On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:15:19 +0100, MM wrote:
>How would you categorise a crowd of scruffily dressed youths, maybe in
>hoodies, that hang around outside your house most days.
Unless there was some attraction near my house, I would think it
*most* odd.
I did in fact have a group of about 4 youths hanging around outside my
place on one occasion some years back. But that was because I live on
a boat, and they happened to choose that place to fish, probably
because it was a hot day and my boat provided some shade. They were a
bit loud on occasion, and they used the occasional swear-word, but
that doesn't bother me overly much. They didn't ask me for anything,
but as it was a hot day and I noticed they were not very well
organised, I chucked them a can of coke each from my fridge after a
while, for which they all thanked me politely, and threw the empty
cans up onto my deck as I had asked them to do rather than throwing
them in the water. I also gave them some stale bread to feed the
swans, though that ended up feeding the seagulls.
>And when you
>go outside they shout at you, "Gis a glass of wa'er, mate!" And you
>ignore them, so they know now they have you penned in and next you
>have them ringing your bell to ask to use your toilet. Nothing
>criminal, of course. How long are you prepared to put up with being
>hassled before they key your car (which you can't prove was them) or
>worse?
If they were that regular, I would have got chatting with them to find
out what circumstances caused them to do something as mind-numbingly
boring as hang around outside my house regularly.
Is such a thing happening to you, or is it just something that you
*imagine* might happen?
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Cynic
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