Footballs in the garden

[OldBlueLady]

Every night when I get home from work, there is at least one, usually two footballs in our garden that have come over from the kids next door (aged 10 and 7), and I mean EVERY night.

I always throw them back, but I got to realising, that the kids never say sorry or thank you.

When my kids were little, I used to make them go and knock and apologise and ask for their ball back....same as I was made to.

Just wondered what people think the right etiquette is for this these days?

Neighbours are a nice, young family, fitness fanatics with two very active boys so I totally get their obsession with playing ball in what is quite a small back garden. I have had words when they've played out the front across our adjoining front lawns, when the ball has hit the taxi, asking them to be careful, but these keep knocking my poor SUFC gnomes for six!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Just wondered what people think the right etiquette is for this these days?

Join in.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Join in.

I admire your rather optimistic faith in me YB, but as I approach my 60th, with one dodgy knee and the other leg still in recovery from being broken, I fear I shall have to pass. Besides my sport at school was always netball!

 

[KevinJH]

I'm 'blessed' with four gardens being attached to ours, each with youngsters kicking a ball about. If one comes over and I see where it's come from I'd chuck it back. If I don't they have two weeks to pop round and ask for it back - after that it goes in the recycling. If they can't be bothered to pop round I'm not wasting my time asking where it came from; manners and common courtesy costs nothing.

V. Meldrew, out.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Run out there and burst them with one of your knitting needles as soon as they come over the fence

They will soon stop.

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

Roll them in faeces. Any sort will do, a mixture is best.

Not proposing you then kick them back, that would be strange.

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

Keep them and give them names and characters, then introduce them all to the neighbours when the kids ask for them back.

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

Have a freedom day football family party!

 

[Amwell Blue]

Give them back with grace. You never know you might singing their name if a few years.

Their accuracy tends to suggest they could be a striker for us.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Isn't there a park somewhere near you guys Kay?

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

How do they get them back, if your away on holiday?. Are they able to climb over your fence/wall?.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Every night when I get home from work, there is at least one, usually two footballs in our garden that have come over from the kids next door (aged 10 and 7), and I mean EVERY night.

I always throw them back, but I got to realising, that the kids never say sorry or thank you.

When my kids were little, I used to make them go and knock and apologise and ask for their ball back....same as I was made to.

Just wondered what people think the right etiquette is for this these days?

Neighbours are a nice, young family, fitness fanatics with two very active boys so I totally get their obsession with playing ball in what is quite a small back garden. I have had words when they've played out the front across our adjoining front lawns, when the ball has hit the taxi, asking them to be careful, but these keep knocking my poor SUFC gnomes for six!

You'll get a big bar of Dairy Milk thrown over sooner or later if the TV is to be believed

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

Hold on...if their shooting is so bad that they keep kicking them into your garden, are you sure last season's strikers at SUFC haven't moved in next door ? Seems very coincidental !

 

[OldBlueLady]

You'll get a big bar of Dairy Milk thrown over sooner or later if the TV is to be believed

That'd be nice!

 

[GBJ]

I admire your rather optimistic faith in me YB, but as I approach my 60th, with one dodgy knee and the other leg still in recovery from being broken, I fear I shall have to pass. Besides my sport at school was always netball!

Careful, if the club are reading this thread you may end up being offered a lucrative three-year contract.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Careful, if the club are reading this thread you may end up being offered a lucrative three-year contract.

Definitely fits Browns ideal of older players ?

 

[Swiss Tony]

Isn't there a park somewhere near you guys Kay?

Yes it's called the drugs distribution centre unfortunately.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Isn't there a park somewhere near you guys Kay?

We're not too far from Thundersley Common, but they'd probably need to hop in the car rather than walk it.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

We're not too far from Thundersley Common, but they'd probably need to hop in the car rather than walk it.

That's probably why you're getting aggro.Always seem to remember being near enough to a park to walk it as kid.Makes a huge difference.

 

[The Big Dady]

Was one of them called "Wilson"?