Just a wee rant if you will permit me...

I have a neighbour whose border backs onto our front garden, this woman has a Border Collie, who spends it’s time amusing itself by spinning, barking at the sky and crashing into the wooden fence with his manky old tennis ball, he has actually broken through the fence panels a few times, and I have always been grateful it isn’t bordering onto the back garden.

This morning when I went out with my lot, there was a tennis ball in the front garden, not an odd phenomenon - there is a family of what seems like a dozen children always kicking balls onto other peoples gardens - so I figured finders keepers and took it with us on our walk, then tossed it into the shed when we got back.

This afternoon, while I was upstairs, there was a knock on the front door, and the usual eruption from the dogs, - and I am talking ballistic – and when I got them in the other room, I opened the door, and there stands this woman’s two tiny grandchildren WITH THE COLLIE, asking please could the dog have it’s ball back.

She sent her grandchildren with the dog to the front door!

Maybe I am just an intolerant and unkind person, but what WAS she thinking?? I always lock the front door when I am hanging out the washing or upstairs, because Kaiser can open it, and this is one of the occasions I am hugely thankful I did!

Okay, sorry, I’m done now.

Can't fix STUPID!

I think Anne covered it.

Ditto!

And I thought we had a monopoly on those idiots on this side of the pond. Guess it's global.

Next time, your answer ought to be, "No, the Grinch stole your ball, because you didn't keep it in your OWN garden!" (SLAM) When I was a little kid, there was at least one neighbor we knew NEVER to annoy, Disturb, and UPSET out of fear for our lives !!! And now I've turned into her, LOL ... Children do well to learn early-on that they & their antics are NOT always welcome everywhere at every moment by everybody, and this is one way young humans are taught the important Life Lesson of personal BOUNDARIES.

I thought Tracey said the grandmother "sent" the kids to her home. Why take it out on them? They may not have even realized that there were dogs in the house that needed to be feared in the event that Kaiser (a dog) opened the door. Poor kids could have just been stuck in the middle between two adults that are at odds.

ETA: reference to "two tiny grandchildren"... hardly the type of hardened delinquents that one would need to slam the door on.

Edited by Duane Hull (08/12/2013 12:04 PM)
Edit reason: eta

We not at odds Duane, She doesn’t know I think she is an inconsiderate neighbour and a lousy dog owner who needs to cut her grass more than once a month in the summer!!

Don’t forget I am a Brit, and as such, us Brits moan and bitch about our neighbours behind the net curtains, but say “good morning!” and smile politely!

Tracey, that IS the real beauty of having a safe place you can go to rant.

 Quote: Duane Hull

I thought Tracey said the grandmother "sent" the kids to her home. Why take it out on them? They may not have even realized that there were dogs in the house that needed to be feared in the event that Kaiser (a dog) opened the door. Poor kids could have just been stuck in the middle between two adults that are at odds.

ETA: reference to "two tiny grandchildren"... hardly the type of hardened delinquents that one would need to slam the door on.

Duane, when my little friends and I were in the primary grades of elementary school, we were anything BUT "hardened delinguents" LOL -- And we definitely figured out which neighborhood adults NOT to intrude upon, without suffering any lingering trauma from that Learning Experience ... Then when rearing my own sons, I always taught them not to knock on doors where they knew there were NO children in the household, unless specifically invited to to "come calling" by a resident adult What did I tell my boys ??? I just explained that not all people appreciate being bugged by young kids, and that's how they learned to respect the personal BOUNDARIES of our more "Hermetic & Reclusive" characters in the area.