Very simple AIBU involving children playing outside.

[sauvignongone]

It’s Friday, busy week. DH has taken DC put to do their hobby and I’m contemplating a glass of red and lighting the fire.

New to the area (ish) so don’t really know the lay of the land but 3 primary school age boys playing out on their scooters, not a problem, lovely to hear kids playing and still weather/ligjt to do so however they are coming flying down the road (cup-de-sac with us the bottom house) down our drive and hitting the garage door,

AIBU to tell them to stop shattering my peach and go and scoot down their own driveway or am I being a miserable arse and should just suck it up for the sake of an hour light/playing time.

Tell them!

Tell them you'd like a word with their parents. IME parents whose kids would do something like this don't take kindly to other adults telling them off.

I’d tell them they need to stop before the garage door.

Like you the noise wouldn't bother me, nor coming on my drive, but I wouldn't have them hitting my garage door. I'd politely tell them not to do it. How old are they?

Just go out and tell them to play somewhere else.

100% tell them!

Not on your drive and not touching your garage door. Be polite but firm (maybe before you moved it was a friends house?) and hopefully they'll stop!

Definitely go and tell them

Tell them not to hit the garage and leave them to play.

Go out and tell them nicely. Also ask them what number they live in and they'll know you could end up at their house

Of course you have to tell them! Why would you let them continue to bang, and possibly damage, your garage door?

maybe they don’t realise that someone is home

Tell them it's lovely to see them enjoying themselves but they must not scoot onto your drive and they absolutely must not hit your garage door. Playing in the street is one thing (my ds is out the front right now with his football), but tresspassing onto someone else's property is unacceptable!

I like the image conjured by 'shattering my peach' 🍑 😁

Definitely tell them to stop coming onto your private property and committing assault against your garage! That is a perfectly reasonable request and their parents should have trained them before now to not do this.

I wouldn't tell them where to scoot instead, just that it absolutely cannot be on my driveway.

Just ask them politely to stop hitting the garage door.

Why would you start a thread instead of simply doing this?

literally everything that is wrong with the UK now.

Tell them to stop hitting your garage door. If they continue, ask where their parents are and go over and tell them to control their kids. Bill for Garage door will be incoming as soon as the damage has been assessed.

Tell them, and if they start yelling just tell them you will call the police as they are causing damage to your property, they should not be trespassing.

Log the days and times these inebriates trespass on your property then contact your local authority council website and upload the log as a complaint, so the council can threaten them and their parents who will be warned to get their off spring under control or they'll be hell to pay in the form of a hefty fine.

Of course it’s nice that children play outside when it’s fine and light. Damaging, or potentially damaging someone else’s property isn’t. Benches in a communal garden here have had to be replaced because of children jumping on and off them and, in the end, someone pays and it isn’t the children.

Tell them.

"inebriates"?

They are primary school aged children so whilst TFI Friday and all that, let's hope they're sober!

I'm glad you think it's funny

Maybe she means high on Moam or Haribo

Ooohhh was it meant to be sarcasm? I didn't catch that.

Those'll do that to kids, to be fair 😉

My autistic teen ds describes babies as tiny, angry, drunk humans!

Thanks everyone, they actually went into their house just after I posted so no further action needed…

DH said it’s not the 1st time though so I’ll definitely have a firm work next time!

This.

Ask them which house they live at and their names and then tell them politely not to bash into your garage door.

Do it in an OH MY GOODNESS ARE YOU OK? I HEARD A TERRIBLE NOISE! Way and they'll be so embarrassed