Cutting grass at 8:30 on Sunday morning?

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As a one off, because we have a bouncy castle coming, we are cutting the grass at 8:30 on a Sunday morning. Next door have just shouted out of their window. 🙈
AIBU? It’s not something we have ever done before or plan to repeat. I kind of think one off things you suck it up a bit? Same as the odd occasion their dog is barking outside my bedroom window at 11pm.

@nicenicenice

If anyone yelled out of a window at me I would get up and do it every single Sunday!

This!!!!

Frankly, seeing as everyone went happily along with Hunt's assertion when he was Health Minister that Britain is now a 24/7 economy, so NHS workers can expect to work any of those hours, all weekend, way into the wee hours... (remember the photos HCPs took of empty tube trains at 7am on a Sunday morning, jeering at the reality that actually only HCPs and NMW workers are likely to work those hours?) ...

Well, given that no one cared about the sanctity of Sunday for those workers, I'd say a lawn mower at 8.30am is perfectly acceptable. I mean, that might be the only time some workers have to do household upkeep tasks.

It reminds me of my now late mother's horror of Sunday opening in shops, way back, and occasionally raised on MN today; her complete lack of understanding that for some people, late night or Sunday shopping might be their only option.

If we want the convenience of other people working unsocial hours, like supermarket delivery drivers and couriers, to ease our lifestyles, we have to accept that they might need to do household tasks at times that aren't convenient for the 9-5 massif.

The bouncy castle is a red herring, here.

I think 8:30 is unreasonable on a Sunday, yes.

I would not have shouted at you because I am not brave but I would have been annoyed.

Where are you? Is it a particularly religious region of the UK?

Context is everything. In the Outer Hebrides, hanging washing out on a Sunday is a no, no! The residents largely strictly observe the Sabbath and to do that would be offensive. Mowing the lawn at all would not be acceptable, let alone at 8.30 am.

Saturday and Sunday are the days most people are off work and have a lie in, I am getting right fed up as someone is out every weekend with power tools waking us up.

just trying to make a point that we all get up at different hours.

well, quite, @WestendVBroadway - and probably i wouldn't. As it happens i don't make a noise and i don't wake my neighbours.

Culturally in the UK (despite pp and their "weekend privilege" comment) it isn't acceptable to wake people up by cutting your grass at 8:30am on a Sunday.
Lucky me i live in Germany and as PP said - it's not allowed here. And I'm very happy about that.

What i don't get, from the OP, is why it's "well their dog barked late so i can do this" where both are unacceptable so why didn't they tell their neighbour about the dog instead of silently fuming?

@OnlyFoolsnMothers

Yeh I agree with you, 7.30 I may have a diff answer but 8.30 on the first non rainy morning in forever wouldn’t bother me.

agreed

I think its absolutely fine and many people round where I live are making a racket this early most days.

@iamtheoneandonlyyy

Mom-fri privilege Good grief 🤣🤣

Yes, having a job that is Mon-Fri, 9-5 is a privilege for many, these days.

More and more jobs are moving ever closer to 24/7 to maximise owner-profits and public convenience.

We, as a society are okay with this; it suits government to have workers who pass like ships in the night thus cannot 'organise'; it suits some working families so they can tag-team childcare (then forlornly wonder where their relationship went as they never spend time together...)

But, we therefore have to accept that those who choose to, or have to work in the 24/7 economy might be doing household maintenance at 8.30am on a Sunday.

All these bouncy castle haters .... don’t you think it’s lovely to hear kids behaving normally again and having fun!

And I don’t have little kids any more but I certainly wouldn’t mind my neighbour doing this with her two little ones, they’ve had a shit time!

Your 'one off' is possibly also their 'one off' for the week ... lawn cutting versus a much needed lie in.

YABU

Frankly, seeing as everyone went happily along with Hunt's assertion when he was Health Minister that Britain is now a 24/7 economy, so NHS workers can expect to work any of those hours, all weekend, way into the wee hours... (remember the photos HCPs took of empty tube trains at 7am on a Sunday morning, jeering at the reality that actually only HCPs and NMW workers are likely to work those hours?) ...

disingenuous because there was a HUGE outcry about that

Culturally in the UK (despite pp and their "weekend privilege" comment) it isn't acceptable to wake people up by cutting your grass at 8:30am on a Sunday.

Posters do keep making things up.
Where is all this coming from?

Where I live, half my neighbours at least are up from 7am, dog walking, jogging, washing cars, cutting the grass, going walking or cycling. Dogs are barking, pigeons are cooing loudly from 5am, hens are clucking, tractors are going along the roads and people are leaving for work even on a Sunday.

*8.30 is not early.

Who are all these people not up at that time?*

Hahahahaha. Nice dig there, sanctimonious tunnel vision MN at its best.

How about normal people? I'm a night owl, my body clock likes sleep between 1am and 9am naturally. I work afternoons and evenings, so often sleep later in the morning .I can easily sleep until 11am on a Sunday and feel refreshed for the week ahead. Not everybody is a lark or on 9-5 hours with young kids.

Too early OP on a Sunday. I'd be annoyed too. I'd say around 10am is normal for lawn mowers to start here at the weekend. That's ok. Before 8.30 is selfish.

If you were on here posting at 08:31 that suggests you were cutting the grass earlier than 8.30! YABU.

I think people underestimate just how much difference a heads up can make to our perception of situations. If, the day before, you had mentioned it to them, then it would have indicated to them that it was likely to be a one off irritation, and that you're thoughtful enough to warn them. If they were potentially woken up out of the blue by the sound of your mower at 8.30 on a Sunday, then their immediate reaction is going to be more extreme, and fuelled by anticipation (however inaccurate in your case) of early morning disturbances to come, from neighbours who don't give a damn about how their self-centred behaviour might impact on others (my experience!)

@Bettyboopawoop

Saturday and Sunday are the days most people are off work and have a lie in, I am getting right fed up as someone is out every weekend with power tools waking us up.

They are also the days most people are off work so want to get household jobs done.

6.30 might be inconsiderate but I don’t see a problem with 8.30.

I work shifts in healthcare. I am still aware of the rhythm of most people's lives. When we had small DC & both worked shifts we would take in turns for a weekend lie in when our off-duty permitted.

Now I'm old I'm up anyway, but as an exhausted new mum, I'm not sure I'd have been responsible for the consequences against anyone who disturbed my lie in.

Anything before 10am is too early on a Sunday.

Yabu. And selfish.

😂 dying at the number of people seething at the idea of a lawnmover going at 8:30 on one Sunday morning.

If it's a one off it's fine. It would be rude to do it regularly but I think neighbours were being unreasonable if it's never happened before. Life is far too short.

We get up at 6.30am daily bar Sunday I'd probably shout out the window too.

Unreasonable....its a Sunday!

How rude and how entitled to play the "it's a one-off" card.
If everybody decided to have a one-off anything, no one would have a peaceful morning anymore.

Anything that noisy before 10am on a Sunday morning might be legal ,but it's inconsiderate.

YABU

and for all the posters whining about "privileged" people having weekends off...

considerate people are considerate any day of the week. I agree it's a shocking concept for some.