudly and said "the nasty lady won't let you walk on her wall" and proceeded to make a big fuss about lifting DGC off the wall again! AIBU to not want kids walking on my garden wall?

Walking on walls is one of life's wee pleasures at that age. What's your objection?

No you're not

What harm is a 2-3 year old walking on your wall going to do?!

Yes, and petty.

YANBU in the slightest.

I have drystone walls and people still allow their children to try and walk on them 🙄

It's such a small thing. What has happened to people? How can this make you do anything but smile? It's a 2-3 year old that would be on your wall for the tiniest amount of time.

Yanbu.

Well I wouldn’t let my children walk on other people’s wall just of courtesy. But I really wouldn’t mind a child walking on my wall - I don’t even have a wall but if I did 🤣

I’m sure the grandparent would of held her hand and made sure she didn’t fall.

@HirplesWithHaggis I'm not a complete killjoy but the wall is about 4ft tall with rose bushes on my side of it, if the child fell they could be seriously injured!

What harm would it have done you to let her walk on the wall though? Kids love walking on them. I would have smiled and told them to go ahead. You sound a bit of a misery guts OP.

And how would that grandparent react if your wall collapsed with their grandchild walking on it? They'd blame you... And they probably wouldn't pay for any damage that could happen either!
You are most definitely not being unreasonable.

Wow. YANBU, other people’s homes are not climbing frames FFS. You have to be a special kind of dim and rude to have behaved like the woman with the grandchild in the OP.

How mean!

YANBU but that's because I forever have parents saying nothing as their children pick my flowers and throw them on the floor. Once I looked out and a toddler was stood in the middle of my garden, 2 adults just nearby having a chat. I did open my window and ask them to remove their child from my garden. So I get that it's irritating not to have your property respected.

Bit mean, I bet you walked on walls when you was younger, yabu poor kid wasn't doing any harm

YANBU, it's a pet hate of mine, probably because the top stones of my wall coming loose due to years of kids walking on it. Pisses me right off.

Cheeky buggers to do it in the first place. Can't believe how rude some people have been to you

You are being a bit pathetic.

@Qwerty543 I agree - several times i have caught people picking my roses and they are so brazen about it.

Wouldn't bother me.

I'm with @Naa29 on this, wouldn't let my child do it on private land but wouldn't be upset if someone did ot to mine
I think you were a bit of a kill joy, you could have just pointed out the roses and left it at that but the grandparents reaction was rude and pathetic and far worse than yours!

Yanbu. I have a very intimate scar from walking on a walland slipping. A man helped me home as I was on my own at a shop alone.. I was about 7.