to be narked at these teenagers

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Was sat in living room last night watching tv. Think it was about 8pm. Makeup off, dressing gown on, eating some toast

My living room looks onto the pavement, but there is a reasonably sized front garden and low wall in front of that.

about 8 teenagers went past, looked in then started pulling faces and making rude gestures and waving etc.

I kind of didnt know what to do, so just ignored it, but now i wish i had either pulled a face or something.

I think it was being in my dressing gown with no make up on that stopped me.

I recognised a few of them, they go past reasonably regulary. Am wondering if i should accidentally spray them with the hose next time im watering the front garden.

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lol. Teenagers are funny creatures. It amuses me the things that they find amusing. I'd have pmsl if I was you.

Recently two teens came into the shop I work in asked how much the drinks were. I told them and they replied "Sorry, how much?" when I repeated the price the ran out of the shop in fits of giggles muttering "Parrot, parrot..." That made my night

except they werent 12 or 13. More like 16/17.

Probably thought they were cool or rebels.

Just kind of felt invaded, seeing as i was in my house, in my dressing gown watching tv.

If it had been in a shop or something i woiuld have done something.

Get some nice blinds. You know, the kind that let light in but stop people outside from seeing you in your dressing gown.

Teenagers can be horrid. Actually, people can be horrid.

Close the curtains/blinds next time. If you had of done anything, you would have been playing their silly little game with them and they would have been likely to come back for more. My house is a street house too. We draw the curtains as soon as the lights go on, then no one can see in.

lights werent on, it was only 8pm. so it was light.

Im not going to draw the curtains everytime im in the living room watching tv.

what im going to do is spray the fuckers with the hose pipe next time i see them

and then laugh and pull a face

Thing is, its not a street house, there is a fair bit of garden, then and border, then a wall......

but i do have big bay windows.....??

fuckers

Hmm. Recently I got stuck behind a minibus with teenage girls in it. They were waving out the back window but, TBH I was concentrating more on driving up the A1 and keeping the dc's in the back amused and wasn't paying attention. All of a sudden, they started giving us the finger and pulling faces and then sticking their bums up to the window at us. ds1 was mystified, I just ignored them.

But it made me rememeber when I was a teenager on school trips - I remember we used to wave at passing motorists and then if they waved back we would laugh and jeer. I have absolutely NO idea a) why we did it or b) why on earth it was remotely amusing to us, but we POSL at it. Teenagers are bloody odd, and they don't have much of a habit of thinking about others' feelings. But if they remember it in years to come they'll probably cringe

i love looking into people's houses as i walk by
although i wouldnt be making faces.

you coudl have waved back. you were looking, they were looking.

Stand by the window, and throw open your dressing gown (wearing nothing underneath) and jump up and down.
That will scare them off/get them calling Childline.

yes, i supose teenagers waving and pulling faces is not much to complain about really is it.

i sound like a right grumpy old woman!

still going to spray them thouhg

slarty - yes, so do i

But i dont pull faces, or make rude genstures.

its not that that bothered me, its just i felt quite vunerable actually. which sounds a bit odd.

I would ignore them and buy a blind.

When you are that age you think you are just having a laugh and haven't really got the social skills to realise you may come over a bit threatening.

Don't spray them fgs, you'll be in for misery from them for a long time after!
When I first started living with xp we rented a maisonette above offices on the quiet end of the high street. Every weekend we'd have a gathering of pissed teenagers outside our front door screaming/shouting/fighting/shagging etc..
About the same time we noticed our gas boiler pressure kept getting too high and to release it we twisted a knob and hey presto a stream of warm water squirted out on to the high street!
Well one night we were in bed and being disturbed by the teenagers so had the bright idea of twisting the knob and soaking all of them! Was hysterical at the time but for months after we endured even worse shouting outside our flat as they wanted us 'outside-now'! Got quite scary after a while but they eventually left us alone when we didn't retaliate with the water pipe!!
Another thing we did was one night a young couple were arguing outside our door, she was crying saying it was over and generally making dicks of themselves. We quietly picked up our entry phone and waited for an opportune moment to butt in with their conversation in a 'oh you bad boy you've made her cry now, just kiss and make up' kind of way
Oh the good old days [sigh]

Bet they fancy you really...