With the coronavirus plaguing our world, a lot of activities have been canceled. Instead of spending the summer visiting the beach or camping out, everyone is expected to stay at home. Due to this, people are buying inflatable pools to set-up their own personal backyard beach.

But, it’s almost impossible to set-up a personal pool when malls and stores are running out of stock.

Pool companies have reported that their stocks have been sold out as early as March when people anticipated the long months of lockdown. Those who weren’t able to purchase earlier had to wait for so long for the new stocks to arrive. They’ll accept almost any kind of pool, whether it’s a good-sized pool for teens or short-inflatable ones for your kids.

Having a home that came with a pool is truly an advantage. You can easily use it without having to worry that you’ll be missing out on summer.

However, some are unfortunate to not have one.

One woman sparked a debate online about the neighbor’s kids and her own backyard pool.

The unnamed woman and husband were both 26-year-olds. They lived in a starter home for over a year. Their neighbors across the street have four kids who were less than 10 years old.

You see, their neighbor’s front yard was big and in a steep incline. It was used as a driveway and their neighbor’s home was much narrower than the unnamed woman’s.

As for them, their home was a small one but had a pool in the backyard.

After hiking one weekend, the couple arrived at their home only to see their neighbor’s kids playing in their yard.

The kids’ bikes and toys were in their driveway. The unnamed woman asked for them to kindly leave and asked their mother if they do not play in her yard again. The mother apologized and said she was just happy that her kids were able to go out of the house.

The unnamed woman thought that was the end of it. But it was not!

“Last week when I was in my garden my neighbor (kid’s mom) came and said hi. She asked if it would be okay if the kids could use my pool since it doesn’t seem like it gets used much anyway. She said she’d supervise but the kids have been wanting to go swimming but they can’t cause of corona restrictions. I told her I wasn’t comfortable with that, even if my husband and I were home at the time. She seemed to understand and she let it go.”

Having a pool can sometimes attract the neighborhood kids. But they didn’t spend their money for kids to just go inside their pool without permission and especially unsupervised.

Again, the woman thought it was the end of it. When she opened her Facebook, she went straight to her neighborhood’s Facebook group where she saw the mother posted this:

“I’m really disappointed in the disrespect for parents. It takes a village to raise kids, and we should support each other in this troubling time. Children need places to play and grow! When I first moved here I hoped this to be a neighborhood for young growing families. I’m just overall disappointed in how some members of this community aren’t keen on being friendly to children.”

The woman knew she was the one being mentioned, so she commented against her better judgment:

“Maybe you should have gotten a house with a bigger yard if your kids want to play.”

Afterward, the woman received a text from the mother:

“A few hours after my comment I got a text from said neighbor, saying she wasn’t referring to me and she was very hurt that I’d say something so rude on a public forum. I told her not to bother me anymore. I’ve since been removed from the FB group, by the way.”

A few hours after sharing it on Reddit, it received 1,200 comments!

People in the comments had a lot of opinions. Some thought that she was a “classist” and does not understand how to be a friendly neighbor.

“Maybe they couldn’t afford a house with a lot of land and maybe they had to make a compromise with the house they bought. It also probably makes them feel like shitty parents for not having a ‘good enough’ house for their children.”

Others thought that the mother was wrong in imposing herself when it wasn’t her pool.

“NTA what?? How can they even ask to use a random person’s pool?? I would have done the same and said no cause if something happens they would be quick to blame you.”

While others thought that the way the woman should have handled the situation was wrong.

“OP was not wrong in not letting the children play on her property. However, it was very immature to respond to the post publicly. At most, she should have contacted the neighbor privately to discuss their distances and maybe ask that the post be removed. The key difference is that that response resolves the argument whereas OPs response has started a feud for literally no reason. “

Eventually, the unnamed woman apologized for responding in a rude way to her neighbor on Facebook.

“I didn’t expect this much debate tbh. I’ve come to realize my comment was rude and I shouldn’t have said anything. I didn’t mean for it to sound classist. Some people are saying I insulted her wealth and home. This might not matter but her home is way bigger than my own but the yard is smaller based on how it was built. That’s all my comment meant, I wasn’t calling her poor. And I’m not filthy rich either, so it’s not like I’m looking down at her for money.”

So, what do you think about this debate on a pool? Who do you think was wrong or right? The owner of the pool or the mother?

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Source: Reddit, Littlethings