Fed up of kids in my building
Hello Everyone,
I live in an apartment building on the first floor, and the balcony of my flat faces the badminton court. The kids play cricket there and keep on hitting the ball towards my balcony and then coming to ask for it. I didn’t have much problem with it at first but then I started to get annoyed because it was too frequent and I like to be alone and not be bothered by strangers as the kids would constantly shout out to me to give back their cricket balls. There have been a few instances where the water has risen above the head.
One day, I usually sleep till a bit late so by then the kids would start playing and as usual they hit the ball into my balcony and then they come to my flat and ring the bell like 10-15 times continuously as if I’m their servant and should be available for them at anytime and like many people if a stranger disrupts my sleep, I get really pissed off so I got up and told them off that I won’t give back the ball now. But apparently, my ex-flatmate gave it to them when I went back to my room.
A few weeks later, I started to live alone and then I used to deny them to give back their cricket balls or I used to ignore the kids when they would shout out to me but my maid used to give them back to the kids once in a while if they would spot her at my flat. Then on a random Sunday, in the afternoon, the kids came to my flat and rung the bell but I just ignored them and didn’t even open the door because I could see them from the magic eye (peephole) then maybe like 30 mins or so later, my food delivery came and he calls me and says that “I see the door is bolted so should I keep the food with the watchman” and I was like “dude I’m in the house, what are you talking about” and then I tried to open my door but it didn’t open and I had to ask him to open it.
I tried to figure out which kid did it and to try to talk to their parents about it but it was of no use, I did talk to a parent of one of the kids.Just a while ago, around midnight, another kid comes up rings the bell twice at freaking midnight and asks for her shuttle as she was playing badminton and as soon as I opened the door she was like “There would be a shuttle in your balcony”. Like what in the actual fuck? Who thinks it’s okay to go to someone’s home at midnight and order them. I told them off a bit but after I gave them back their shuttle, they didn’t even play anymore like what was the point in coming to me at midnight, they could’ve came in the morning.
I’ve a few points or arguments, if you will, regarding this whole matter and I would like some advice or suggestions on what to do.
First concern is that these kids act like entitled assholes but don’t have any means to act like it.
Second being that the parents of these kids don’t give a fuck about what their kids are doing outside of their homes and how they’re disturbing other people. Like I don’t think they discipline them at all otherwise the kids wouldn’t be these little pieces of shit.
Third being in which scenario is locking someone a acceptable thing to do, luckily I didn’t need to go out but you get it what would be the case if it was someone with claustrophobia and anxiety issues.
Also, I know that many people would be like “they’re kids and these things will happen”, I totally agree with you for the 1st instance only but bolting my door and showing up at my door at midnight is not acceptable to me under any circumstance. Because if they’re doing these kinds of things and think that there’s nothing wrong then god knows what they’ll do once they are teenagers and take out their parent’s car and hit someone (underage kids hitting people that results in death has happened in my city but they were rich kids so no harsh sentences, but the people in my building aren’t that rich that they can get away with it). Also, a kid doesn’t shit about right or wrong because if the defence is that they are kids and let it go then I’ll get a kid to hurt their kids and tell them they are kids, these things happen, would that be okay?
What I’ve thought to do is to collect the cricket balls now and not give them back unless I get that kid’s parents who bolted my door from outside to apologise sincerely.
Thank you to those who read this post and please let me know your thoughts or suggestions on what to do next.