Reasonable request or out of order?

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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I would suggest doing this, although if she brought it up again, I'm not sure if I'd be able to stay composed long enough for her to leave.

Burnsy
 
Totally out of order! If you were making a lot of noise during the evening/early morning then that might be cause to complain but kids playing during the day? No chance.

I doubt there's much you can do about it though, she's just one of those people.
 
I would just carry on doing what your doing and tell your daughter to ignore her and if she still plays up just start making crazy demands back i.e. i would prefer it if you didn't have your central heating on in the winter as it effects my cats aura or whatever, and also ring your council now and get them to put somethign on file that she is a nutter so if she turns nasty they wont automatically take the side of a little old lady.
 
You could also ask your kid to play elsewhere (not near her house) some of the ideas posted here are pretty crazy. But then again, it sounds like she is crazy!
rover416i said:
Where do you live? I personally vote anyone who lives within 20 miles of the OP drives past beeping their horn and playing VERY loud music. Maybe with hand actions too?

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I also agree on this for the lulz
 
Invite lots of your kid's friends round and give them some noisy instruments such as kazoos. Encourage them to "make music".
 
Slinwagh said:
Our neighbour works from home, as do me and my wife I hasten to add. Now as some of you are aware it is the school holidays, bear this bit in mind.

We don not get on with our neighbour, not our choice but that is the way it is. A couple of weeks ago she complained about noise, we were having new bathroom floors and the fitter cut the tiles outside on his machine, she suggested in future that we run by her any DIY and the like we were having done, why I am not sure but she did. The thing that irks me about this is that fact that about a month before she had exactly the same type of work carried out with the fitter she employed cutting his tiles outside on a machine it did not bother us in the slightest.

Today she has asked if we can keep out daughter in the house during the day, 9am until 5pm if possible. Being fair she has not singled us out she has also asked another neighbour who has a boy the same age as our daughter the same thing.

To be honest we are a bit taken aback by this and think it is a little unreasonable, they are not overly noisy children, they are just children playing.

So, is it a resonable request or is it over the top?
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she's a tool and a hypocrytical tool at that. kids play and make noise, It's unreasonable to expect them not to and tbh if i was faced with a request of keeping the kids in the house id tell her where to go, politely of course.
 
Well I've posted here before about the issues I've been having with my neighbour over noise and even with the current low point in relations I would not think to make such a request about her kids. You expect to have normal "children playing" noise during the day during school holidays.

(I did have an issue with a bunch of the other local kids from my road last night who were playing a game involving a lot of running around and shouting all evening but that was more due to them trampling through everyones front gardens and damaging bushes instead of the noise they were making).
 
markyp23 said:
Where do you live OP?
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