Children chalking over our land

[Charliec12]

Hi all, am I over reacting? My neighbours brought their children some chalks at the weekend. The children are chalking everywhere with them including on my driveway which we half share with them. My OH said to one of the children tonight that the area looked a mess. Said child started crying and then the Mum came out and was confrontational and annoyed with me that I don’t agree with it looking nice in the area. I also have 2 young children and I get they want to have fun.

Well I just put all their bins in 😁

124 replies certainly says "not that bothered" 😂

Not my fault people are replying 😁

Polite to reply to advice too if I could but obviously a lot of comments to reply to.

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Nobody is offended. They are however thinking you sound ridiculous.

I'm just off to attend to my areas
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You would think so wouldn’t you but a poster seems to disagree. I am not worried what people think of me to be honest. Land/driveway same thing people know what I mean.

I’ve only read 10 pages worth so I don’t know if someone else has shared this. Very neighbourly.
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I hope those kids are paying peppercorn rent for use of that land

'Over your actual land'?

I would suggest threatening them with a shotgun, Roger Rabbit styleee or the alternative would be to encourage them to play safely and nicely in the driveway. You know...Get some fresh air, play hopscotch, noughts and crossed, draw a giant snakes and ladders.
You'll never guess what will happen when it rains......the problem will literally disappear!

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They still could have asked us. My kids don’t start chalking on shared or anyone else’s area.

Maybe they should. The poor things have a shit enough existence as it is. You would have thought that you would want them to experience some of life's pleasures.

How dare you talk common sense and call people out for excusing rudeness and bad manners! Cool story, you must be lying though because every single chalk specialist on this thread has stated multiple times that all chalk always washes away once it rains every single time without fail! Every single bit, it only needs a tiny spattering of water and it’s washed clean like all of the sins of the human race. It’s only chalk on a driveway that floats on thin air because don’t you dare even dream of trying to imply that it sits on land even though by legal definition that’s exactly what it sits on just because it’s not got as much ground as Buckingham Palace because everyone can and will lose their fucking minds over it.

Let’s also not allow the truth to get in the way of hundreds of people bashing one woman over being dismayed by children other than hers chalking on the area that is stipulated on her deeds. You must be a true child-hater! If you have children, they need to be removed from your care immediately due to your anti-chalkist views and the fact that you must ban them in partaking in anything fun ever. Didn’t you know the majority of people on this thread are experts in property and chalk law? The majority of this thread is about as much nonsense as I have written in this post but well done for writing one of the most sensible and objective posts I’ve seen on this thread today. You also managed it without resorting to low-level tactics of being spiteful and digging up the OP’s personal struggles in life which 90% of people cannot be courteous enough not to do. 👏 You are correct, this is exactly the reason why so many children are being dragged up to think they don’t need to abide by rules and respect people.

I feel sad for your children. No other kids in the street will want to play with them. They won’t be invited to parties and sleepovers will never happen. You will forever be labelled the family with the angry bullying dad.

Have the police been round yet OP? For your destruction of property and trespass charges. The way you’re carrying on I’m sure you must’ve phoned them by now.

Because that isn’t part of dyslexia. It is a sign of poor education though.

Why is it that when a man is shouty wanker to women or children his wife or his mother will always say how he is adored by others?

What a stupid comment, there are many different types of Dyslexia so of course it could be a sign of it. Regardless, poor education isn’t something to shame a person for and there will never be any merit in trying to one-up someone by using it against them.

You don’t get brownie points in life for lauding a spelling mistake over someone. There could be a number of reasons from ability to access education to personal or learning difficulties as to why a person lacks education. Emotional intelligence is equally as important in life as academic and if you’re going to be dim enough to try and humiliate a person over their spelling or level of education then that’s a sign that you can’t be altogether as intelligent as you like to think you are and that you lack integrity. Arrogance is a very unbecoming trait in a person.

Why do they have a sh*t existence? They are all happy children. Down to the parents to control them like I do with my kids.

What is? Because I don’t like anyone chalking on my driveway?

I’ve explained many times what I mean about Land. Driveway, property etc. Not difficult to understand really.

My kids are very happy and have many friends. They chalk on the areas we own and respect others personal paths, gardens, driveways etc. My husband is well respected too just because he was shocked about mess doesn’t make him a bad person 🙄

I get you now. What a sad life you must lead pulling people up on spelling and typos and then assuming they had a poor education 🙄

OP let it go.

@Charliec12 Gently, I suggest you step away from this thread now. You spent all day yesterday, and are back here at 6.30am, trying to explain your actions and rationale for your actions to a bunch of people who think the world revolves around them and their children.
You will never win, even if you are in the right (which you are in relation to original post). The more you respond, the more you will be goaded here.
On another day, if you had worded this differently, you may have recieved support; sadly, you hit the cadre who think children should not be criticised and that if you don't think everything they say and do is wonderful and quite unpunishable, you are the enemy