We moved into this house nearly a year ago. Next door is a very nice family with 2 sons aged 12 and 10. My DS (5) gets on really well with the 10 year old who is a lovely boy in Yr 5 at the same school where DS is. He walks with us to school every day and at least twice a week he comes round to play with DS and DD who both love him. DS pops round there sometimes too, to see is "S" is there.
DH and I like the parents ... but not in a "we clicked right away" type way ... they are a fair bit older than us and a bit sensible unlike us . I get on well with the mum in a kind of 'chat over the fence' type way without being best buddies or anything.
Anyway ... when we moved here some of the other neighbours told us that they have had trouble with the mum next door in the past as she is the complainy type .... they told me some stories which I have chosen to ignore as she seems ok to me.
Anyway ... I will get to the point eventually . DS and the boys next door have been swapping Playstation games in the last few months. The boys next door showing DS how to do some difficult moves etc etc. It has worked well so far.
DS lent them his much loved and prized and fairly new Lego Star Wars game a couple of weeks ago. They had it for a week and since we got it back we haven't been able to get it to work. It has been damaged. I rang up Mrs Next Door and asked her (really nicely 'cos I am really nice) if her boys had noticed anything wrong with it when they had it as we haven't been able to get it to work since we got it back. She said that it had worked fine and that it had not been out of their machine the whole time they had it.
I said not to worry, that it must have been damaged somehow else ... lots of smiles and 'Oh, never minds'
So, today ... the 12 year old boy come round and says, "Can we have all our PS games back please because Mum doesn't want OUR games damaged in YOUR machine!"
I was a bit taken aback and tried not to look like this but happily gave him his games back. I did say to him that I was sure there was nothing wrong with our machine as all our other games worked perfectly and to tell his mum not to worry, I was sure his game would be fine.
Since he left I have been feeling a bit miffed really. I mean, DS loved his star wars game and can't play it anymore after they had it and now they say there is something wrong with our machine. DS is gutted his game is broken.
I know I won't do anything about it apart from grind my teeth for a while but will continue to smile nicely to Mrs Next Door and have a cup of tea with her now and again ...
But what would YOU do about something like this?
If you have got this far that is ... soooo sorry for exceedingly long and boring post