To find pavement chalking by neighbour unreasonable?

[Hanji83]

We are in a row of houses which have a footpath running in front of the road with a grassed area either side. One of the neighbours has two kids, who for the past week have been drawing on the pavement using chalk. It looks an utter mess. Would it be wrong of me to say something to the parents?

Crikey OP, I guess you can’t help finding this an issue but surely if this is bothering you, you must spend an awful lot of time feeling upset or annoyed?

Not only would a chalky pavement not bother me, I think it is lovely.

I don't know how to play hopscotch

I know just what you mean OP
Where I walk my dog there’s often a whole activity course
Hop here, stand in circle, jump, etc.
It goes on for ages.
It took me 3 attempts to get it right this morning.

You had ornaments! We had to cut out pictures of ornaments from the newspaper and stick them on the mantlepiece with spit.

Newspapers?!! AND cutting implements?! Hark
at you Lady Muck!! 🧐

Get a grip of yourself

You absolute misery. They are drawing pictures with chalk. It’s harmless creative fun. As long as they aren’t drawing dicks or anything like that just leave them be.

God, this thread has cheered me up. I've been a miserable cow all day and have snapped at a number of people (for reasons that still seem perfectly valid, tbh, I feel like today has been a particularly bellend-heavy one...) but this post has really lifted my spirits, because even in the depths of my snarkiness I wouldn't be as mean spirited and petty as this, so overall I feel like I'm not as mardy as I'd feared and will be going to bed on a high, thanks OP!

Kindly, you need to lighten up. Kids chalking pictures on the pavement aren’t anything to get your knickers in a twist about.

Do you have hobbies?

I love when kids chalk a hopscotch grid on the pavement. It means that I can have a quick go.If the kids are there, so much the better!

@Hanji83 Are you the summer time version of Scrooge?

I REALLY wanna draw a hopscotch grid on the pavement tomorrow now, and have a go. 😀 I reckon all the kids in my cul de sac would join in! 😆

(Probably even some of the adults!)

My kids have been painting with chalk a couple of times this holiday. I even let them venture onto the pavement off our driveway. They spent a whole morning the first time and only came in because it was too hot in the midday sun. They had the best of time, displayed a bit of teamwork, encouragement of each other and worked on their creativity skills. Other kids have stopped as they've walked past to admire or work out what they are looking at. It's brought smiles to people's faces, do I give a F about it being unsightly? Absolutely not, it'll all finally wash away properly in tomorrows biblical rain.

Just leave it. They’re outside not sitting alone in a room. The chalk will wash off. Are you real??!!

That actually made me laugh and not much I come across at the moment is managing to do that

You had a mantelpiece?
We had a fire in the middle of the room with a hole in the ceiling

Quite frankly, considering the behaviour of some of the kids where l live, a bit of chalk on a pavement would barely register with me.

That was the point 🤦‍♀️

YABU, we did this in the 70's, did you not play hopscotch? It's got to be better than playing on consoles all day. I'd love to see this.

Or maybe a library ticket?

To be fair we never actually had a fire in the fireplace, it was where we kept the ferrets.

How much time do you spend outside looking at the pavement, really?

OP, what will happen if it fades naturally, or gets washed with the next rain?

You win.
I proper lolled