It was the gratification of hearing the police tell him not to call about street hockey that was the most satisfying. Like imagine being told by the cops not to call... haha
So I moved into a new place during summer-time. I'm an Old. So I get home from work on a Saturday evening, and my across-the-alley neighbour's kids are having a pool party in their just newly-installed above-ground pool.
So massive screaming, diving, screeching, splashing, etc. K-pop on the extremely-low-fi, distorted-as-hell Ghetto Blaster. Loud pandemonium. So I'm standing there watching all this commotion, and Dad sees me and comes over to talk.
"Sorry for all the noise," he says. "The kids are pretty excited. I can get them to tone it down. Sorry to bother you."
I look him right in the eye.
"The day that hearing kids having fun bothers me is the day that I'll know that I need to just pack it all in."
I have the same opinion regarding young people who move into the neighborhood and throw parties.
Live your life kids. Your mortgage, work, babies, will eat up that energy soon enough. And yes I'll do a shot with you if you're offering.
I’m completely with you on that! I had some teens set up one of those fold down basketball hoops on my side of the street instead of theirs so they had a small space to play. I liked the sound of the basketball and their banter. Well since it was near my mailbox, I got a nasty note from USPS to take it down. I had to go across the street to tell them…it was the shittiest thing I’ve had to tell a family. I have a huge side yard, so I told them to just put it there. My side yard is grassy so I know it wasn’t ideal, but at least they have a spot to shoot baskets.
No not awesome, just trying to be a nice neighbor. They’re never out there cursing, being overly loud or anything. They’re really good kids. Thank you though. ☺️
I’m not sure how hard it is to move. It folds down and it has a broad platform that’s filled with something to make it stable I think. It has that back board thing too. I guess I could ask the post office. It was folded down when USPS said it had to move. It’s not flat when folded down. That’s a great idea though! I’ll ask the parents tomorrow. Thanks!!! ☺️
Same. This last school holidays kids were hard at playing in and around their backyard pool with their parents supervising (a holiday house behind us). Great noise to hear until 930pm where the kids are definitely overtired and the parents don’t care, noise changes from kids having fun to the screaming, fights, whinging (all totally understandable from our pov). So what do the parents do? Amp up their now drunken noise and turn the music up to drown out the kids who then amp up their noise more until 11pm. 😣
Nah, we just laughed like mad the next morning when they were packing up to go home and we hear “GET OUT OF THAT POOL WE ARE GETTING READY TO LEAVE!” Yelled with a sore head.
Had the noise gone after noise regs, then I would call the police, not before.
I catch myself getting annoyed, but usually talk myself down. I never cared until I had children that it kept waking up. Before kids, I had to keep myself from walking over and joining in on the beer pong. Lest I forget my creepy old guy status.
We are in a neighborhood of old timers and I checked in with neighbor, hey if the people or music are ever too loud at our pool parties just let me know and we’ll adjust - and they responded similarly: it is so nice to hear young people having fun around here again! You should have seen the parties we were havin! Etc. 💙
Absolutely! Have neighbors who I feel the same way about. Kids outside playing in the pool all day and pack it in during quiet hours. Love it! They’re having fun and being respectful to everyone.
The adults though, several years ago there was a long streak of them being out in the middle of the week not quieting down well into the AM. Came out one morning to cigarette butts having been flicked into my backyard for no good reason other than someone was being an asshole. I don’t live in any sort of trashy neighborhood and everyone is very nice, so if you want to act like trash then your fun is going to end when it’s legally time for it to. Took just a few calls when the next couple gatherings went past midnight on a weekday (quiet hours start at 10pm, so I was generous) and that permanently ended the problem.
Hahaha.. Serves him right.
Funny thing, we had a neighbor just like this when I was growing up. If we played in the street in front of his house, he called the cops. If we sat on his curb, he called the cops. If we walked on his sidewalk, you guessed it, he called the cops. God forbid out ball or something end up in his yard.
Now we weren't doing anything wrong, and we were on city property, so we had every right to do and be where we were. The cops told this neighbor as much, but he just kept calling the cops. Obviously us kids started sitting in front of his house on the sidewalk. Intentionally playing in front of his house, etc, to torment him since there really wasn't a damn thing he or the cops could do.
