Neighbours kids been given WHISTLES. Fucking WHISTLES!!!

[Midsommar]

Like most people I am working from home. I live in terrace housing. The kids down the round are loud at the best of times (as most kids are and that isn't my AIBU).

But now all I can hear is whistling. Nosied out the window and both children have been given whistles. It has been non-stop since half 8 and given their track record this will no doubt go on till about 11/11.30 tonight. I have my TV turned up loud and I can still hear the whistling. I want to stab my eardrums.

AIBU or would this be pissing anyone else off right now?

I get so annoyed when people put them in party bags. They get one blast and then they’re binned.

OP can you complain? It’s so antisocial

your supposed to shout blow them louder I CANT HEAR YOU and continue until the parents come out and confiscate them

Make sure you say "show your parents just how loud you can blow them go on inside and show them!"

My neighbours only bought whistles once......

Wow - you are all.full of the joys of summer today. Kids playing outside, adults chatting, parents helping kids to ride bikes...it's all shocking behaviour!!! It's been wet here for days.....i would love to get the kids outside playing. Maybe the cycling parents work from home and were trying to fit in some time with the kids before work and get them out for fresh air. Whistles can be annoying but it's one day and only a few hours in. Let the kids have fun.

Whistles would be an excellent way to spread germs over a wider area...

People don't have the brains they were born with sometimes. In my street, every child now has a skateboard, wouldn't mind if they were riding them but no, they all spend all day practicing flipping them - jeez, I can barely hear the constant bouncing of balls at the basketball net.

I've been really good and not complained as I do appreaciate that the kids need to be out playing. Can't say it's not a relief when it's raining.

Whistle though - that is some form of torture.

@Mumdiva99

Wow - you are all.full of the joys of summer today. Kids playing outside, adults chatting, parents helping kids to ride bikes...it's all shocking behaviour!!! It's been wet here for days.....i would love to get the kids outside playing. Maybe the cycling parents work from home and were trying to fit in some time with the kids before work and get them out for fresh air. Whistles can be annoying but it's one day and only a few hours in. Let the kids have fun.

doesn't sound like you rtft or are you one of the offenders ?

There are many joys of summer that aren't obnoxiously loud. Don't expect smiles when one person's joy intrudes upon another's peace.

If only it were just playing and chatting @Mumdiva99, it would be tolerable, but it's shrieking and cackling and shouting at kids.

It really sounds like they're in the same room, not outside, across the road and 2 houses down!

And why would anyone sit out in the street when they have a perfectly nice back garden, lovely and sunny all morning and with glorious downland views? I've lived here since 1993 and I've never seen anyone do their socialising in the street until this woman moved in.

There was a thread on MN yesterday about ululating - why not give it a try when the whistles start to blow?

God , this makes me recall the time when the local School fete (opposite our house) gave out vuvuzela out as prizes . The noise for weeks was horrendous. I feel your pain.

ex once bought ds a vuvuzela...we live in a flat...

it mysteriously disappeared.

he also suggested ds learn the drums... (ok so there are electronic versions but ffs)

Wait until they have been given a drum...

OP ever considered learning bagpipes? Under their window? And everyone knows the humidity for bagpipes is much better around 9pm when the parents are settling down with a G&T to watch the telly....

@Mumdiva99 as a grandmother who hasn't seen her grandchildren for nearly a year, I enjoy hearing children playing, and watching the two little boys from up the road riding their bikes up and down outside my house, calling out to each other, and generally having a good time. Those normal child noises are lovely to hear. Similarly I love hearing the children in the house behind ours, as they play , sometimes fight, bounce on their trampoline, etc.. Not so much when their Dad fills their big paddling pool, when they feel the need to shriek at the top of their voices. And I definitely wouldn't like whistles. Teaching your children to be considerate is not difficult. And teaching your kids to ride bikes in the street early in the morning is very inconsiderate.

Nooo! I bought my 3yo a bug collecting kit which, for some unfathomable reason, contained a whistle. Amazingly it got lost* within about 10 minutes.
*put in the bin when ds wasn't looking.

When my DS was 5 all he wanted from Santa was a whistle- a referees whistle. Literally the only thing on his Christmas list! Got him one with the rule that we won’t get it out at a big park or open field. (After he had a few blows on xmas morning) Would never let him have it in the garden- as much for my sanity as everyone else’s!

@Notmyfirstusername

My neighbours decided to teach their 3 & 5 year olds to bike ride outside of my window starting at 7:15 this morning, which involved much crying and cheering. They live 10 houses up and our house is just off a blind corner that delivery drivers tend to take at speed.They are complaining loudly every time a car user goes past for spoiling their fun. You have my sympathy.

God some people are such fuckwits.

We live on a hill. When it snows people take their kids sledding on the road where cars are parked and it polishes up the snow so cars can’t get up.

I had the joy of this last Summer. I live in a small village, there was a Summer fete and there were whistles for sale. Lots of parents bought them for their kids.
The next 2 weeks every child was in its garden at different times of the day blowing the bloody things. It drove me insane!!
Thankfully this year, they seem to have been widely forgotten.

I feel for you. I would never have bought then for my kids!

Some neightbours are so inconsiderate.
Mine have their very loud granddaughter over all the time, she cannot speak at normal volumes and shouts all the time. They have given her a microphone which she uses in the back garden!

Whistles can be annoying but it's one day and only a few hours in. Let the kids have fun.

You do realise that whistles don't spontaneously combust after one day so it's unlikely to only be just one day?

When they're safely tucked up in bed test your hi-fi with something like the 1812, loudly.

We live on a hill. When it snows people take their kids sledding on the road where cars are parked and it polishes up the snow so cars can’t get up

We had this one year until we got a bag of road grit/salt, they came to a spectacular halt on the exposed tarmac, some parents actually complained!

The level of low people go to never ceases to amaze me. And over lockdown, when the neighbours a couple of doors down decided to just leave their kids outside to go feral, it just opened my eyes to the fact that most people really are clueless and lack emotional intelligence. They truly don't give two shits about annoying others. It's the weirdest thing, isn't it? I think parents actually believe they're fostering musical ability. Like, if I have a toy box full of whistles, my child's inner Mozart will emerge. Fuck that. Get a Nintendo Switch and give us all some peace and quiet.

Oh, no, not the 1812 - what you want is freeform jazz. Loud, freeform jazz.

Wait until they have been given a drum

My late parents couldn't bear one of Pa's SILs. They always chose really noisy Christmas/birthday presents for her children, and a tin drum was one of the first, but they included a toy trumpet, a mouth organ and a plastic machine gun that made a horribly realistic noise. They did this in the full knowledge that the SIL liked a drink but got appalling hangovers.

At least this was the early 60's, when the choice of noisy toys was much narrower. They'd have a bloody field day nowadays.