So nice to know there is someone out there that doesn’t use the “it’s so haaaaard to raise kids” excuse to be lazy! 
Two words: pungi stakes.
This is the type of problem that won’t go away, and can’t be fixed. You’re going to have to move. Be sure and check out your new place carefully for annoying people, although I’m certain you’ll find some within a year of moving in.
Miller, don’t think that has not crossed my mind… really. In any case, I just have to finish Grad School and then I can move away for ever and ever… ahhhh, dreams.
Hey! We get at least a few weeks every year between the snow and the mosquitoes!
[sub]Of course, then, the unwary get sucked down into the mud and never seen again, but hey, at least it isn’t snow or mosquitoes![/sub]
Before complaining to the condo board, you might want to check if you are allowed to be doing this on common areas. Unfortunately, it seems like common areas in some places are automatically lowest common denominator areas.
Their solution may well be to tell you to stop growing things.
Wow! You really ARE mean!
I’m sure it was meant in the best possible way – after sedation, for instance.
Plus it’s not like I do this on a daily basis or anything.
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I’m a dude. Unfortunately my “garden” is a little square of dirt that is under my stairs. …
Its just frustrating because its not in the middle of a lawn or anything, so there really is NO reason beyond being pests for the kids to go under my stair area.
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But it’s a common area, which means it isn’t your personal property, right? So they have the right to be there. As for a reason to be there, it makes a good fort, or hiding place, or spot where adults have a hard time walking, or different terrain than their own front yard. Lots of reasons why they would want to be there. Just because they aren’t good reasons to you doesn’t make them valid reasons to them. It’s not like the only things kids do is play baseball/football/tackle-each-other-for-no-reason.
Well, provided that you stick to decorative and not edible plants, coyote lure is a good solution.
Though coyote lure is best, we’ve subbed elk piss for stinky revenge and it works well too.
Also, mouse traps - no permanent damage to the heathens but it’ll hurt the little bastards. You can justify the stink and the traps by saying that you want to keep the rodents out of your garden area.
No harm in trying to talk to them again but don’t bribe the little punks. We shouldn’t reward destructive behavior.
Good luck, crappy neighbors suck.
Feed them to a woodchuck.
Mouse traps!? The old wood and spring ones that can break a kid’s finger? Are you out of your fucking mind?
Let me get this straight, 'kay? Some children—apparently just doing what children do—stomp on this dickhead’s flowers (planted in a common area of a condo development, no less), and the assembled round table of idiots here suggest poisonous plants, pellet guns, legal action and mouse traps. Against children.
What the fuck is wrong with you people, anyway?
Hey Jettboy, why don’t you take a chill pill. I only opened this because I was frustrated by some kids misbehaving after polite conversations with their mother went unheeded. Unless you live in the middle of the woods all by yourself I am sure you have had annoying neighbors that you have had less than saintly thoughts about. If you have not you must be posting via the wifi they have installed inside the pearly gates. The common area I speak of is a little patch of dirt under my stairs that is DESIGNATED as a resident landscaping section. If the kids would like to play in such an area they have one that is all their own.
As for the dickhead comment, get the fuck outta my thread you shittastic assgoblin. You must have been yelled at for stomping on someones flowers when you were a kid. Get over yourself.
Don’t forget the ovens.
We don’t like dickhead chiildren, or in my case, any other kind either.
Some people just don’t respect other peoples property or right to live in peace. When I lived in military housing in NJ (Ft. Dix) I had a decent sized yard. I also had a grueling work schedule (I was a recruiter then). Constantly kids in the neighborhood ran through my yard, screaming and hollerin’ and getting on my nerves when I was home.
All I wanted was peace and quiet. They were kids. So I didn’t go nuts. But then one of my rare saturdays off it went too far. Most of these kids congregated at a house three doors down from me. I was sitting in my backyard, slowly grilling ac steak, having a brewski, listening to my personal collection of Peter Gabreil/ Kate Bush cuts and typing on my laptop. The kids and the mother from the house down the street ran through my yard constantly playing. Loudly. And not far away from me either. I had kids running around my lawn furniture with this woman making a helluva din.
What? Was I invisible? Could they not see I was sitting there enjoying my quiet time. (I don’t blare my music so don’t think I was blasting it). I could not keep it in, so I stood up and asked this woman to keep the kids and herself out of my yard. They had to cross THREE yards just to get to mine, and there was a playground right down the street. She took the kids and left, but she gave me a lookj like I was an ogre.
Like the OP I have a right to be in my living space without interruption from other peoples kids. It doesn’t matter if I like kids or not. I wouldn’t hurt any of those kids, but I understand how the OP and other people post jokes about it. Its a release. Sometimes I feel like I want to hurt my boss, but I don’t mean it literally.
I think the OP shpould talk to the parents again…and ,make it clear that this is not something they should blow off.
Go tiger!
What the fuck is wrong with us is every goddamned child out there is a speshul snowflake these days and some of us are fucking sick of it. Today, as I sat at my office table, which faces my backyard, I hear a weird noise on the roof, then a large red object lands in the yard. Turns out it was a ball, the 32,947,235th ball that has landed in my backyard, my seven foot fenced backyard. That my dogs then proceed to try to eat. That the crazy lady next door used to bitch at me to give back until I told her that CPS was going to visit unless she backed the hell off. Teach your kids to keep their crap out of my yard!
And that doesn’t even touch on the hundreds of dollars of damage that “children just being children” have done to the gardens in my front yard. They have their own goddamned yards, why do they have to stomp thru mine?
Newsflash - children are not speshul, they are pre-humans that need training. Keep them the hell off my lawn!
Yeah! Fuck him for thinking he (she?) could plant flowers in a condo development. The NERVE! What next? Is the OP going to have the effrontery to rake the leaves that fall in the communal areas?