These two lovebirds have been standing outside my apartment nearly every night for weeks. They look to be middle schoolers or maybe early high schoolers. They’ll often hang around there for an hour or more.
The weather’s been nice and I like to open my windows, but I can constantly hear them chatting, laughing. Should I close my windows? Probably, but they’re my windows and I’ll do with them as I please.
I feel a bit bad because they’re so young and it seems like they have no place to go. But there are plenty of other places nearby. There are cafes and fast food places around. The closest park is about a minute walk away. Their hangout is only 10 minutes from a more populated area where laughing in the streets for hours would be totally appropriate. But instead they chose the quiet suburbs.
Do they have to have their evening rendezvous in driveway sandwiched between my building and the next? Right outside my window?
I’ve told them twice that this is not a place to hang out, but they keep returning. How do I get rid of them?
\-Scrooge
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Throw empty drink cans at them
This is Japan’s only shot at solving the population issue, don’t intervene 😂😂
Do it the Japanese way put up a sign on your building saying no loitering in the vicinity
Put a mosquito coil just outside your door, or play classical/opera music from your open window?
Dab on them
> There are cafes and fast food places around.
You buyin’?
Ask them nicely to leave, if that doesn’t work yell at them and chase them off. I have to do this weekly at the park across from me
Offer to teach them English
Call the police (/s). That’s what someone did to my friends who were talking outside their apartment in the daytime.
Stare at them from you window anytime they’re there. The. Whole. Time. Bonus points if you mumble incoherently the whole time.
Other possibility: just let them be. It’s very 青春 and it’s low cost to just endure for a bit.
Ask them what school they go to and the name of their homeroom teacher. Should be enough.
Hmm, a bucket full of water accidentally fell out of your window one night?
[too many people in this thread…](https://i.imgur.com/kY3bOlr_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
Let kids be kids man.
But if you really want them gone, just go outside and stand near them every time they come out. I’m sure presence would be enough to terrorize em
Hit on his gf
Why not let them enjoy themselves? Don’t sweat the small stuff!
idk just try be friends with them, then maybe you will be joining in on the nightly conversations lol
Get one of this ultrasound pest controller. The most annoying setting is barely audible for adults but not for young people…
Hand them a condom and tell them to get lost
Japanese people install anti-young speakers, usually.
http://www.accessj.com/2012/05/anti-loitering-mosquito-device-in-japan.html
Op don’t listen to the people who are telling you to bear with it, your privacy and peace is important.
That spot has probably been a meeting spot long before u moved in.
Don’t tell me u were the type that went straight home after school.
They’re kids. Unless it’s egregious let them be. It’s getting colder anyway.
And we want those damn kids to stop skateboarding on the sidewalks!
Buy fake gokiburi (Tokyu Hands, Don Quixote) and sprinkle in the area.
Listen Karen, where they are is public space, they’re free to use the space there and other public spaces. your window is yours, open it, close it, break it, yours to decide. thats it. they’re not invading private space, not disturbing the peace, not being obnoxious, not listening to music loudly, not speaking loudly.
you’re the karen now, get it?
I like to tell them stories that go nowhere, like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ’em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..
Easy to fix: get yourself a pair of speakers and blast Can You Feel The Love Tonight on repeat.
I mean how late are we talking? You said it’s just an hour? If it’s before like 9pm or so I wouldn’t care. It’s not that big of a deal to choose your window for an hour, 80% if the year it is either too cold or too hot to open your windows anyway. Seems like you live in an area that would be expected to be fairly noisy if there’s parks and restaurants and cafes and stuff all around. I’d just deal with it by closing the window at that time or putting in earphones or something
You can start talking to them. They might run if you do.
They’re always in the same place?
If you know exactly when and where they will come, you should try going before them to enjoy the nice breeze of autumn on their favorite spot!
“I’m a Karen, but am asking other people on Reddit for help on how to do it better.” They probably live in the nearby apartments too, so it’s their space as much as it is yours. Maybe more! You have an apartment to go into. Kids don’t have their own space.
Wow, just realized that the simple sounds of other people being happy nearby are offensive to this person. They may need help.
At that age their everlasting love will last what – a month? Less? You could chase them away but they’ll probably stop showing up before too long anyway.
Play some porno in the background(just loud enough for them to hear)
Large plastic water bottles
Put some snacks and soft drinks on the ground in a cute basket with a message like “for the two teenager lovers” a bit before they come, they will love the gesture 🤗🤗🤗