...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?

A couple kids did this at our door once but never again. A sight of my huge DF yelling at them sent them off. This was back in the day if an adult told you off and your DPs found out you would have another telling off for inconveniencing the other adult.

Kids do this still but who let's their kid do it in a hotel?

I always feel so sad for kids like this. What chance to they have with such poor parenting

Set your alarm for 10pm when the kids are asleep and then play your own game of knock down ginger. And then again at 4am.

Knock a door run,
Yes, kids have been doing that years, never makes it right though.
The mum was being an arse.
Yes, kids do do stuff like that (I have two myself!) but if they'd have done that and somebody came to tell me I'd have been mortified and apologised (and told them off for annoying others!)

18:42AnneFuckingKirrin

Called ding dong dash here

This sounds like what you do when you run away after a one night stand.

😁

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Chappy...

Knock a door run.
Or another favourite of ours was cotton knocking - get a reel of cotton and tie it round a door knocker then walk away and pull the cotton so it knocked the door from a distance!

@BlatantlyNameChanged

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

Knocky Nine Doors, surely?

I'm in northeast England and Knocky Nine Door here too 😂

Did anyone here play the Scottish game "Light a Shite"?

We called it ‘Bobba knocking’ in the NW and by far THE best house to do this on was angry neighbour who used to burst out of his front door long after we’d scarpered!

Of course, if you got caught you took the punishment, and rightly so!

The mum who came knocking was being a dick!

You did nothing wrong. If it happens in the future, complaint to the hotel

I’ve also learned new things today. Never hear of any of these sayings before

@SisterMonicaJoansHabit no Swansea.

It’s Cherry Knocking.
Their crime was in still standing there when the door was opened.

Children have done this almost since time began. They’ve been shouted at for so doing almost since time began.

Parents should, of course, have discouraged their children. I suspect fewer children play now because they are not out and about unsupervised as much. It’s fairly innocuous as pranks go. Infuriating but innocuous.

Did the Mother know she had knocked on your window and woken you up?

I cannot believe a parent would defend that type of behaviour. Madness.

The mum was a knob. The whole point of the game is that you are going to get told off if you are seen so you run away! If that had happened to me as a child I’d have kept quiet about it as I’m sure my mum would have given me more of a telling off for having done it in the first place.

We used to play a slight variation that also involved someone knocking and someone running away and hiding called, 'Shit! Jehovah's'!

It's knock and run, unless you are over 18 on on your way home from the pub, then it's knock and stagger.

[quote TroysMammy]@SisterMonicaJoansHabit no Swansea.[/quote]
The very first day I moved I to said village, it started.

Needless to say, with everything else the local kids did, and their ignorant parents wouldn't do, I moved to England. The farthest side away. I'll return when I'm older and avoid the whole Rhondda. Ponty was ace, Cynon and Taf were ace, Trehafod was an experience.

Knock a door run