Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

[Lucylooloo2]

Just that really, had lots of notifications of movement on the doorbell camera and lo and behold a kid (8ish years old) from a few houses down with a bunch of daffodils in her hand.

Checked mine in my front garden when I got home and Every. Single. One. has been taken.

I’m just really sad tbh. Know there are much bigger problems in the world but they were a little spark of joy for me 😕

I'm not sure why people think anything needs to be explained to the child as if she simply made an error.

She deliberately left the flowers to enjoy in her own garden and stole every one of her neighbour's daffodils so she could enjoy those inside also. Leaving her neighbour with none.

I'd wonder about how concerned the mother will be.

So people who think it’s ok… would they mind if a pint of milk or parcels were stolen from their doorstep? What if the parcel is just a book worth £1 from abebooks. Does that make it ok?

The 8 year old is presumably not factoring that in. They're 8!

That's just the icing on the cake. Honestly, OP, I would speak to her mum - before the tulips disappear!

I would be annoyed and agree 8 is far too old to be coming into people's gardens and pinching their flowers.

On a lighter note, without boundaries who knows where this lack of respect for other people's bulbs will end up:

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This. Some of the responses on here are batshit. 8 is plenty old enough to know you don't go into other people's gardens uninvited, let alone steal flowers.

Seems like so many people let their kids do absolutely whatever they want with so little teaching of right from wrong. Depressing.

Yep. It's the way the child knew not to pick mummy's flowers, but the neighbour's were fair game!

This is the most unhinged, stupid thing I have read all day. Maybe OP should also buy her some
chocolate as a treat. Jesus f Christ.

Aww, and when your neighbours' kids steal your earrings from the trinket dish (when unfortunately the window was left open) and the little Borstal shites got in, maybe you can give them your pendant as well, so next year they will have a set? Are you seriously proposing to reward ASBO behaviour? I hope this is acing in in terms of sarcasm on your part and I am just taking everything at face value again?

What rubbish. If they are £1 buy them!!

This kind of shit attitude is ruining the country.
Someone grew those in their own garden and now they are GONE and won't grow back for a whole year.
Everyone walking past and the gardener could have enjoyed them for a few weeks. But now noone can. It's not sweet.

Very annoying - I would tell the neighbour to explain to her daughter not to do it. I remember as a kid picking the heads off roses from our garden and next door's to make 'perfume' and getting bollocked for it. I didn't do it maliciously but was definitely old enough to know not to do it.

@Mamofboys5972

do you think it would be super sweet if the kids also stole some sweets from the shop for Mother’s Day, to go with the flowers?

@abracadabra1980

no, you wouldn’t, Hun.

I'm stunned that people think this is OK. How the hell have you raised your kids? It's stealing. I'd be absolutely fuming if some strange kid came into my garden and nicked my flowers.

Ok you’re drunk maybe because that response doesn’t even make sense. Sober up “hun”

Oh maybe I have a totally different view to everyone else. I wouldn't mind kids picking flowers 🤷‍♀️ each to their own

OP, I would be upset too.
A long time ago I grew cherry tomatoes in my front garden border as I'd run out of space in the veggie patch.
One afternoon I heard children outside laughing, went to the window and saw that they'd picked most of my cherry tomatoes and had lobbed them at the house wall on the opposite side of the road!!!
I was livid.

Co signed

I remember when my friend and I were children and picked our neighbour’s roses to make rose perfume. The next time we tried it she came out and told us to not pick them, that they were for everyone to enjoy - she was also really sweet about it when we told her why we picked them, but I never picked someone else’s flowers again and have always told my children not to. I guess I didn’t know any better at the time.

You can buy a bunch for a £1-£2. Nobody has the right to go into somebody's garden and help themselves to flowers that don't belong to them. Our local big park has lot's of daffodils every year. They are for everyone to enjoy. But every year people have to be reminded not to pick them.

@Catsbreakfast

it does make sense. I’m saying that the poster who said she’d make up a gift for the kid with bulbs etc wouldn’t do that. And she wouldn’t unless she was living in an Enid Blyton novel. It feels twee and disingenuous and invalidating of OP’s very natural and normal feelings of annoyance. Hope that clarifies. No booze has been imbibed here Hun (not yet anyway!)

You think it’s fine for kids to steal. Most of us don’t. That’s the difference.

The more I think about this the more I’m surprised that the child’s mother hasn’t been found to apologise. Surely she would have questioned where an eight year old had obtained a bunch of daffodils from and would then have realised that a serious apology was owed to the OP? An eight year old would hardly be able to have trotted off to Tesco to buy them. Or maybe the child is a liar on top of everything else.

So theft is OK in your tiny world!
I would go and tell the 'parents' that they had been sprayed with a powerful spray to kill bugs in them, the effects will not show for 48 hours. Give them something to worry about.

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