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So school next door doesn't start until 8:25. Kids aren't supposed to be on the playground until 8:15. Of course, they start coming at 8 or earlier. Today was my husband's day off for his birthday, and we were awoken at 7:40 by kids screaming on the playground. At 7:45, when the dogs were out, they started teasing the dogs, so they started barking, and then a dad started yelling "get away from there!" And then more screaming.

And then they're all on scooters, so they're scooting around, literally screaming at the tops of their lungs. Before 8 a.m.

I am so mad right now. What the hell? Now I can't let my dogs out when we wake up, either? I am including this in the letter that I haven't sent yet.

I swear I'll send it. I'm getting mad enough now.

Seriously, who needs to be at school 45 minutes early, and why are they allowed to be screaming at the tops of their lungs? I bet these are the same people complaining about lawn mowers at 8 a.m. on Saturday mornings.

I wonder how these families would feel if you set off fireworks in their front yards at 7:30 one Saturday morning?

I hope your husband has a happy birthday despite the early awakening though!

Cindy

Kids get up so freakin early, and they are like AWAKE. But that shouldn't be your burden, their parents should be suffering with them in the early morning hours. That would really annoy me too. I freak out when anyone interrupts my sleep. That was a true problem when I was living in an apartment, and had annoying neighbors that would make noise all night long. I would probably tell the school about it, too. And if they want to play, fine, but why must they scream?

Fireworks -- don't get me going on those [censored] hats who set off fireworks on July 4th between midnight and 2 am! Ggrrrrr....

Earplugs are one of my best friends!

And THEN we were walking to get a coffee and as we were leaving the house someone had to go and drop her kid off in front of our driveway. That makes me SO mad because the drop off zone is 10 yards away. USE IT!

So we were walking downtown for the coffee and were admiring a house. Guess who pulls in? The woman who had been blocking the driveway! We were less than 2 blocks from the school.

I just DON'T understand these people!!!!! Your child cannot walk 2 blocks? The time it took us to walk to her house was the amount of time it took her to drive back to her house because traffic around the school is so bad. Why couldn't she have her kids walk, or walk them herself?

GRRRRRR!!!!!

My husband says that if it doesn't affect me, it shouldn't aggravate me. If it was just that, yeah, it's not a big deal. But it's the fact that we have all these signs up, we have no parking signs, and we're getting bothered by all these other parents that one little thing like that just adds to the mess.

I suppose that if the parents insist on dropping their pweshus bibbies at achool, they have to do it by 7.30 or they'll be late for work. I'm with you - I don't get why the kids can't walk if it's only a few blocks. It's good for them, for God's sake!! "Oh, but some nasty child molester might come along and snatch them off the street!" Yeah right. Get a grip.

Question though - why would a dedicated CF person buy a house next to a school?? Isn't that just asking for aggro??

inglebert I understand you bout the women & the drop off but i don't understand the complaint when you live next door to a school...isin't that the same as moving next door to a waste disposal and then complaining about the smell?

That being said 7:40 is way to early for any child to be dropped off at school...for safety reasons.

You'll drive a child to school two blocks but you'll leave them unsupervised in a school yard? Don't get it. Most teachers don't start supervising the yard till about 8:15-8:30.

I do think that you should write a letter to the school but don't write in in anger i think you'll get a more positive response. For all you know the school isint aware of kids being at the school 7:40.

I know here you were not allowed on school property till 1/2 hour before school began.

wow i'm really on a long-winded role tonight!

I came home tonight from running some errands to find two neighbor kids (boys) playing in my driveway. Not sure what was wrong with their driveways, but they decided to play in mine. They both live on my street, one on the corner (where they were playing was out of the line of sight of that house, so if the parents decided to check on their son they wouldn't be able to see him) and the other across the street. I hate being the "mean grown-up" but darn it, they don't need to be in my yard or my driveway, especially when I'm not around! Suppose they get hurt on my property, and the parents decide to hold me responsible? I rolled down my window and politely told them that they don't need to play in my driveway, they should go play in one of theirs. At least they didn't talk back, but gathered up their toys and went across the street, with minimal eye-rolling. I don't mind them dropping by to visit while I'm outside, but them being there when I'm not around just doesn't seem like a good idea.

I know my parents taught me not to play in other peoples' yards and driveways when I was a kid, it just wasn't done. Of course, these kids' parents are never outside with them, no supervision. They're both under age ten. Seems a little risky to me...

Cindy

I remember when I lived in Texas, when I first moved in there wasn't a fence in the backyard. Kids would walk through my yard, front and back all the time. I was a single Mom living with just my daughter and it made me very nervous to see people in my backyard. I felt my privacy was being invaded. AND I said so.

It was only a couple months and I got a fence around my backyard so that wasn't a problem anymore.

Even when people walk across my front yard, I get annoyed. AND again, I say something. One time I caught a kid riding a horse across my front yard, a yard I have an underground sprinkler system in, I told them to get off my yard unless they wanted to pay for repairs to my sprinkler system.