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Originally Posted by monkeyman
There might be some red flags there. The other kids parents thought his kid was a bad influence, the neighbours seem to have issues with his kid, and the "but my kid said..." seems to be the default response.
And how long does it take to grab a ball in someone else's driveway where they have enough time to come out and grab it?
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My first reaction to this is to respond with something incredibly rude and dismissive that might rhyme with "No luck yourself."
Frankly, you don't know me. You don't know my kids. You don't have the first clue about my "default response." You also don't have a clear layout of my property, my driveway, the location of the basketball hoop at the time of the incident, the distance, size and construction of my neighbour's driveway.
Comments about fence etiquette is certainly relevant, and I tend to agree with most: Jumping the fence is unacceptable, and a discussion with neighbours about their own expectations is the right approach. These are conversations that I don't believe I had ever had with any of my kids in the past. But then again, there was never a fence between my and the neighbour's yard for the first 13-years we have lived here. The previous neighbours weren't at all inconvenienced by the occasional ball on their property—the fence is new within the past few months.
But yeah, everyone knows the rules now. We moved the basketball to the other side of the driveway after the incident, and I installed a 6' fence between the driveways in an effort to ensure that the ball stays on our property.