Cheeky Encounter

Thanks for all your replies and suggestions. I will be on my guard in future as I wouldn't be surprised if will try it again next time they have a garden party.

I have started a similar post about people being cheeky.

I was brought up to wait to be invited/offered and not to ask as it was cheeky!!

Covid aside, if you said yes, you could (as another poster said) end up being an unpaid child minder every time the child was around.

I think you handled it very well. Blooming cheek on his part!

Sounds like it could have been the drink talking,but you did the right thing anyway.

Of course you did the right thing, because of covid and as a general principle. Time to let go of it now, please don’t worry about your responses.

If you had allowed it the child would want to go on the trampoline every time he visited and before you knew it you would be running some sort of play area with you in sole charge and the parents enjoying a bit of freedom next door.

Next time, look at your watch and just say-OMG I am late and go indoors if you do not feel like telling him to bog off.

what a cheek. you did right to ignore the remark. If the child had an accident on the trampoline you would have been sued

Definitely cheeky.! Best wishes try not to think about it anymore. (Ps I would have & have felt like you but sadly people then take advantage)

Nell8 I do too. It sounded like they'd had a jolly time. I do think he wanted to go on the trampoline himself!

You did the right thing. I'd have been very cross. Stick to your guns. Your garden is not the local playpark.

I suspect alcohol had been taken! Don't let it get to you. If it happens again stick to your guns and say you're sorry but you don't want the responsibility, or ignore it and change the subject like before. You don't want a queue of tots at your door in the school holidays begging for "a go".

What a nerve!

If you had let him come over, they would expect it every time they visit.

Cannot believe the cheek that some people have.

I'm very good at pretending I don't know what someone is talking about, and I would've reacted just like you!

He was insolent and you handled the situation well.

Flipping rude, I might have mentioned chances of Covid as they obviously broke the rule of 6 in their garden. But no is a perfectly acceptable reply.

He shouldn’t have asked you

You did the right thing, you might want to say No even when the pandemic is over or you are likely to have umpteen kiddies over every time they are next door

Not the way to ask anyway.

"Do you think he might..." "Would it be possible, please...." - a totally different kettle of fish.

But still an imposition in these times, or at any time really.

If it happens again, I'd mutter something about insurance and health & safety, and that you wouldn't want to be responsible even with parental permission.

Just to add, the wall is high so another reason I was startled to see them!
Am I over thinking this?