Children spend less and less time outside as the years go by. Few kids nowadays know the terror and shame of going to the grumpy lady next door to retrieve your ball that has fallen into her peony garden. Save The Children reported in 2022 that only one in four children regularly play outside. One of the reasons they don’t is that parents fear neighbors complaining about it.
However, there are ways to deal with such prickly neighbors, as is evident in this story. The neighbor here decided to complain about a small soccer goal in a family’s yard where the daughter played. And after two visits from the police, the family had enough. They decided to comply with the neighbor’s demands maliciously and opted to fight petty with pettiness.
