Failure to Stop: Red Toyota Corolla S

You will agree though that most of the kids on Hunters Green DO play in the street. Not only is it very unsafe (half the time parents are not out there with them. I was home on maternity leave and witnessed it daily) but also very annoying, especially when they're screaming directly in front of my infant's bedroom I have no problem with kids being kids, obviously or I wouldn't have had any. But there's a place for that, and it's called the playgrounds and parks all over the place in the Broadlands, not in front of everybody's houses. (On the sidewalks OR in the street)

 

Sure they do, but isn't that why we choose to live in suburbia? Now not only are the kids playing in the street, but in front of houses on the sidewalk, how could that happen?? The shock of it all. WE LIVE IN TOWNHOUSES! Not single family homes with big yards.

You want to drag your child to a park everytime they want to play outside?

 

Oh, and how about this: how about I stand outside your window when you're trying to sleep, had about 2 hours sleep in 2 days, and are completely sleep deprived with a newborn, and scream at the top of my lungs, play in your driveway and run through your yard?? Would that be ok, since we live in townhouses?? You wouldn't mind, would ya?

 

I can't believe you expect kids not to play outside during you infant's nap. How utterly self involved. The world doesn't revolve around you.

 

and it shouldn't revolve through MY yard and MY flower beds. play in your own yard, not mine. And since we're b//complaining, why don't parents teach children not to scream? I don't mean the normal shouts of playing, I mean the screams that cause me to run to the door to see who's dying/being abducted. Some kid could get seriously hurt and no one would go help because we've quit checking _every time_ we hear a blood curdling scream.

 

unbelievable

 

How about everybody in the area checks to see how much sleep you got during the night before we go outside? I understand completely if you're sleep deprived and agitated because a newborn isn't sleeping, most people with kids have been there. But complaining about something your child will be doing in a few years isn't a good way to deal with it. Make sure you remember that when your child is 2 or 3 and wants to go out and play in the neighborhood...

 

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Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

Red Toyota with a rear trunk spolier, girl inside with brown hair? Just saw her blow down Claiborne in front of the school doing about 80.

John

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Unbelievable are the scrooges in this neighborhood.

lyo

 

So I'm a scrooge for wanting the neighbors kids not to kill all my plants. Or is it for wanting to teach them that there are different types of screaming and one type is reserved for real emergencies?

 

I'm finding it hard to believe kids on this street are getting anywhere close to your plants.

And have you ever tried to tell an excited toddler the difference between types of screams? I'd love to hear your technique.

 

[Edited by Moderator]

 

I'll show you the foot prints (and it was older than a toddler, they were playing football across MY lawn, not their own).
I will agree that it's hard with the toddlers, but if you don't start sometime, they're 8 and 9 and older and still screaming the "I'm in serious trouble" type of scream just for fun. I sugest we start teaching the "boy who cried wolf" story a little more.

 

Wow, after reading eight pages of you all bashing each other and completely going off topic (what happened to the girl in the Red toyota?), I'm starting to think at least she's being honest spewing profanities out of a car window directly at your faces instead of hiding behind a homeowners' faceless forum. She probably sleeps better at night...albeit maybe in a jail cell one day...but nonetheless...[xx(]

 

How were we "bashing" each other? And glad to see you aren't hiding behind a faceless homeowners' faceless forum )

 

If I were a visitor from another country poking through these various topics and posts, I would come to the inescapable conclusion that the Broadlands is filled with a bunch of whining, complaining, unhappy, bitter people.

With neighbors like these, who needs enemies, eh?!

 

OK, hold up here. Maybe I should correct myself for the record. I'm not crazy about them playing in the street, mostly for safety reasons. But what I really was trying to get at is I'm definitely not crazy about a group of 7 or 8 kids in my driveway complete with their bikes and other toys, yelling. If that makes me completely self absorbed, then I guess I am.

We had a VERY trying time when my son was newborn. He had a couple of different medical problems and hardly slept at all. So when he did, I didn't want to take the chance of something waking him. Sorry if it ticked me off if there were a gaggle of kids in my driveway. Anyway, it's not really as much of an issue now, he sleeps through a lot.

(edited this- Scrooge was feeling extra grouchy this morning so it came off pretty harsh. hehe)

 

Thank you. That was the point I was trying to make (not in so many words until just now)