A mum has been handed a furious note after kicking her neighbours’ children out of her daughter’s birthday party – but she feels they shouldn’t have shown up univited
A woman has found herself in a seriously uncomfortable predicament after she and her husband booted their neighbours’ kids out of their daughter’s birthday party.
According to this conflicted mum, she had a pretty ‘meh’ relationship with her neighbours, and although they’ll wave and say hello, they don’t really talk to each other all that much. She was therefore surprised when her neighbours’ two children rocked up to her daughter’s eighth birthday party, without an invite.
The only people invited to the princess-themed party, held in the couple’s semi-fenced garden, were family and friends. When it came to handing out cupcakes, however, they noticed two little guests who absolutely hadn’t been on the invite list…
Taking to Reddit, the baffled mother recalled: “I then realised they were my neighbours’ kids. I paused handing out cupcakes to ask why they were here and one of the kids just shrugged and said, ‘My mummy said I could go’. I told them it was inappropriate to just come here. My husband escorted them back to their parents’ house. All the neighbours houses are decently spaced so it’s not necessarily dangerous but we felt better if someone walked with the kids.”
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the end of the matter, and after the cake was cut, their neighbours approached once again. To make matters even more awkward, this time both parents and children turned up. She continued: “I asked what they were doing and they looked confused, saying they were joining the party. I was a little agitated now and sternly said they were not invited, that this was a birthday party for my daughter and family/family friends were invited. It was awkward as they left and the kids kept whining as they did.
“Next day, today, I got a handwritten letter in my mailbox about how I treated the neighbours rudely and it’s expected to share community events. Was I too rude/harsh?”
A number of fellow Reddit users felt the neighbours had been very cheeky indeed, and believed the mum had been well within her rights to show them the door. One person commented: “So your entitled neighbours regard a private party as a ‘community event’? Fortunately, you are not obligated to share their delusions. […] You should probably put up security cameras. And a note in their mailbox explaining the difference between ‘community events’ and private parties would be entirely appropriate.”
Another agreed: “Exactly this. Their delusions that a child’s birthday party on private property is a community event is their issue to sort out. They were the rude ones for first sending their kids over uninvited and then bringing them back over again.”
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