The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

ivyleaf

Oh Sue So sorry you're poorly . Sending gentle ((((HUGS)))) and get-well wishes xx

GDB2222

Personally, I don’t find other people’s kids annoying. I enjoy the sight and sound of them enjoying themselves.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

I've no idea how to deal with that type.

There used to be a couple of chaps who pondered this problem, Mr Smith and Mr Wesson I believe.

We live in a world of "I'll do what I like and you can't stop me" ... then they start banging on about "rights"... oh the irony.


One of the problems is that people who don't know, make it up and think that's then right.

Watching a TV programme randomly the other day, about the police - they pulled a woman over because she was wandering all over the road in her car. As they stopped her they thought they could see a spliff being smoked....

The woman couldn't see a problem that she was driving her 14 year old daughter to school, the daughter was smoking a spliff, "they all smoke it at her age", the mother didn't have a license and the car wasn't insured. She was annoyed at being stopped, as if she'd just been told off for dropping a fag end! In her eyes people should be grateful she was driving her daughter to school, else she'd have not gone that day.

She was all levels of wrong!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

There used to be a couple of chaps who pondered this problem, Mr Smith and Mr Wesson I believe.

We live in a world of "I'll do what I like and you can't stop me" ... then they start banging on about "rights"... oh the irony.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Personally, I don’t find other people’s kids annoying. I enjoy the sight and sound of them enjoying themselves.

Let's separate this nonsense. Maybe you've never had to be annoyed by kids doing stuff they shouldn't be doing, where they shouldn't be doing it, to your annoyance. Maybe you live in an area where there's more room between houses, where they're not "loitering/being a nuisance".

There's a world of difference between, say, 3 children playing in their garden with their friends and being joyous -and- 8 children with bikes/balls/scooters playing in a very confined area, round your parked car for 2-4 hours, squabbling, screaming and kicking the football over neighbours' cars and fences, trampling their open plan gardens down, running through their gardens/leaning on their living room windowsills ...before dumping an assortment of dolls, bikes, scooters, skateboards randomly in the way of people arriving and trying to park. All in a space where there is no access for playing and no space/facilities.

I reverse up against a wall - and in the early days (before I went out and said "Oi, NO!"), I caught one standing in front of my bonnet, facing my car, repeatedly throwing a football against that wall right over my car. That is my land, there is no right to stand/play there - and it was a stupid decision to have made. I am grateful I have the ownership though and so the right to say "Oi, no. Not allowed" and attempt to petrify them.

There is one .... and there is the other.

Until you've lived close to irritating behaviours, you have no idea how debilitating it can be.

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

Oh Sue! ((((((((((((((Sue))))))))))))))) (while wearing sterile suit and face mask, plus I've had the jab!)

I wish I were nearer to you. It's miserable being ill on your own. besides which, you'll get better more quickly if you don't have to keep getting out of bed to make hot drinks etc.

Ignore the front door bell.
I know you can't ignore the phone in case it's Joe, but if you have caller display and it isn't Joe, ignore it.

And don't just 'get on with things'. You must stay in bed and rest.
Nurse Pyxis, she say so!

It was scary rather than miserable on Sunday night, just couldn't catch my breath, was in pain and feeling absolutely eugh. James was so worried when he was trying to talk to me that he insisted I made an appointment, even so, I was still in two minds when I woke up yesterday morning as I didn't want to waste their time if it was something not so important.

Now the boys have all gone, I can just potter about until work on Saturday, so plenty of rest is possible apart from when I have to get out and get essentials.

SingleSue

GDB2222 wrote: »

Personally, I don’t find other people’s kids annoying. I enjoy the sight and sound of them enjoying themselves.

I find them very annoying in restaurants but love to hear joyful playing in their back gardens.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Good start to the soon to be winter...I have pneumonia which has also reignited my what was dormant asthma. I'm now rattling with antibiotics and steroids and the proud owner of inhalers again.

Oh Sue! So sorry to hear that. Hope you are better soon.
Sending hugs (but can't do my favourite hug smiley on my phone)

PasturesNew wrote: »

Watching a TV programme randomly the other day, about the police - they pulled a woman over because she was wandering all over the road in her car. As they stopped her they thought they could see a spliff being smoked....

The woman couldn't see a problem that she was driving her 14 year old daughter to school, the daughter was smoking a spliff, "they all smoke it at her age", the mother didn't have a license and the car wasn't insured. She was annoyed at being stopped, as if she'd just been told off for dropping a fag end! In her eyes people should be grateful she was driving her daughter to school, else she'd have not gone that day.

She was all levels of wrong!

DD likes those police programmes. I watch them with her sometimes. There's a whole section of society who don't see any point in such minutiae as licences, insurance, MOTs etc. The law changed a few years ago so the police can now confiscate the car in such cases.

In other news, the removals men are dismantling a couple of massive Victorian bookcases to be able to fit the bits through the doorways.

GDB2222

Let's separate this nonsense. Maybe you've never had to be annoyed by kids doing stuff they shouldn't be doing, where they shouldn't be doing it, to your annoyance. Maybe you live in an area where there's more room between houses, where they're not "loitering/being a nuisance".

It happens all the time, but I simply don't find it annoying. I might worry that they could damage something or get hurt, but the mere fact of them being in the wrong place/doing something childlike doesn't annoy me.

Obviously, I could be in a minority of one with this. I find all sorts of things annoying, but funnily enough not children!

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

I find them very annoying in restaurants but love to hear joyful playing in their back gardens.

In restaurants, my initial irritation is usually swiftly replaced by a sense of relief that mine are now too old to need to be made to behave in public places.