Reasonable request or out of order?

Slinwagh said:
To be honest I was so taken aback by the request I was a bit bewildered by it. She did not come to see us she just asked while she was getting in the car and I was outside watching the kids.
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Don't go back to say no, just don't do anything different.

If your daughter wants to play outside let her, girls aren't overly noisy anyway. A child on its own either sex is unlikely to cause a noise nuisence.

If she approaches you again, tell her you can't comply. You don't have to give her your reasons either... I won't belittle you by going through them all, but you didn't buy a house with a garden to use it only during non working hours.
 
Here is another complaint from just over 12 months ago.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17740736&highlight=water+neighbour+daughter

Here is the original post from last June.

Yesterday afternoon out little 3 year old girl, Kira was in the garden playing. On the wall the separates us from the neighbours she had 3 tubs of water, large medium and small, the largest being the size of a coffee pot, the smallest being tea cup size.

She was happily playing away pouring water from one pot to another, next thing we hear "Excuse me Kira, can you please stop doing that, there is water on my cushions" now fair play if she was throwing gallons of water over the wall but that wasn't the case, couple that with the fact that the neighbours tone was plain nasty we were not best pleased.

What had happened was some of the water had run off the wall and dripped down onto the neighbours sun lounger, looking over the wall there was a trickle of water, hardly anything at all bearing in mind it was 20'c or more here yesterday!

Does anyone else think this is just very petty or are we being over sensitive!!!
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^ if that is the case they sound rather child unfriendly, and are probably miffed you moved in with a 'family'.

Just be abrupt with them, I am assuming they are older and misserable..
 
Man I miss the days when i was endlessly amused just by pouring water from one cup to another, people just look at me weird if i do that now :(
 
Sounds like she lives to moan. Probably why shes single, living the good life with us mugs the working public paying for her to raise her golf club swinging, retarded child.

Don't even entertain her comments any more.
 
I wouldn't go out of my way to give her my response. I would carry on as normal. If she mentioned it again I would politely tell her that it is not reasonable request but that I would ensure that my children didn't make any excessive noise, but I would continue to allow them to play outside normally. If she has a problem with that then i would just ignore the issue after that.

I wouldn't go in all guns blazing though like some people have suggested. Yes she is being unreasonable and she is in the wrong but why make a rod for your own back?
 
She can't expect to work at home (in a residential street) and not be disturbed. People have their own lives to live. If she needs silence then she needs to be in an office like most other people or have sufficient sound insulation in her home.
 
Muban said:
I wouldn't go out of my way to give her my response. I would carry on as normal. If she mentioned it again I would politely tell her that it is not reasonable request but that I would ensure that my children didn't make any excessive noise, but I would continue to allow them to play outside normally. If she has a problem with that then i would just ignore the issue after that.

I wouldn't go in all guns blazing though like some people have suggested. Yes she is being unreasonable and she is in the wrong but why make a rod for your own back?
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sensible post :(, he's right.
 
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