Kids waiting for school bus on my porch

[Anonymous]

Yeah, my kids ride two different buses and there's no way I would tell them to wait on the porch! Umbrellas for all. Go out one morning when it is not raining & introduce yourself to the parents as the new owner. Tell them you're fine with the bus stop and the kids on the lawn, but please don't let the kids on the porch,thankyouverymuch.

One of our bus stops is in front of a house that just changed hands and I'm sure the new owners are going to tell the boys to stop climbing their trees! The old lady who lived there before loved it -- she said it reminded her of her boys when they were little.

[Anonymous]

put up a fence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel a bit like the neighborhood ogre, but I don't want kids waiting for the school bus on my porch. I wanted to post here to see if I am being reasonable or making a big deal over nothing. I just moved into a corner house in new neighborhood. The house has a school bus stop in front of it. My kids go to another school so don't ride the school bus. As I walked outside to get the paper one raining morning I saw two kids on my porch peering in the front door stained glass window. You can't see inside unless you put your face up to the door. I told them to go wait on the corner and they ran off the porch. As I was picking up the newspaper a car pulled up and a girl around 9 ran out of the car and started walking up to my porch. I called out and told her to wait on the corner. Her mom rolled down and the window and said she was only going to be there a minute until the school bus came. I am not sure if she had said this in nicer tone I would have let it go but the entitled attitude tone she said it in pissed me off. I told her kid again in a louder voice to go wait on the corner and the mom drove off. A few days later the same girl stood on my porch and when I went outside she said her mom said it was OK because it was raining. I again told her to go wait on the corner and she was not allowed on my porch no matter what the weather was like. I feel like it is a slippery slope, that if I am not consistent I will have kids on my porch every morning then in the afternoon waiting for their parents. As it is I pick up a lot of food wrappers on the corner and my plants there all get trampled. I figure that is not a big deal but the porch is. Any thoughts?

Who the fuck drives a child to a neighborhood school bus stop? Have we become THAT lazy of a society?

[Anonymous]

Liability is a very real issue. I had a very good friend who fell down my front steps and broke her ankle. She had significant medical bills, and she told me that if her insurance didn't cover everything, she was going to have to sue me. "Nothing personal." I asked a lawyer friend, and he told me my insurance company would almost certainly settle right away -- and then either raise my rates or cancel my policy.

More importantly, if a kid falls your property after Mommie has headed off to Starbucks, what are you going to do?

[Anonymous]

Call the school. The principal will put out an e-mail announcing that kids are not to wait on private property for the bus.

[Anonymous]

I agree with OP and good for you for telling them to move.

Totally inappropriate!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel a bit like the neighborhood ogre, but I don't want kids waiting for the school bus on my porch. I wanted to post here to see if I am being reasonable or making a big deal over nothing. I just moved into a corner house in new neighborhood. The house has a school bus stop in front of it. My kids go to another school so don't ride the school bus. As I walked outside to get the paper one raining morning I saw two kids on my porch peering in the front door stained glass window. You can't see inside unless you put your face up to the door. I told them to go wait on the corner and they ran off the porch. As I was picking up the newspaper a car pulled up and a girl around 9 ran out of the car and started walking up to my porch. I called out and told her to wait on the corner. Her mom rolled down and the window and said she was only going to be there a minute until the school bus came. I am not sure if she had said this in nicer tone I would have let it go but the entitled attitude tone she said it in pissed me off. I told her kid again in a louder voice to go wait on the corner and the mom drove off. A few days later the same girl stood on my porch and when I went outside she said her mom said it was OK because it was raining. I again told her to go wait on the corner and she was not allowed on my porch no matter what the weather was like. I feel like it is a slippery slope, that if I am not consistent I will have kids on my porch every morning then in the afternoon waiting for their parents. As it is I pick up a lot of food wrappers on the corner and my plants there all get trampled. I figure that is not a big deal but the porch is. Any thoughts?

Who the fuck drives a child to a neighborhood school bus stop? Have we become THAT lazy of a society?

Mom was probably on the way to work. I see this all the time.

[Anonymous]

Also, not all bus stops are the same. In our old neighborhood there was a group of 15, 20 kids waiting at one stop. Many of which came from different streets and they didn't really know each other that well and probably didn't know the owner of the house that the stop was in front of.

Other bus stops have mostly kids who know each other from the same street hanging there. In a situation like that, where we knew the kids I would be more inclined to be o.k. with them hanging out on my porch.

[Anonymous]

Get the mosquito thing. Underhanded, but passive aggressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The previous owners likely allowed it. I would too in inclement weather. But you can do whatever you want, just be aware how you may now be viewed by the neighbors.

Probably. You're making a big deal of nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The previous owners likely allowed it. I would too in inclement weather. But you can do whatever you want, just be aware how you may now be viewed by the neighbors.

Probably. You're making a big deal of nothing.

You say that because you don't know what it's like being sued for something you had nothing to do with.

[Anonymous]

I'd probably let them on my porch, but the entitled attitude of the mom would annoy me to no end. I never stayed in anyone's house or porch waiting for the bus. Umbrella and raincoat.

[Anonymous]

Deal with it via the school. Point out liability issues.

[Anonymous]

I'm with you, OP. I feel like my porch is part of my living space, and wouldn't like strangers to use it without asking. I'm sorry you have to deal with it, because nobody wants to be viewed as the neighborhood ogre for something that a lot of people would be uncomfortable with, as this thread shows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leave porn and empty alcohol bottles and ashtrays laying around on your porch. As soon as the mom figures it out, that will be the end of that.

Typical passive-aggressive American bullshit.