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

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

Watch out that there's nothing in the boxes that could hurt anyone if they sat on it as if it was a bed.
Working on the principle that if anything can go wrong then it probably will!

If the rug's covering the top, it should be ok, but yes, perhaps best not to have your antique glass collection in it, or your collection of barbed wire samples.




Titter ye not......... somewhere in the world, I believe there is a barbed wire museum.

PasturesNew

Jackmydad wrote: »

Watch out that there's nothing in the boxes that could hurt anyone if they sat on it as if it was a bed.
Working on the principle that if anything can go wrong then it probably will!

This can be the problem with viewers, they can act randomly and bizarrely - whoever'd think to sit on a bed in a house they were viewing? That's just very peculiar.

One "trouble" I have, too, is if a viewer were to bring any child/ren round with them... my house is not and has never been "child friendly"... what if, say, an unsupervised child is allowed to stroll and starts playing with the bleach bottles, or knives, or ... well, I don't know.

I know somebody who almost had to forcibly remove a viewer as their sticky child was "groping" her very very expensive "2' high faux sheep" which was sitting on the living room wall, alongside a collection of other items to be admired and not touched.... the child was about to attempt to mount it and sit on it! I think she screamed "IT'S NOT A TOY!!!!", it was an artpiece, intended for floor standing.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

This can be the problem with viewers, they can act randomly and bizarrely - whoever'd think to sit on a bed in a house they were viewing? That's just very peculiar.

One "trouble" I have, too, is if a viewer were to bring any child/ren round with them... my house is not and has never been "child friendly"... what if, say, an unsupervised child is allowed to stroll and starts playing with the bleach bottles, or knives, or ... well, I don't know.

That's then down to the parents, Pastures.

Short of not keeping a primed man-trap on the living-room floor, you wouldn't be expected to child-proof your house on the off-chance that a stupid parent wouldn't be keeping an eye on them.

Pyxis

Going back to the pretend bed, three or four very neat piles of very neatly folded clothes on the top of the 'bed', as if they'd just been ironed, would deter anyone from sitting on it.

Providing they were very neat, they wouldn't detract from the overall tidiness of the room.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Going back to the pretend bed, three or four very neat piles of very neatly folded clothes on the top of the 'bed', as if they'd just been ironed, would deter anyone from sitting on it.

Providing they were very neat, they wouldn't detract from the overall tidiness of the room.

My clothes are old and ... well, a bit shabby - and I don't own an iron

The main problem with creating a 2nd bed there is that the boxes piled up are of differing sizes/shapes .... and if I gathered together similar ones as the base then I'd have all the "leftovers" which would need a "corner to be hidden in" ... and, then, I'd need to buy a duvet and more pillows to make it up.

So, on reflection, unless a 2nd bed arrangement using what I've got just "falls into my lap" .... I'll not pursue it.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Titter ye not......... somewhere in the world, I believe there is a barbed wire museum.

Me not tittering, you believe partially correctly - a quick Google reveals that there is not just one but several, including;

https://www.rushcounty.org/BarbedWireMuseum/
One section of https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/explore/barbed-wire/
and another in Texas, who's domain has expired so it may or may not actually still exist.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Short of not keeping a primed man-trap on the living-room floor,

Definitely not, PNs car park would be a far better location for such a device - or, better still, several of them :rotfl:

PasturesNew

It's raining, just a little bit. Hurrah - although not guaranteed to dissuade them .... it certainly helps. Just checked... no playing, but the household car's present, which means it could occur.

I still cannot fathom how any "responsible adult" would ever allow children to play with balls near to parked cars and to trample on people's gardens. Do they have such low respect for themselves and their own belongings that they think nobody else cares either?

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I still cannot fathom how any "responsible adult" would ever allow children to play with balls near to parked cars and to trample on people's gardens.

Nail, head, hit :rotfl:

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's raining, just a little bit. Hurrah - although not guaranteed to dissuade them .... it certainly helps. Just checked... no playing, but the household car's present, which means it could occur.

I still cannot fathom how any "responsible adult" would ever allow children to play with balls near to parked cars and to trample on people's gardens. Do they have such low respect for themselves and their own belongings that they think nobody else cares either?

You have already said that the parents presumably haven't seen the deeds, and may believe, as the children do, that the open garden spaces are a shared communal space. The parents also probably think that footballs have smooth surfaces and so don't make scratches, and are extremely unlikely to break toughened car window glass, so can't imagine why anybody would consider it to be a problem. They are most likely unaware of the more blatantly dangerous activities such as interfering with passing traffic.