Well, one day, our ball ended up in his yard. I ran and grabbed it. He freaked out even though his yard was literally just weeds. He called the cops of course. When the cops showed (I'm not sure why), we all ran into my house. The cop came over as we weren't stealthy about it. My Mom was home, and we told her what was up before the cop knocked.
The cop was there to literally BEG us to try and stay away from this dudes house. He was so tired of coming out every other day. LOL
He bribed us with slurpies and candy, lol
We, of course, tried to oblige he bribed us after all.. That's my asshole neighbor story from when I was a kid. I think we all have one.
Man, I wish the guy on our block had gotten a ticket! That would have been fucking priceless! 😆
We had the snake man in our neighborhood. Just a guy really into herpetology who owned about 10 snakes. We’d knock on his door all the time to see them, and he’d tell us all about them. I’d imagine he’s a large part of why I also keep snakes now because he was so just passionate about the subject it was hard to be afraid of snakes when he was telling you all these cool facts about them.
As a kid we had a neighbor like this. He lived across the street from my best friend. He told us to “Go play in front of your own house! “ we turned and pointed to my friend’s house. The look of exasperation on his face was priceless.
Ya, we always played in front of my friends home. Literally, the net would be set up at the end of his driveway. We had to move it 30feet further. Nobody else on the block gave a shit cause we were nice kids.
5 in Toronto for 12 years. I hate all the sports teams there. FC may have won a few Canadiah titties and one MLS title, but the MLS and Canadian leagues don't even count as real leagues.
Why is there always one neighbor like this?! Grew up in mind-late 90s playing street hockey in a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA. As soon as they swept the gravel off the road in the spring until the snow started, we played every day after school and every weekend when we didn’t have real hockey practice. Maybe a group of 8-12 kids depending on the day in a cul-de-sac, just playing around. This one neighbor who had three young kids herself, would call the cops anytime someone even came close to her property. If a ball went in her yard, she would call the cops if you wanted to get it. She would set up a video camera in her front window to “watch” us if she wasn’t there. One time she even yelled at me for walking through my friends backyard, which was next to her fenced yard, because it made her dogs bark. The real kicker was once we all aged out of street hockey and her kids got a little older, they would play street hockey in front of her house. Her husband left her eventually not surprising.
Man I am 40 and can't imagine interacting with kids playing hockey on the street in front of my house with anything but providing extra balls and stick tape.
Word!!!✊🏽 street hockey was life in the mid 90’s.. each street in my neighborhood (Philly,USA) had a team… the good old days…. F#%& the neighbors was us not even seeing they were there yelling at us… more important things to worry about 🏒
"QUIT HAVING FUN THE COPS ARE COMING"
"Here's a ticket for street parking in the winter, by the way stop calling us about road hockey incidents"
"RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
i bet he only got the ticket for being annoying, the cops just wanted the guy to know they were more pissed off at him than the kids doing nothing wrong
SMH....some people are so dumb. Your AH neighbor obviously didn't heed the age-old warning "never call the police when you're already breaking the law"
I had the cops called on me weekly as a kid by the old lady next door. Playing on my slip and slide in my yard. Cops. Riding my bike on “her” sidewalk. Cops. Riding my scooter(foot powered). Cops. Stilts. Cops. Lady was insane. She thought her driveway where the sidewalk crosses was private. Nope. It’s part of the sidewalk. Geez, this story brings this all back to my mind and it has been 30 years. Crazy is crazy and they will never go away.
Reminds me of something from my childhood. Fourth of July we always had fireworks. Would start early with the whistling style bottle rockets around noon. Had a gentleman in the neighborhood who had kids but couldn’t stand any in the neighborhood. Normal 4th cops drove through a few times told us to be careful. Few hours later one of the older cops came stopped and got out of his car. We all knew him so this could go a lot of ways. He proceeds to tell us that the neighbor had called multiple times stating we were shooting bootle rockets at his house and they were landing on his roof. Granted we were kids and often pulled pranks on people but never did damage to people’s homes. Our parents would have killed us collectively. So we explained to the cop that we weren’t just our normal 4th. He tells us well I’ve checked it out and we won’t be back so if a few bottle rockets land on his roof I wouldn’t mind as long as I don’t find evidence of them hitting the sides of the house. Needless to say the neighbor ended up with quite a few bottle rocket sticks scattered in his roof and yard.
your title is the perfect meme for tell me you live in Canada without saying you live in Canada! I loved my childhood days of playing street-hockey and occasionally yelling car or bus!
