Children on scooters- AIBU

[TantrumsAndBalloons]

I’m really not sure if I’m just fed up of WFH and now everything is irritating me but since last Monday, there have been a group of 5 children scootering past my window for up to 3hours a day, literally just up and down continuously from 9am.

They are scootering up and down the street shouting to each other and it’s driving me (and BigDog) slowly mad

Am I just being unreasonable to expect relative quiet during the day? I really don’t expect silence but this is incredibly annoying especially as my office is right in the window so it’s all I can hear

And no, I cannot move my office, there is nowhere else for me to go

It absolutely should have been made law to ban children from playing outside during working hours as soon as working from home became the norm. Disgraceful behaviour.

I have no issue with the noise the kids here make playing while I'm trying to work (and I get a lot of it because the only space I have to work is the conservatory with the doors open a lot of the time).

The ones who cause me problems:
Fuckwit boi next door who blares his shitty Elvis music in the garden from noon to 10pm every day. He also babysits a parrot on occasion and brings the bird in its cage out into the garden to squark along with Elvis

The dog out the back who is chucked out at about hourly intervals for half an hour wee-wee time and just does that annoying half howl-half-bark thing continuously if it detects any movement in any neighbouring garden. When the neighbour gets drunk she starts screaming at anyone who has made her precious dog Bruce start barking.

Endless powertools - there cannot be that much DIY needs doing in one street and I don't think it's the 8 year olds next door using the impact driver and chop saw

Spraypaint fumes - I don't know what one guy is doing but he seems to be trying to spraypaint the world and we get constantly stench of it wafting over

I'll take the kids playing dinosaurs and the boinging of trampolines over that any day.

The weather will turn soon. The wet and cold will drive them inside and then they will spend the next five months inside watching TV in their battery cages houses.

It absolutely should have been made law to ban children from playing outside during working hours as soon as working from home became the norm. Disgraceful behaviour.

And inside too. After all, their parents are trying to work there.

In fact, as soon as lockdown started, the government ought to have offered parents the option of having their children cryogenically frozen for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis. It would have saved us all a lot of stress.

@TantrumsAndBalloons I love it when posters say stuff like "it's good that children are getting their exercise!" If they're not your children, I'm pretty sure you couldn't care less whether they get exercise or not.
I'm sure you must live on the same street as me...there are always a group of about 5 children scooting up and down, screaming and shrieking to each other. It's enough to drive you mad. The noise of those wheels grinding over the flagstones- ARGGGH. Weekends are a freaking nightmare - all day, from 8am to 8pm, all we hear are those children. It's awful and inconsiderate of the parents imo.
You won't get much sympathy on here I'm afraid OP - I once put a post on regarding the same children playing outside with whistles. I was basically told that I should expect noise off children and to stop being so miserable.

Not unreasonable to find it annoying but at least it's during the day. There is a yard opposite us and the older teenagers or maybe older ride their scooters and motorcycles round there for hours on the nights.
Drives me insane so I do understand where you are coming from.

If they're not your children, I'm pretty sure you couldn't care less whether they get exercise or not.

An understandable but ultimately short-sighted view in a world where we have what the Americans describe as 'socialized medicine'. Childhood obesity costs us all.

I can see why you would find it annoying, but it's just one of those things you have to suck up unless you go and live in the middle of nowhere! Agree with pp it's good they are out and about and not in front of screens.

It sound s Like one of those things that is annoying af. But you have to tolerate it.

How old are the kids? Surely bigger ones are now at school...

@Minimumstandard Not denying that in the grand scheme of things it is good that children are getting exercise. Obesity is one of the many drains on the NHS.
But I meant simply if you don't have children you wouldn't sit and spend your time wondering if other people's kids are getting exercise. If that makes sense!

@JalapenoDave. Yes, it makes total sense and I'm splitting hairs .

But if the kids are not at school with organised sport and playgrounds, then they're going to be causing havoc around their homes. What are we meant to do with them? Completely get that nobody really cares on an individual level about other people's kids, but the truth is that children exist, they're annoying and noisy and we've sort of got to live with them since it's us (office workers) who have moved in on their patch (home) and they currently have very few other places to go.

@Minimumstandard I get that, what you're saying makes sense! I guess it is just annoying for us (especially ones who don't have children) to deal with other people's kids' noise when we are trying to work. I suppose it seems more emphasised because WFH is new for a lot of us!
(Thanks for having different views by the way and being polite about it!)

But why aren’t they at school

@JalapenoDave. I don't much like my own child atm, so I can understand how you and the OP feel.