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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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Being forced to watch manic behaviour as the screeching kids fling themselves about screaming and shouting , their silly heads and shoulders and flailing arms appear every second or two..
Parents these days are lazy, they won't take the kids anywhere, and won't tell them to be quiet, either.
One house nearby had one in the front garden, an utter eyesore..why not put it in the back garden?
But no, the parent/s are too selfish for that, so ruin the look of otherwise pretty front gardens.
They are a curse.
Have you forgot what it was to be a child??? Talk about the Fun Police.
I would rather see small children playing happily in this world, than roaming the streets. Parents should be commended for buying a worthwhile fun present for their children, rather than being put down for it.
On the whole, children and their parents were not selfish, thoughtless and antisocial as may of them are now.
And then there's TRAMPOLINES. lifes a real bummer these days.
GeminiJ
They have indoor reboundersHomeowners should have insurance on outdoor trampolines and get permission from town board to erect one because of noise from over excited kids.