People and their kids like to come over unannounced, and without permission, to look at my ducks like it’s the fuckin zoo or some shit.

Need some humor for this situation to ease my frustration

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
    67·
    6 months ago

    You’re looking at this wrong way.
    Buy a gumball machine. Put on fence. Fill machine with enough feed for the day. Charge other people to feed your ducks

  • wabafee@lemmy.world
    39·
    6 months ago

    Obvious answer is to give the kids ducklings for every visit. Pressuring kids parents to stop their kids coming over without permission. Unless they want to own duck pets.

  • krellor@fedia.io
    342·
    6 months ago

    Nonchalantly execute the ducks in front of the kids. You’ll also be supporting your local youth therapists job security.

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
    291·
    6 months ago

    Get you some geese

    Pro tip - feed them a handful of dandelion leaves twice a day, they’ll be your best friends

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
    281·
    6 months ago

    My grandmom used to hang dead birds in her garden to warn others from coming to eat her berries. Maybe this works with kids too, you just need to get a dead one from somewhere first.

  • LesserAbe@lemmy.world
    23·
    6 months ago

    Build an exact replica of that area right next to the original. They’ll be confused, are they visiting the real ducks or a simulacrum of the ducks?

  • HuddaBudda@kbin.social
    19·
    6 months ago

    Warning: Kids left unattended on this lawn will be fed to dinosaurs in the name of science.

    Parents and dogs will be given popcorn and adequate seating.

  • GlitterInfection@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    6 months ago

    My joke answer is to directly tell them that they are not allowed to come on your lawn, to not let their kids do the same, and that it’s your property, not a zoo.

    This way you’ll guarantee that your house is egged often enough that some of the eggs may not break, and some subset of those could be adopted by the ducks and hatched into baby birds that the kids also won’t be able to come look at.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 months ago

    Make sure the place they stand has no vegetation, and is always soaked, so their shoes inevitably get muddy. When they track the mud inside their houses, their parents will flip out and tell them not to go to your property again.

    Or just put a motion sensor sprinkler to spray them when they get close.

  • amio@kbin.social
    15·
    6 months ago

    Start handing out kazoos.

    Can I non-jokingly ask why that’s such a big deal? If it’s all up in your grill I get it, or some stupid liability thing. Otherwise, there’s little enough joy in the world, what’s the harm?

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldOP
      16·
      6 months ago

      My biggest thing is people getting hurt on my property. Also, I have boundaries and don’t want to be surprised by people just hanging out, especially because I have a super anxious dog.

      • amio@kbin.social
        4·
        6 months ago

        That’s fair. Sounds like a very reasonable way to explain it to the kids’ parents, too, if you get the occasion.

        • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldOP
          5·
          6 months ago

          I did that last night to the one person. She was cool about it. Like, I’m cool with them coming over to look at the birds, but I want warning first.

    • PeterLossGeorgeWall@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      93·
      6 months ago

      Seriously, embrace the situation. People are interested in hanging out with/near you. If you are the person who stops all the kids seeing the ducks you could end up being seen as the scrooge of the town. Then nobody will like you. If you want nobody to interact with then maybe you should live away from people.

      It might seem like those kids have nothing to offer to you but their parents might. My wife makes jam for our friendly neighbors…

      To address your question though, you could make it official, one day a week the kids come to see the ducks but maybe you need it quiet the rest of the time to work or whatever. Tell them when to come and they can get it out of their system.

    • amio@kbin.social
      5·
      6 months ago

      Now the ducks colonize the moat and you have two attractions. You may or may not also need a third - a drawbridge - for your own access.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 months ago

    Had a friend with problem neighbors kids cutting through his yard to get to the store. He was friendly with the parents and didn’t want to stir shit. The neighbors were super all-natural, hippie, no chemical types, so he told them he switched to a new fertilizer packed with micro-plastics and forever chemicals made by Monsanto that he had to sneak in from Mexico because it wasn’t allowed in the US. That fertilizer sure worked because the trail the kids were carving filled right in that summer.