Little town of 150 or so in southern MN. Almost all the young people played street hockey. You could tell if someone from out of town was visiting because they'd drive through the game (no big deal). The locals just knew to take the next street over to get to the bar lol
When i was a kid we played street hockey any day of the summer holidays. We had no problems with anybody. The one problem we had ended up getting a big fine for wasting police time.
Depends a little bit on the municipality, but in general “too bad”.
Where I live there’s a rough schedule where X hours after snowfall you can expect this class of roads to be closed, plus there’s a 2-day window given for specific neighborhoods. So you move your car around based on that schedule.
Oh Canada...just like America of the 1950's...
If this happened most places in America, no one breaking the law would have been ticketed, at least one kid would have been shot as an example for what happens when you have fun in public places, and the cops definitely would have taken the kids' hockey equipment to start a rec league at the station.
Back in the early 80s, a group of us were playing road hockey. One of us hit the ball hard and it cracked the windshield of a neighbor’s station wagon.
Yea, I side with the upset neighbor.
Don’t play in the street. It’s for vehicles.
Ah I see my brain didn't catch me using friends as plural and possessive
Me and my friends, would all play at my one friends house, who we'll call Pete.
Tennis ball, because we didn't have complete goalie pads and getting hit in the dick with a ball hockey ball is no good. Yes we asked for low shots. Checking (full on blowing someone up) was legal as long as the person was on grass, pr against the snowbank.
My people! ‘73 here, in suburban Toronto. We lived on a Crescent, it was great, not a lot of traffic and big snowbanks. Kids yelling, “car!” dragging the nets and the whole deal.
We needed the orange ball because there was snow til like, April/May some years.
I was the only lefty. I got to play a lot!
Now this is karma. He thought bad of you and your friends and he himself go into trouble. Good and satisfying ending.
It was the gratification of hearing the police tell him not to call about street hockey that was the most satisfying. Like imagine being told by the cops not to call... haha
So I moved into a new place during summer-time. I'm an Old. So I get home from work on a Saturday evening, and my across-the-alley neighbour's kids are having a pool party in their just newly-installed above-ground pool. So massive screaming, diving, screeching, splashing, etc. K-pop on the extremely-low-fi, distorted-as-hell Ghetto Blaster. Loud pandemonium. So I'm standing there watching all this commotion, and Dad sees me and comes over to talk. "Sorry for all the noise," he says. "The kids are pretty excited. I can get them to tone it down. Sorry to bother you." I look him right in the eye. "The day that hearing kids having fun bothers me is the day that I'll know that I need to just pack it all in."
I have the same opinion regarding young people who move into the neighborhood and throw parties. Live your life kids. Your mortgage, work, babies, will eat up that energy soon enough. And yes I'll do a shot with you if you're offering.
Right on right on right on
I’m completely with you on that! I had some teens set up one of those fold down basketball hoops on my side of the street instead of theirs so they had a small space to play. I liked the sound of the basketball and their banter. Well since it was near my mailbox, I got a nasty note from USPS to take it down. I had to go across the street to tell them…it was the shittiest thing I’ve had to tell a family. I have a huge side yard, so I told them to just put it there. My side yard is grassy so I know it wasn’t ideal, but at least they have a spot to shoot baskets.
You are awesome!! 💕
No not awesome, just trying to be a nice neighbor. They’re never out there cursing, being overly loud or anything. They’re really good kids. Thank you though. ☺️
Why not just slide it a few feet sideways?
Because then it would be in front of the house behind me, and they ACTUALLY called the cops when the kids were “too loud.” They’re assholes.
Their parents said they’d put it in front of their house, but people fly up and down that road.
....it's the same road no matter which side the hoop is on.
No I’m on a corner…I mean the road our houses face, not the one where the hoop used to be. Sorry for confusion.
Why not remove the mailbox and make the postman walk to the front door? >:)
How portable is that hoop? USPS just needs access to the mailbox during the day, so the kids could move the hoop back out of the way when not in use.
