If your neighbours have young children then you'll know it can sometimes be a pain having to listen to them scream and shout whenever they play outside. But at the end of the day, most of us can accept that they're kids who deserve to be able to play to their heart's content, and the screaming won't last forever.
One woman, however, is at her wit's end with her neighbour's daughter who won't stop "screaming bloody murder" whenever she's outside with her friends.
And while the woman, 20, would understand if the girl was a young child, she claims her neighbour's kid is a teenager of around 13 years old, so thinks she is "at an age to absolutely know better" than to be screaming and disturbing others' peace.
In a post on Reddit, she said: "I live in a residential neighbourhood with my parents and sibling. Our neighbours right next to us are a family of four. The parents are super friendly, always wanting to chat when we are both outside.
"However, their daughter, who is about 13, is an absolute menace. Whenever she is outside playing, whether it be with her friends or brother, she screams bloody murder. Like genuinely, if I didn't know any better, I would think she was being hurt. It's so loud and CONSTANT. I understand that she's playing, and it's better than being inside on your phone, but there is a difference between noises made when playing versus shrieking like she does. She's also at an age to absolutely know better.
"Do y'all have any advice? Like I said, her folks are super nice and I don't want to have bad blood with them, but I also don't know how much I can take until I blow up on a literal child. My family and I can't even enjoy sitting on our porch without hearing her incessant screaming."
Commenters on the post sympathised with the woman as they understood how annoying the noise was - but many of them said there wasn't much she could do aside from talking to the neighbours to explain the situation.
One person said: "I see nothing wrong with discussing the situation with her parents - perhaps she has some developmental problems which cause her to scream all the time? At least then you'd know. Start the discussion quietly and politely … if they're offended, there's not much you can do about it but at least you'll have let them know it's bothering you."
While another added: "It's the new thing and I hate it. We had a whole gaggle of neighbour kids who would all scream as they played. We moved. There was no stopping it. They would also walk up and stare into our windows and curse at us if we so much as looked at them."
And a third posted: "I hate when kids scream for no reason. I taught both my daughters that there are two reasons to scream - if you get hurt really bad and only when it first happens, or if you're being bothered or picked up by a stranger. Then they were taught in school to yell stranger danger. Neither girl ever screamed while outside playing. She's definitely old enough to know better. Her parents must wear earplugs because they're definitely not doing their job as parents."
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