A neighbour was met with little sympathy after complaining about kids playing in the middle of a cul de sac.
Taking to Mumsnet’s popular ‘Am I being unreasonable’ thread to vent and gauge other people’s opinions, the forum user raged about the area being used as a ‘basket ball court’. But other people using the parenting forum failed to sympathise, with one saying ‘you don’t own the road.’
Sharing their frustrations, the original poster said: “Last b***** forty minutes spent listening to kids bounce a s****** basketball right in the middle of the road. Maybe they're going for some sort of world record?
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“I've gone from been mildly annoyed to hoping the b***** thing goes through their car window and not mine. I can see why the parents don't want them banging outside their window if they keep them in the back garden, but what are they thinking letting them out to play with a s****** ball in the middle of the road? AIBU? [Am I being unreasonable] Really?”
The post was met with a flurry of responses, with many people sharing the same opinion. One person said: “Yabu [You are being unreasonable]. Kids play and make noise.”
A second said: “Yes, YABVVU. You don't own the road”. A third person told the original poster to “stop being so bloody miserable.”
While a fourth said: “Yabu. I would love to live in a cul de sac for this very reason. I can see how it's annoying but lighten up and try to remember back to when you was a child, and how great it was to play outside.”
The person who wrote the post then returned to add: “I'm not objecting to the kids playing - quite happy to grin and bear it, I'm objecting to a ******* heavy ball been lobbed about by peoples cars and using the middle of the road (the bit with cars driving up and down) as a s****** basketball court.”
But there was still little understanding from the Mumsnet community with one person saying: “We live in a cul de sac and I prefer my DCs to play there than out of sight. All the children who live here play outside so all the parents are pretty aware when driving through. It's nice that children can play outside!”
One person did happen to agree though, saying: “I agree with you. I live (until today! Yay!) in a cul de sac and the b***** kids do my head in! They NEVER move when you're trying to park, and scream and shout to each other when I'm carrying sleeping DD in from the car… Losing cul de sac living and the kids is a massive moving plus!”
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