Am I a mean old lady?

[Deleted]

Are you ill or do you otherwise need (truly need) a nap?

If not, it's pre- or post-dinner play and while I might ask them to try hard to keep it down, I wouldn't stamp on their play all together.

[Deleted]

Unfortunately thats just a part of apartment living.

If you're not sick/asleep/working I'd say turn on the tv or some music to drown them out, otherwise suck it up.

[Deleted]

Um, anything outside of the apartment walls / boundaries of a patio is "common area."

Unless you are paying rent on that specific plot of land.

[Wrath0fKuus]

Put on some white noise and let the kids have fun.

[Deleted]

Yep, you're being kind of a grouch. I'm sure it's annoying, but they'll probably go play somewhere else or go inside eventually.

[Deleted]

Kinda.

[Deleted]

You could play the explicit versions of Eminem and a few other names that I can't recall right now out the window when they're around. Soon enough they should repeat some key words at home, point to your window when asked where they heard that and then their moms will keep them away.

Maybe.

[fiddles]

Pssh. I'd politely ask them to go play elsewhere.

[lsea0323]

I've been feeling extra combative lately, so take this with a grain of salt... but if my kids came home and told me they were asked to leave a common area (granted the front of your patio isn't 'common', but still public property) in a neighborhood that I pay for as well, in the middle of the day, I'd be pretty pissed off. If they were being destructive or belligerent that's a different story.

After dark/quiet hours though? I would ask them to leave.

[Deleted]

Come on, these kids probably don't have a yard they can play in or a play area in the complex. Is it so hard to deal with a little noise for a while in the evening? Its not like its 10pm and they're throwing rocks through your window.

[mushmouse]

If its grass and dirt soak it with water so it's muddy.  Their parents will take care of the 'find somewhere else to play' part.

[EmilieMadison]

Start dropping water balloons on them. Filled with mustard.

[BlackCanary]

Yeah, a little. But I can be the same way. *get off my lawn!*

[EmilieMadison]

Mar 5, 2013 17:57:10 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Mar 5, 2013 17:55:05 GMT -5 mushmouse said:

If its grass and dirt soak it with water so it's muddy.  Their parents will take care of the 'find somewhere else to play' part.

Yes, vandalism of a public area is definitely they way to go. 

Vandalism???

[Deleted]

Yes. You are.


Lol.

[margotmacomber]

LOL at vandalism.  LOL.  Vandalism.  It's raining here, so I'm going to need to know who to call this one in on.

[Deleted]

I think piles of dog shit are a great remedy for this. Seriously, though, we were never allowed to run around other people's homes screaming our heads off. That wouldn't change if we were in a crowded neighborhood of smaller homes (which we were) or an apartment complex. If the kids are old enough to play without parental supervision then they're old enough to learn that lesson.

[jenna]

Earplugs + white noise.

[Deleted]

Mar 5, 2013 18:04:00 GMT -5 margotmacomber said:

LOL at vandalism.  LOL.  Vandalism.  It's raining here, so I'm going to need to know who to call this one in on.

"god is vandalizing my yard!"

[BlackCanary]

Mar 5, 2013 18:05:36 GMT -5 @pjfranklin said:

I think piles of dog shit are a great remedy for this. Seriously, though, we were never allowed to run around other people's homes screaming our heads off. That wouldn't change if we were in a crowded neighborhood of smaller homes (which we were) or an apartment complex. If the kids are old enough to play without parental supervision then they're old enough to learn that lesson.

Agreed. 

Also, I love your sn. 

[Deleted]

looooollll at water as vandalism. that's a gem

[Deleted]

Mar 5, 2013 19:15:24 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

Tell them they have to be quiet or else the little garden elves who live there will go find somewhere else to live. Then show them how to play nice and quietly around the elves and how elves love when kids play by them because happy kid energy is like solar power for their houses but they have supersonic hearing and loud noises scare them.

you are awesome. this is adorable.

[mushmouse]

Mar 5, 2013 18:14:30 GMT -5 letsgetweird said:

It's already muddy out there. One of the kids had a dog and tied the leash to my patio. They're could be dog poop already out there.

I'm laughing at the "toys" they brought out there. A purple lamp, a big wooden box, and a bluebonnet painting in a frame.

It's getting cuter.  I feel like they have forgotten that you are there and this is their secret hideaway!