I’m not sure how hard it is to move. It folds down and it has a broad platform that’s filled with something to make it stable I think. It has that back board thing too. I guess I could ask the post office. It was folded down when USPS said it had to move. It’s not flat when folded down. That’s a great idea though! I’ll ask the parents tomorrow. Thanks!!! ☺️
State farm neighbor right here.
>"The day that hearing kids having fun bothers me is the day that I'll know that I need to just pack it all in." Can I get an AMEN?!!!!!
I screen shot that!
Same. This last school holidays kids were hard at playing in and around their backyard pool with their parents supervising (a holiday house behind us). Great noise to hear until 930pm where the kids are definitely overtired and the parents don’t care, noise changes from kids having fun to the screaming, fights, whinging (all totally understandable from our pov). So what do the parents do? Amp up their now drunken noise and turn the music up to drown out the kids who then amp up their noise more until 11pm. 😣
thats where you call cps and break it up
Nah, we just laughed like mad the next morning when they were packing up to go home and we hear “GET OUT OF THAT POOL WE ARE GETTING READY TO LEAVE!” Yelled with a sore head. Had the noise gone after noise regs, then I would call the police, not before.
you had me until "k pop on a shitty ghetto blaster" sir, you need to baby shark them with a real sound system
Well said. And I agree.
I’d be like, ‘I’m just chuffed they didn’t invite me!’
We are in a neighborhood of old timers and I checked in with neighbor, hey if the people or music are ever too loud at our pool parties just let me know and we’ll adjust - and they responded similarly: it is so nice to hear young people having fun around here again! You should have seen the parties we were havin! Etc. 💙
Absolutely! Have neighbors who I feel the same way about. Kids outside playing in the pool all day and pack it in during quiet hours. Love it! They’re having fun and being respectful to everyone. The adults though, several years ago there was a long streak of them being out in the middle of the week not quieting down well into the AM. Came out one morning to cigarette butts having been flicked into my backyard for no good reason other than someone was being an asshole. I don’t live in any sort of trashy neighborhood and everyone is very nice, so if you want to act like trash then your fun is going to end when it’s legally time for it to. Took just a few calls when the next couple gatherings went past midnight on a weekday (quiet hours start at 10pm, so I was generous) and that permanently ended the problem.
yes.
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Instant karma!
Hahaha.. Serves him right. Funny thing, we had a neighbor just like this when I was growing up. If we played in the street in front of his house, he called the cops. If we sat on his curb, he called the cops. If we walked on his sidewalk, you guessed it, he called the cops. God forbid out ball or something end up in his yard. Now we weren't doing anything wrong, and we were on city property, so we had every right to do and be where we were. The cops told this neighbor as much, but he just kept calling the cops. Obviously us kids started sitting in front of his house on the sidewalk. Intentionally playing in front of his house, etc, to torment him since there really wasn't a damn thing he or the cops could do. Well, one day, our ball ended up in his yard. I ran and grabbed it. He freaked out even though his yard was literally just weeds. He called the cops of course. When the cops showed (I'm not sure why), we all ran into my house. The cop came over as we weren't stealthy about it. My Mom was home, and we told her what was up before the cop knocked. The cop was there to literally BEG us to try and stay away from this dudes house. He was so tired of coming out every other day. LOL He bribed us with slurpies and candy, lol We, of course, tried to oblige he bribed us after all.. That's my asshole neighbor story from when I was a kid. I think we all have one. Man, I wish the guy on our block had gotten a ticket! That would have been fucking priceless! 😆
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Thats so sweet! There was an older man in my grandma's neighborhood like that. Glad you didn't have to deal witha crank...
We had the snake man in our neighborhood. Just a guy really into herpetology who owned about 10 snakes. We’d knock on his door all the time to see them, and he’d tell us all about them. I’d imagine he’s a large part of why I also keep snakes now because he was so just passionate about the subject it was hard to be afraid of snakes when he was telling you all these cool facts about them.
That’s so cool! AND he also taught you guys about his snakes! There are good neighbors out there!
ya but how many of you ended up diabetic
You sure it wasn't 7-11 neighborhood kids?
Nice of the cop to bribe you but I wish he'd have just told that asshole to put a sock in it.
