About to go shout at some kids in my dressing gown…AIBU

[TakingTheLowRoad]

Stupid bloody children and ignorant parents.

I live in a small development that has a series of cul-de-sacs. Most recently this charming group of boys have been playing football at the top of our cul-de-sac for football, using the gardens OF OTHER PEOPLE’S houses as their goals. None of the children live on our road. The neighbours with small children stopped them playing as they were regularly there after 10pm, running around the gardens and the road.
and shouting. Now they’ve moved to the area one house over from me with a portable basketball net. The area is surrounded by houses so the noise is bouncing off the walls so badly that it sounds like they’re playing in my garden. It’s 2230 on a bloody school night.

If you're in your dressing gown you have to shake your fist as well. It's the law.

(Yanbu by the way)

Were they receptive to your feedback?!

What are the kids doing in your dressing gown?

Isn’t it a bit big for them?

@GreenWillow

What are the kids doing in your dressing gown?

Isn’t it a bit big for them?

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Why don't they play in their own street?

Or their own dressing gown.

@TakingTheLowRoad - I don’t blame you for finding this intensely irritating. Going out in your dressing gown might just lead to them laughing at you - could you pull on some clothes?

Tbh in the time it took the OP to type her opening post, she could've pulled some clothes on if she'd wanted to.

I put on my gym gear and was getting in my car to drive around and tell them to go home when I heard our neighbour (whose house faces this area) and gave them a right telling off. They haven’t been back since.
I wrote the post to give them a chance to STFU but they didn’t. DH thought I was widely overreacting but he’s had no job since Covid so the fact that they were keeping me awake on a school night (I’m a teacher) made no difference to him!

You were getting in your car? How far are these neighbouring houses?