...to tell a child to stop playing knock down ginger

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Just that really.

Staying in a roadside hotel on the way on holiday, up early and long drive so trying to have a short lie down and knocking on the window. I go to have a look and a small child is there. I said don't do that I was trying to sleep. She blames her sister and then ran off. Just to clarify, I did not shout, I was not angry but I was stern.

Next thing I know I've got the mum knocking on my door shouting at me telling me there just be something wrong with me because they're just kids and I had to right to tell her off. Did I never do that as a kid etc etc. Apparently child was in tears.

Was I just being grumpy and tired or should I really not have said anything?

Whatever it’s called she has pretty much given you an open invitation to knock on her door and run like buggery.
You should do it op.

@MrsMillhouse

Yabu for calling it knock down ginger. It’s called chap door run away

You’re both BU, it’s called chappies 😆

The mother was being an arse. I would have apologised and told my dc off.

My ds says its called ding dong ditch or knock a door run.
My dad says knock down ginger.

YANBU. She should have been watching her kids and I would have told her that.

It's definitely knock door run. It can be part of chickenelly but that is more of a dare thing- you are chicken if you don't do x,y, z. Regional variations may apply......however, in a hotel it is unacceptable and I would have told the 'mother' that.

In a hotel!!

Ring reception.

You are not staying in a hotel to be abused by patrons because they are not supervising their children.🙄

It's Cherry Knocking!

@TroysMammy

It's called Bobby knocking where I'm from. My sister got hell off our DM when she found out she'd done it to a disabled lady in the village.

Wasn't Trehafod was it?

Oops, meant regional -been at the wine as the weather is lovely here.

I'd open the door and ask why the fuck her small child is knocking on strangers doors? Anyone could be staying there, you could have been a paedo.

It's called Knock Door, Run you absolute weirdos

I'll bet the child just told her mother she was playing and you told her to be quiet, not what the exact game was (by any name), so it sounded like you were grumpy about normal children-playing noises in the middle of the day. Of course, she's daft to launch right in to shouting at you about it.

@DeflatedGinDrinker

It's called nick knock nanny though.

Yep. This is what we called it in Oxford.

You were right to damn well tell them. Maybe if other people do tell her little darlings off every now and then they might learn a thing or 2 about respect. A knock like that on the bloody window could terrify some people especially if they're elderly infirm reclusive or suffer from severe anxiety its intimidating.

We had a boy over the road who played KNOCK DOWN GINGER on us.
I told him to stop because it was annoying and I was worried he was going to get run over flying across the street / hiding behind cars etc.
His Mum gave him such a bollocking that I felt sorry for him.

No one else call it Ring, Bang, Schoosh?

@AnneFuckingKirrin

We had a boy over the road who played KNOCK DOWN GINGER on us. I told him to stop because it was annoying and I was worried he was going to get run over flying across the street / hiding behind cars etc. His Mum gave him such a bollocking that I felt sorry for him.

Same here! Mum marched him over to apologise. Felt sorry for him! It really wasn't a big deal. I asked him to stop and he did. If he'd kept on I'd have been peeved. I'd have done what she did if it was my boys though.

Knock down ginger here too!

Knock down ginger here to, South West 👍🏼 Annoying but just one of those things children do !

Too! Bloody autocorrect 😡

I think we called it knock door run - highly imaginative up the north of Scotland. I remember my mum bollocking us for doing it as the poor old lady down the road had been up and down like a yo-yo all afternoon and was frightened of falling so she called my mother and asked us to stop. However it wasn’t us as we were in my back garden all afternoon. But her word was final. I would have no problem with someone asking my child not to do something that was annoying or being firm or cross if they were being naughty or trying to do something dangerous. Some people are so precious about their kids, perhaps they should watch them if they don’t want them told off by other people it does them no harm

Knock a door run surely?

It was Knock Down Ginger in Croydon, where I grew up.

And it's bloody annoying and completely unacceptable in a hotel.

Knocker door run is what we called it
Never did it tho as my mother would have had my arse

I would make my dc apologise too.
Expecting people just to sit there while children knock on their door and run away is bonkers.