Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

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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 😕

@Diorchristian 😂maybe the OP doesn't want ANY of her flowers picked! Really not 'win win' in that scenario!

They weren’t expensive perennials, they were daffodils.

All that fuss your making over flowers that are only one rungy up from a weed is truly pathetic. One only assumes you have no real problems.

@Bitofanchange it doesn't matter how expensive or cheap they were. The OP clearly stated that they gave her 'sparks of joy' thereby being cherished in her garden. It was sad for her to see each one cut and even sadder to see the one in the child's own garden intact. That's selfish behaviour- but not the child's fault as clearly hadn't been taught boundaries and lack of good role modelling.

What a mean post.

Daffodils aren't one rung up from a weed, if you don't treat them right, they don't flower. And some people's front gardens are their pride and joy, something you obviously don't get

Firstly, a weed is a plant in the wrong place.

Secondly, people deliberately plant daffodils because they want them in their gardens. I don't have a lot of "things" because they don't matter much to me, but I do have a lot of plants because those are something that bring me joy and calm.

Taking my flowers is the same to me as someone walking in and taking ornaments off the mantle to someone else. I plant daffs be ause they remind me of my grandma pointing and laughing that winter was nearly over when she spotted one.

You don't take other people stuff. Regardless of whether you feel it to be important.

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No. She shouldn't go unto other people's gardens and she shouldn't knock on strangers' doors. She is not entitled to pick anyone's flowers.

We have a 'woodlouse cafe' in the garden! A small stack of pallets filled with rotting wood, cardboard, cuttle fish, and random veg/table scraps that they like to eat. Dd is obsessed with woodlice and has 20 boxes of rare and exotic species in her room.

I don't mind them being in the garden, I just wish it hadn't become a free for all where they now eat everything in sight!

I'd accept the flowers as an apology and move on.
An 8 year old who walks past their garden full of flowers to rip them out of the neighbours will no doubt already be hard work for her parent(s), it's not normal 8 year old behaviour, but it doesn't mean she'll do anything your way as she's aware now that you have a camera.

And you are just not very nice. Maybe you are the child's mum.

Which only flower once a year unlike e.g daisies r sweet peas which will flower more the more you pick them. The OP won't see the daffodils flower for another year. Also, it's not for you or anyone else to decide what is expensive or not, they were valuable to the OP.

Yes could be, or another pathetic parent who doesn't think DC need to be socially considerate as they are not themselves. There are unfortunately lots around!

That’s actually nice of the mum. Some people don’t like confrontation or might be too mortified for a face to face thing but it’s the thought that counts and I wouldn’t worry at all that it wasn’t face to face.

Is there a price point below which people are not allowed to be upset at trespass and theft?

But what if other children on the OPs road then decide to knock on her door and ask nicely to pick a couple of flowers? Where does it stop?

Your post is unkind and deliberately mean. Trying to take a hurtful shot at someone like this is what is 'truly pathetic'. I don't think I will report it though, may as well leave your grubby little unpleasantness up here to shame you some more.

What a nasty post. If you have/had kids would you literally not teach them that it’s wrong to steal flowers from other people’s gardens?

@AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta so there is flower picking bat signal is there?

Don't be a twat. Is there a hierarchy of flowers that people are allowed to steal from other people's gardens? Also, people with 'real' problems can still be upset or annoyed about other relatively minor issues. Sometimes, minor problems can be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

I think the responses are truly interesting and also concerning. It just goes to show if adults are prepared to go to war for a child taking a few flowers, then there really is no hope for achieving any peace on this earth. The human race truly is petted minded. Everyone has their own opinions and views, and the backlash I am receiving for offering a more level headed prespective shows what stage we are at, as humans trying to live in a more harmonious world. It ain't happening anytime soon. Op if it was such a heinous crime that this little girl committed then why did you not just call the police?Surely that would have been the right thing to do for such a serious incident.

All that fuss your making over flowers that are only one rungy up from a weed is truly pathetic. One only assumes you have no real problems.

We have a long, dark and quite bleak winter in the UK. Daffodils are one of the first signs that the end is in sight and that spring is definitely on the way. There is still so little colour, the trees have not yet started going green. Those splashes of yellow bring immense joy.

People who get joy from that will go to the time and effort to plant them. It doesn't matter if the bulbs are cheap, and besides who is to say that the person planting them isn't using limited resources to buy and plant something that will bring them happiness?

It's not okay to to vandalise and steal something that probably means a lot to someone, that they have put love and care into. Just because you don't understand the value, doesn't mean that none is there. For some people, this will be their last spring. They're entitled to the joy of their own flowers.

Don't be a twat. The world would be a better place if children and adults respected other people and didn't steal from them. Basic things children should be taught. Nobody's going to war.

Very rude to drop and run.
Such an awful example to the child.

No. After your mean and spiteful little post you don't get to lecture the rest of us sanctimoniously like this or present your view as 'level headed'. And you can lay off the exaggeration of what people are saying; no nobody is being aggressive, nobody is going to war and nobody thinks it is a police matter.

Much of the threat to world harmony is from people like this child's parents who don't foster respect in their children for other people's property, and by extension their boundaries; which ultimately lowers the quality of life for everyone.