Anonymous
09/26/2016 22:45
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
It's not "yours", OP. Relax. Writing initials in wet concrete is one of life's joys.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 21:43
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Geez. A lot of losers on this thread. Ick.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 21:36
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Let me be clear that these weren't dainty little initials in the corner of a square. It is a LARGE portion of the sidewalk. If I had done that when I was 12 my father would have spanked me with a belt.
And there we have it...explains a lot.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 20:40
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Here's what you do OP:
If you really want it to get replaced, under each kid's name you write "is a jerk" "wets his pants" "eats poop" or something of the sort. It has to be juvenile enough for plausible deniability but mean enough that the parents don't want it immortalized in concrete.
Then you can petition the county to fix it. The parents will sign on to make sure their kids keep off the concrete in the future. You get the pristine sidewalk you've always wanted.
Even if the county does nothing, at least you got back at those kids!
HA! That would be GREAT!
OP is the concrete still wet? Get out there and do this!
Anonymous
09/26/2016 20:38
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
doodlebug wrote:I didn't and I don't let my kids do it either. Not on public property.Anonymous wrote:Omg who didn't do this growing up?!
This. On our own new driveway maybe some small initials but on public sidewalks - no. I never spray painted public property either.
doodlebug
09/26/2016 20:34
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
I didn't and I don't let my kids do it either. Not on public property.Anonymous wrote:Omg who didn't do this growing up?!
Anonymous
09/26/2016 20:08
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Omg who didn't do this growing up?!
Not to this degree, no. 20 FEET?? No way, maybe 2 inch initials on a slab. Just enough to leave a mark but not enough to cause an eyesore to anyone.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 19:57
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Omg who didn't do this growing up?!
Anonymous
09/26/2016 19:44
Subject: Re:Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:I am amazed at the low standards of people on this board. Where do you live that this is acceptable? It can't be in a nice neighborhood.
Ha, yea Kalorama is a real f*cking slum.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 19:36
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:HAHA LOL. Me and my friends did this 20+ years ago on some new cement by our house. I went back and it's still there. THE MEMORIES! Love.
Really? You drew across 30 feet of wet cement and you're proud of it?
I sure am. I was maybe 11, 12?
<3
Anonymous
09/26/2016 19:16
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Come on, is this really a big deal? The county replaced a section in front of my house a few years ago. My kids wrote their name in it. I LOVE seeing it everyday!
This is our forever home, unless something terrible happens and forces me to move. In 20-30 years, I'm really going to treasure that piece of sidewalk.
It's not the OP's kid.
I'd be mad too. You spend a zillion dollars to make your home look beautiful and a bunch of stupid kids can't keep their paws from carving in it. My parents would have been furious if I defaced someone else's property. Whether it's carving a name in it or spray painting it, it's damaging someone else's property. What is so hard to understand? They can carve up their mom's sidewalk all they want if they need to destroy something.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 19:13
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
If this was really a thing, wouldn't most neighborhood sidewalks have initials carved into them? When you (collectively) walk through your neighborhood, are there initials in front of every house?
Anonymous
09/26/2016 18:59
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
I just did it this summer when the county did our sidewalk. Guess someone should beat me with a belt or something. 
Anonymous
09/26/2016 18:38
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Come on, is this really a big deal? The county replaced a section in front of my house a few years ago. My kids wrote their name in it. I LOVE seeing it everyday!
This is our forever home, unless something terrible happens and forces me to move. In 20-30 years, I'm really going to treasure that piece of sidewalk.
It's not the OP's kid.
I'd be mad too. You spend a zillion dollars to make your home look beautiful and a bunch of stupid kids can't keep their paws from carving in it. My parents would have been furious if I defaced someone else's property. Whether it's carving a name in it or spray painting it, it's damaging someone else's property. What is so hard to understand? They can carve up their mom's sidewalk all they want if they need to destroy something.
It's not OP's property. It's belongs to the county.
Okay, what is your point? It's in front of her house so it directly affects the look and aesthetic of her property. FFS, I've never seen so many idiots condone vandalism. I doubt OP cares whether the names carved are Logan or Sharkweesha, it still looks shitty!!
Anonymous
09/26/2016 17:58
Subject: Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Come on, is this really a big deal? The county replaced a section in front of my house a few years ago. My kids wrote their name in it. I LOVE seeing it everyday!
This is our forever home, unless something terrible happens and forces me to move. In 20-30 years, I'm really going to treasure that piece of sidewalk.
It's not the OP's kid.
I'd be mad too. You spend a zillion dollars to make your home look beautiful and a bunch of stupid kids can't keep their paws from carving in it. My parents would have been furious if I defaced someone else's property. Whether it's carving a name in it or spray painting it, it's damaging someone else's property. What is so hard to understand? They can carve up their mom's sidewalk all they want if they need to destroy something.
In 99% of the area you don't own your sidewalk. I bet OP doesn't. I feel like there is a whiff of something else here - are the names that are carved in somehow different, ethnic, etc. that OP doesn't want to be associated with? This has got her way more riled up than should be normal.
Uh, because you can tell ethnicity from INITIALS? Wrong. The Op is annoyed because kids that she doesn't know made the sidewalk look gross (in front of her house?). I can see being annoyed by that. If the kids want to do that in front of their own houses so be it. But to subject their neighbors to it wasn't very nice of them.