To be disappointed at poor response re street party

[Geminijust]

Smallish, quiet street, approx 45 houses, generally pretty friendly. Neighbour & I thought it might be nice to throw a party for the coronation. Council encouraging it by offering road closures & free insurance.

Sent out a note with a return slip asking people to say if they would interested, if they would be willing to help and inviting comments & suggestions. Gave them 2 weeks to respond. Deadline has passed and we have 17 responses, all positive, but that's less than half the street! AIBU to think it's really disappointing and actually rather rude :-(

Think we're going to send text to those that bothered to respond thanking them but, as we don't have a majority, informing them we will not be proceeding.

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I don’t understand given the Andrew issue and other scandals why anyone would want to mark the occasion, inconveniencing neighbours by closing a road.

I'm thinking a bunch of tampons in vodka laced sangria as an alternative to jelly shots.

British values done right.

As someone who organises an annual street party - that’s a pretty good response. We get maybe a third of the street coming out on the day.

Everyone else isn’t interested, but they let it happen and don’t object.

It can be discouraging for the organisers- but I still think it’s worth doing, and I’m sure it improves the community spirit and friendliness in the street for the whole rest of the year

I love this!!

Agree. Some people on here are just miserable c*nts and want everyone to be equally miserable

Obviously I will need this:
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Will call it Andrew's justice or use it for cake in a phallic shape and call it Andrew's just desert.

Who is bringing the peados in blankets? (I realise he's an exploiter due to age technicalities but exploiter of trafficked teen in blankets is a bit of a mouthful)

Presumably you’ll benefit from the BH though

I don't have to work bank holidays but they are no benefit to me because I would rather take my annual leave when I want to, not when the government "kindly" tells me that I can. I don't like crowds and I don't like being told what to do with my time. Although if everyone is at their local street party, maybe there won't be crowds. Goodness knows why there is even a BH, given the coronation is on the Saturday.

I don't think you can proceed with closing the road unless you are sure that everyone agrees

but there will always be someone who disagrees, surely. I don't remember being formally asked when my street did one for Wills and Kate, but maybe because we'd planned to be away we just said we were were away so it didn't affect us.

Not at all, the opposite in fact. I just think it's sad that people would actively try to 'rain on a parade'. Even if I don't like something or want to partipate in it, I enjoy seeing others have fun. As long as the party doesn't go on all night I don't see any harm with it. I think some of the attitudes on here are well sad, I can't think of any other word! I feel sorry for all you miserable sods.

As long as the party doesn't go on all night I don't see any harm with it.

Great, can you bring the stick on ears then?

Full title of party is Live and let live tampon and ear extravaganza

But it negatively affects other people. If neighbours want to get together in a back garden, why not. As long as they aren't too noisy and stop at a sensible time, like 10pm.

But a street party forces the issue because it closes the road (and if you live n a cul de sac you can't even go in the other direction to get out). You either have to join in, hide in your house all day or go out all day/away for the weekend. It is a massive inconvenience to others.

Yeah exactly so instead of being miserable and wallowing, why not have some fun instead 🤷‍♀️

Eh? How is it fun? A street party to celebrate a coronation is the very example of wallowing and misery for many people.

It's just a day. I wish more people were like OP. Fair point though re the street closure, I wonder would having it in the garden have the same party effect? Genuine question. Also curious would there be any occasion that you think this could be fun? For me I've sadly never been to a street party so it all seems quite exciting and fun, it's nothing to do with the RF just that I love a good party and wouldn't mind meeting my neighbours properly.

Send another note saying approximately half the street are in favour, that you are planning to go ahead, this will involve the road being closed and does anyone have any objections / concerns.

I used to work in health care so I would be on call some weekends / bank holidays so I would need to get my car out. You may have people like that.

I wouldn't want to attend a street party but I wouldn't object to other people.

As you have quite a good response you could consider doing something else, maybe borrow a local community centre or use people's gardens.

It’s one day, surely if you don’t want to put up with it equally people should be allowed to celebrate how they like without having to put up with negativity from people for the sake of one day! At least the op was polite and asked their neighbours if they wanted to opt in or out (paraphrasing). This isn’t the thread for people to complain in their anti monarchy stance, if you want to, create a thread for that and your followers, you can do that you know 👍

I really hope nobody is planning anything like this in our village. We have several firefighters living in the village, how the hell are they supposed to make it to the station within 5 minutes of a shout with roads closed all over the place? How will carers be able to do their jobs, most of them are stretched for time as it is!

Hence the use of the word presumably. Not that I was actually commenting on something you said and it was in reply to someone else!!

I personally don’t ‘benefit’ from many BHs! They’re always during my holidays! There is one that is actually during times I work, so I’m glad of the ‘extra’ BH as it comes just before one of the busiest time periods I will be expecting and I can use it as a day to catch up on some work!!

@lieselotte again I wasn’t responding to something you said, hence again why I will iterate that I used the word presumably here. There are others who will benefit from it, everyone I know benefits from it, and none of them have to use any of their AL entitlement, and we all work in different sectors!! I’m sorry for those it impacts on their AL but it’s one day, and for most once in a lifetime and part of history (whether you’re pro monarchy or not)

anyway, this thread is spiralling fast into pro and anti monarchy when it’s just about a sodding street party, so I’m gonna take my leave!!

Do you always catastrophise? I'm sure even if there were several street parties then fire-fighters can still get through, it's not like the streets are going to be blocked by concrete bollards ffs 🙄

Or they could approach the council and object, in the hope that they withdraw agreement. I think people should be approached before the decision was made.

Of course people can celebrate, but not "how they want to" if that has an effect on other people.

That’s a good point. 17 households is quite a large number and if some might, as @Ponderingwindow pointed out, coalesce with those who already put their names forward.

@Geminijust You are being very unreasonable to cancel when you have had a large number expressing interest. It would bring the mood down if you focus on the negatives. Who knows others might still pop in to enjoy the street party.

I'm not catstrophising, I'm being realistic! The fire station is a mile up a country lane and they HAVE to get there in under 5 minutes. If a bunch of people have laid tables and chairs out in the middle of the bloody road on the streets the firefighters live on how are they going to get their cars off their drives and up the road unless you expect them to just drive through all the tables and flag-waving numpties?! We are in a small village, there simply IS no other place they can park their cars so that they could get to them and get away quickly! It will be the same in other rural villages and towns. My stepdad is one of those firefighters and he gets called out on shouts all the time, doesn't matter if its Christmas/a coronation or any other day of the week!