Can We Have Our Ball Back?

[bronchitikat]

Heigh ho!  The long summer evenings are here and the children are full of energy even after a busy day at school.  So some parents let them play out on the street, which means that some of them tend to congregate at 'our' corner.  It's probably the furthest they're allowed to go

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[oxfordia]

This year, they are releasing an Angry Bird movie. I'm not at all in favour of it, but we've seen the trailer when we went to watch other things. And there is that shorts sequence from 33 sec that makes me think of you every time.

I honestly don't understand why kids kick/throw balls against a wall, especially when there are several of them (How about kicking/throwing the ball at each other, then?) and they always seem to do it in the worst possible place (against the side of the corner shop, around the access ramp to another shop, etc.) when they are next to open spaces, fields, and well, more often that not, football pitches!). I received one of those balls in my face once whilst using the access ramp. They apologised but why didn't they go to a more appropriate place to begin with?

[bronchitikat]

What I'm really looking forward to (Not) is the next couple of weeks.

Wimbledon sometimes brings out those with smaller balls and tennis racquets! Though we've not been bothered by them in recent years.

Last night the older lad came. I returned his ball, asked if he knew the Rules, he nodded and all was quiet for the rest of the evening. We'll see about today.

I blame Euro 2016!

[annelaure]

Ah, just keep the ball until the grandmother shows up. Or pick up the id of one of the kids and bring the ball to the parents....

[bronchitikat]

Getting Grandma was but a threat, and a pretty feeble one at that. I wouldn't have minded if he had fetched his Gran, and said so - which is probably why he didn't.

As for IDs. They ain't telling, though one was daft enough to turn up still wearing his named school shirt. So I know where he goes to school.

[annelaure]

Ah kids... thinking they know everything....
Did you have any other problem since?