To be mad at tourists?

[Laserbeam24]

AIBU to be mad at tourists? I live in a place that's popular with cruise ships. Which is fine, great for the local economy. My house it's is right at the end of the Main Street, cue lots of tourists holding maps and doing lots of pointing.

Today, the number of tourists have totalled to HALF of our population. That's a different gripe altogether, though.

I have two cats who enjoy sitting in the window and watching the world go by. I also have a six month old. The issue that I have, is that tourists are stopping to tap on my window (!!!!) to get a response from the cats. I could understand if this was a child once in a blue moon, but it's multiple times every day, and typically grown adults every time there's a liner in.

I've also had a good number of people look into my windows. Not just a sneaky glance as they walk past, but two hands on the window around their face so they can get a proper look in.

I've tried blinds. Someone knocking gave the cats such a fright they jumped and broke the blinds. I don't want to have to keep my curtains shut every day. I'm not going to scold my cats for being at the window, it's their house too! What do I even do?

I'm worried that my daughter is going to grow up thinking this is normal. It's also just incredibly infuriating. Where are people's manners! AIBU?

The responses on this post from some people are so odd. Some people think it's normal that tourists or indeed anyone would walk onto your property, tap on your windows and cup their hands around their faces to look into your house?

OP it's the height of bad manners. It would infuriate me too.

And incidentally, if I walk past a house that has lights on/no curtains, I look in. I am nosey like that. What I don't do is walk onto the actual property/garden and walk up to the window and stare in. Two entirely different scenarios.

I was going to suggest plantation shutters which you can close at the bottom half and keep open on the top but if you rent, you don't want to be spending that kind of money. That opague stuff works well - we have it on the lower part of our bathroom window.

Sorry, but pedestrians have the right to walk on all roads except motorways.