Living a couple doors down from me is a family of 5 (parents and 3 kids), the youngest kid (about 4 I reckon) had his birthday party today. When I say it's a birthday party, it's a proper shindig. They're a very unpleasant family (police are always round, dad has a criminal record and the eldest son has been nicked a fair few times for anti social behaviour) but the mum is a very popular figure in the estate because she owns a nail bar. They have a very big family and this woman seems to be the 'heart and soul' of it so to speak, so if theres any parties or family gettogethers the clan all gather THERE. Anyway the estate's blocked up with cars all the way down with relatives and friends piling into the house and just leaving cars blocking over the timid neighbours' driveways (they've wisely not parked over ours or some of the scarier figures on this street, let's just say we take no prisoners
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They hired a bouncy castle, had the pump going since 11 this morning with the music blaring. Half the town's worth of relatives and kids piled into the house, and all day I've heard nonstop music. The sound of kids shouting/screaming/swearing on the bouncy castle lasted until about 5 until the "little shits" were called in (mother's words not mine). Some of the kids went home with their parents and I thought the party would be over. But nope. It was just over for the kids.
The music has carried on, all the adults have stayed outside but got even louder. The women are cackling like witches, men gobbing off. Clearly rowdy with booze. It's now nearly 10 at night and the music is still going, and as I speak a bunch of shirtless middle aged men are bouncing on the bouncy castle
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My kids are tired, they cant sleep, and we cant do anything but pray it ends before 3am because the police dont want to know and if we go over ourselves we'd probably be lucky if we still had our kneecaps. But im just thinking to myself, this is a little kid's birthday party and surely this is purely tasteless isnt it?