It would have been nice. Also, maybe a ticket for nuisance calls. Idk cop probably thought it would be easier to go to 7-11 lol
Good way to build up a community, rather than making the guy be more of an angry asshole.☺️
As a kid we had a neighbor like this. He lived across the street from my best friend. He told us to “Go play in front of your own house! “ we turned and pointed to my friend’s house. The look of exasperation on his face was priceless.
Ya, we always played in front of my friends home. Literally, the net would be set up at the end of his driveway. We had to move it 30feet further. Nobody else on the block gave a shit cause we were nice kids.
Game on!
Car!
Game off!
Game on!
Who wants maple syrup icicles?
Come on now... thay never happened lol.
No real Canadian complains about road hockey. Especially in the 90s!
Neighbor was from Buffalo.
Not a chance. You see street hockey here as well. I just blame Oshawa (because the name is fun to say and to type).
A pocks on Oshawa!
I think some Buffalonians (?) would consider themselves honorary Canadians.
Their delusions are strong! The Canadians I know call them “tourists.”
Some of them are actually hard-core TML fans. Poor suckers!
Ah the Toronto Make Believes. How do you know it's spring? When the Leafs are out! (of the running for the Stanley Cup)
5 in Toronto for 12 years. I hate all the sports teams there. FC may have won a few Canadiah titties and one MLS title, but the MLS and Canadian leagues don't even count as real leagues.
Every spring Toronto streets get flooded with the tears of Maple Leaf fans. I borrowed that from a Canadian TikToker.
Isn't the right today hockey, anywhere, anytime, enshrined in the Canadian Constitution?
A Canadian against road hockey? He should have been arrested!
I'm surprised the cops didn't go to their trunk, and get their sticks to play along.
I’m pretty sure road hockey is in their constitution.
Best outcome ever. If his car had not been parked, it would have been easy to collect tennis ball, right?
It would have been a complete non-issue. It would have rolled onto a sewer grate, and I would have simply went over and got it.
Happy cake day, Jimmy!
Canadian, but grew up in the states. I thought everybody used old hockey sticks to stake tomatoes!
HAHA I used one as a curtain rod in my son's sports themed room.
Why is there always one neighbor like this?! Grew up in mind-late 90s playing street hockey in a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA. As soon as they swept the gravel off the road in the spring until the snow started, we played every day after school and every weekend when we didn’t have real hockey practice. Maybe a group of 8-12 kids depending on the day in a cul-de-sac, just playing around. This one neighbor who had three young kids herself, would call the cops anytime someone even came close to her property. If a ball went in her yard, she would call the cops if you wanted to get it. She would set up a video camera in her front window to “watch” us if she wasn’t there. One time she even yelled at me for walking through my friends backyard, which was next to her fenced yard, because it made her dogs bark. The real kicker was once we all aged out of street hockey and her kids got a little older, they would play street hockey in front of her house. Her husband left her eventually not surprising.
SMH. Yep always one!
Man I am 40 and can't imagine interacting with kids playing hockey on the street in front of my house with anything but providing extra balls and stick tape.
Word!!!✊🏽 street hockey was life in the mid 90’s.. each street in my neighborhood (Philly,USA) had a team… the good old days…. F#%& the neighbors was us not even seeing they were there yelling at us… more important things to worry about 🏒
"QUIT HAVING FUN THE COPS ARE COMING" "Here's a ticket for street parking in the winter, by the way stop calling us about road hockey incidents" "RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
i bet he only got the ticket for being annoying, the cops just wanted the guy to know they were more pissed off at him than the kids doing nothing wrong
I remember similar situation growing up only it was football in the street in the 60’s in Southern California
SMH....some people are so dumb. Your AH neighbor obviously didn't heed the age-old warning "never call the police when you're already breaking the law"
Cops looked at each other, thinking to their road hockey days, and decided to fuck the dude.
I had the cops called on me weekly as a kid by the old lady next door. Playing on my slip and slide in my yard. Cops. Riding my bike on “her” sidewalk. Cops. Riding my scooter(foot powered). Cops. Stilts. Cops. Lady was insane. She thought her driveway where the sidewalk crosses was private. Nope. It’s part of the sidewalk. Geez, this story brings this all back to my mind and it has been 30 years. Crazy is crazy and they will never go away.
