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Perhaps it's just me getting old, but what's with this new craze of having a kids trampoline in your back garden?
We will live in pleasant, suburban area where detached four bedroom houses and big(ish) gardens are the norm as a result we fully expect there to be kids knocking around and a modicum of noise emanating from said kids.
Bouncing up and down peering over the fence...
We came home the other day having done a hard day's graft at the office, looking forward enjoy one of those rare summer evenings and to a nice relaxing alfresco dinner, to find a rather large construction protruding over the fence between our house and our next door neighbours. Fine, says me until two rather large and extremely noisy children were bouncing up and down peering over the fence watching me as I prepared our dinner in the kitchen.
Kids will be kids trampoline or not, I said to myself; despite feeling somewhat uncomfortable and continued to ignore the raucous laughter and gawking, half wishing I was their age again!! That was until we sat down for our nice alfresco dinner, during which the kids continued to jump higher and higher and higher whilst looking over at us, laughing loudly, pointing at us and commenting to us on what we were eating in VERY loud voices. This needless to say left us feeling discomfited enough for us to waste the rare summer evening and go indoors to finish our dinner.
What I want to know is:-
Where has this craze come from all of a sudden?
Why oh why do parents insist on putting up these trampoline right next to their neighbours fence or a road?
Does anyone else feel that trampolines are an intrusion of privacy or is it just me? and...
What should I do?
By: Lottie
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The problem isn't the trampoline itself, it is the fact that the parents are too scared to let their children walk down the road to the playpark so instead they take it upon themselves to fill their garden with the toys and the subsequent noise, which makes things worse for their neighbours.
With everything going on in the world right now your big concern is seeing a neighbours kids head over the fence when they're on their trampoline.
Just imagine this being your big worry in life lmao
that and hot tubs roll on winter
Just start planting flowers etc.. near the fence making sure you use horse manure for compost .
Kids Will either lose interest in the trampoline or move it away from your fence.
Also i find a bird table put some bread out the pigeons will soon mess the trampoline up.
Worked for me.
Trampolines are a great laugh you all need to chill out. Great fun in summer and excerise for my kids and their dads rowdy mates in a big house party lol! Go live in a library as a housing estate will never be quiet enough for you curtain twitchers hahaha
The issue isn't the kids themselves, it is the fact that their parents are scared little middle class mice who won't let them go outside their property boundary until they are 18.
The trampoline is only a symptom of a wider problem here. Idiot parents so scared that there's a paedo on every street corner that they fill their garden with bad quality play equipment. It must be a miserable, limited childhood.
backtothe90swiththisplease
In the 1990s a trampoline in a garden would have been a rarity, we used to go and play outside and come home when the street lights came on. We would go to the play park, go and explore the little woodlands and alleyways near the house and if we were every noisy we were walking around out and about so it wasn't impacting the neighbours adjoining our garden
I don't think we had any play equipment in the garden itself except for a poundland football and a cheap super soaker.