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Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

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Lucylooloo2 · 21/03/2025 22:48

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 😕

OP posts:
Thirteenblackcat · 25/03/2025 19:54

Wishingplenty · 23/03/2025 11:41

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.

Oh what a vile excuse of a person you are, completely contradicting yourself as well.

Did your nasty words make you feel better?

LazyArsedMagician · 25/03/2025 21:41

Growlybear83 · 25/03/2025 16:18

@LazyArsedMagician. Surely eight year olds know what daffodils and daisies are? And I don’t think it’s appropriate for any eight year olds to be allowed to roam the streets alone at that age.

Missing the point spectacularly.

And this was a neighbour. Maybe she had been trusted to walk to the end of the road to post a card? Who knows? Who cares? Don't allow your 8 year old out, that's fine. We're all the boss of our own parenting.

DreamTheMoors · 25/03/2025 23:47

Lucylooloo2 · 22/03/2025 14:28

Just wanted to give everyone an update, messaged the mum last night on WhatsApp (it was bed and bath time by the time we got home so didn’t want to interrupt so late) - it’s still showing as unread and there’s been no reply, but my doorbell did ping again this morning. The mum come round with the daughter and left a small flower pot on our doorstep.

We were visibly home at the time so tbh it would have been nice if they had knocked on to verbally apologise instead of dropping and running without acknowledgement, but it’s something

Edited

She’s embarrassed.
That’s what embarrassed mothers do.
She knows her kid did wrong, so she dropped the flowerpot and skedaddelled outta there as fast as her kid’s legs could carry her.
She’s also a coward. A big one. Huge.

Agapornis · 28/03/2025 19:15

Agapornis · 23/03/2025 17:34

Some utter cunt just beheaded my first tulip of the year 😡😡😡 didn't even take the whole flower to enjoy, just ripped off the petals. May they burn in hell.

(No snails or slugs in that patch - too dry - definitely human, I guess dog at a stretch)

Non-OP flower thief update. Someone picked ANOTHER yellow tulip through the fence (metal railing)...during school run time 🙄 So I attached some trellis with cable ties to keep the riffraff out and tulips in. This morning there was a yellow tulip poked back into the trellis 😁

If you're the parent that made your child return the tulip - thank you! I was upset and now I'm less so.

Snakebite61 · 25/04/2025 11:15

LoremIpsumCici · 21/03/2025 22:49

They will grow back next year, so a minor harm.

What an ignorant reply.

RedPony1 · 25/04/2025 13:47

I picked flowers once as a child, took them home to my mum who went mental!! She took me to a shop, made me use my pocket money to buy a plant and took me to the house i stole them from to apologise and "replace"

Never again did i touch a flower that was growing 😂

Marosanne · 25/04/2025 15:10

Wisgingplenty No, it's obviously not the worst crime ever committed, but now you're just creating a strawman (i.e. exaggerating to try to make the oposite argument seem ridiculous). No one is "going to war," but it's still wrong to pick other people's flowers or to pick flowers that have been specially planted to give pleasure to everyone. Teach your child the difference between wildflowers/weeds and flowers that have been carefully planted to beautify our public areas. Also, I think you mean "petty." "Petted" has an entirely different meaning lol

ThatHazelBear · 12/05/2025 16:50

The child stole someone else's property. This isn't cute or sweet, it's wrong. This child should be taught that, now.

Needspaceforlego · 12/05/2025 20:05

ThatHazelBear · 12/05/2025 16:50

The child stole someone else's property. This isn't cute or sweet, it's wrong. This child should be taught that, now.

Picked or not the daffodils would be dead by now. Time to let it rest.

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