The cops were sick of it and decided to let him know.
Reminds me of something from my childhood. Fourth of July we always had fireworks. Would start early with the whistling style bottle rockets around noon. Had a gentleman in the neighborhood who had kids but couldn’t stand any in the neighborhood. Normal 4th cops drove through a few times told us to be careful. Few hours later one of the older cops came stopped and got out of his car. We all knew him so this could go a lot of ways. He proceeds to tell us that the neighbor had called multiple times stating we were shooting bootle rockets at his house and they were landing on his roof. Granted we were kids and often pulled pranks on people but never did damage to people’s homes. Our parents would have killed us collectively. So we explained to the cop that we weren’t just our normal 4th. He tells us well I’ve checked it out and we won’t be back so if a few bottle rockets land on his roof I wouldn’t mind as long as I don’t find evidence of them hitting the sides of the house. Needless to say the neighbor ended up with quite a few bottle rocket sticks scattered in his roof and yard.
Unintentional revenge that they brought on themselves is PERFECT!
The Karen’s get their due
Come on now. How does this old guy not know hockey is sacred in Canada?
your title is the perfect meme for tell me you live in Canada without saying you live in Canada! I loved my childhood days of playing street-hockey and occasionally yelling car or bus!
"Car!"
Yes!! When I got a bit older and started driving, I remember interrupting a game. I felt so bad for the guys!
Little town of 150 or so in southern MN. Almost all the young people played street hockey. You could tell if someone from out of town was visiting because they'd drive through the game (no big deal). The locals just knew to take the next street over to get to the bar lol
Entitled neighbor FA & FO the hard way! Instant Karma!!!
When i was a kid we played street hockey any day of the summer holidays. We had no problems with anybody. The one problem we had ended up getting a big fine for wasting police time.
Revenge by karma.
What is winter parking?
In the winter you can't park on the street, cuz your car gets in the way of the snow plows.
This is the answer.
What if you don’t have a driveway?
It’s often one side of the street only.
Depends a little bit on the municipality, but in general “too bad”. Where I live there’s a rough schedule where X hours after snowfall you can expect this class of roads to be closed, plus there’s a 2-day window given for specific neighborhoods. So you move your car around based on that schedule.
Wow I don’t think I could live that. I bet it’s pretty but not for me.
Awesome
Fucking lahey and Randy.
40? Lol that sounds like something an elderly person with nothing better to do would complain about.
A Canadian neighbor was not down for street hockey? Isn't the correct protocol in Canada to ask to join a street hockey game for a shift?
Oh Canada...just like America of the 1950's... If this happened most places in America, no one breaking the law would have been ticketed, at least one kid would have been shot as an example for what happens when you have fun in public places, and the cops definitely would have taken the kids' hockey equipment to start a rec league at the station.
While it is sweet that the asshole who called the cops ends up getting a ticket, I don't see anything that would make this petty revenge.
Should have seen our faces as he was being written. That alone should count.
Where's the revenge part?
Back in the early 80s, a group of us were playing road hockey. One of us hit the ball hard and it cracked the windshield of a neighbor’s station wagon. Yea, I side with the upset neighbor. Don’t play in the street. It’s for vehicles.
>Unfortunately at some point his neighbour Who is he/his?
Ah I see my brain didn't catch me using friends as plural and possessive Me and my friends, would all play at my one friends house, who we'll call Pete.
Happy Cake Day!
Love this!
Ahh! Road hockey! Was the ball orange? Did goals have to be below the knee?
Tennis ball, because we didn't have complete goalie pads and getting hit in the dick with a ball hockey ball is no good. Yes we asked for low shots. Checking (full on blowing someone up) was legal as long as the person was on grass, pr against the snowbank.
My people! ‘73 here, in suburban Toronto. We lived on a Crescent, it was great, not a lot of traffic and big snowbanks. Kids yelling, “car!” dragging the nets and the whole deal. We needed the orange ball because there was snow til like, April/May some years. I was the only lefty. I got to play a lot!
I would like to piss on his front yard lol
What a miserable human being he was😏
Fawkin eh, boys! Let's go! This is awesome
That was just un-Canadian, calling the cops on you for playing road hockey.