Ok, the YTA kiddies are doing it again! She was certainly NOT TA! Her pool, her home, her rules! Run along kiddies, let the adults talk!

LIABILITY ... can't stress that enough to justify OPs actions ... would this woman also let her children "borrow" something from another person's house without asking ... would she allow it to be done to her ...

I will never understand the attitude of "you have it, I want it, therefore I'll take it". People earn these things; one suspects such people have never thought that the rules apply to them, probably starting in school.

Looks like, sometime around 40 or so years ago, parents just stopped teaching their kids not to touch someone else’s stuff unless you ask nicely first—-every single time, because one yes is not blanket permission unless they (and not you) say it is—-and if they say no, it means no. Period. If they say yes, you treat their stuff like it’s made of gold. You then return it promptly and in as good shape, or better if possible, as it was when they let you borrow it. The upcoming generations need to learn this and pass it on t9 their own children, so we can avoid dealing with this kind of horseshit in the future.

Why is it always the aggrieved party, the person in the right, the one being taken advantage of that has to just accept $hit¥ behavior to " keep the peace"? The YTAs are insane!

The entitlement of the YTA people is on par with the neighbor. I bet they'd change their tune real quick if it was their pool being used.

NTA from now to eternity. If either of them were to get hurt the owners wound be liable. What is really stupid is when a criminal gets hurt on your property and can use... What the hell is up with that??? She had every right to tell them to leave when they weren't invited or she didn't ask permission. Then she starts badmouthing her to others in the neighborhood, nope you're done!

I really enjoy her misspelling “neighbor” as “nabour”. I think it was a good job guessing from phonetics! It really tickles me! ☺️

It will be a nightmare if the woman or her kids are injured while in the pool......or worse, god forbid, drown. The homeowner's will be sued. Never let anyone on your property unsupervised!!!

"Let them use it because they're kids" is a horrible reason. Being a kid isn't an excuse to get away with trespassing.

Had the mother asked this might have turned out differently. What an entitled rude move. It's truly a shame for those children. Imagine these nice neighbors already are kind enough to babysit for free, had she asked nicely, I'm thinking she might have received permission for an occasional swim.

#256 of things that never happened....

Why does anyone think they have the right to someone else's property especially without asking first? This wave of entitlement seems to be sweeping everything and everyone.

So the OP caught her neighbors trespassing on her property and utilizing her private pool without permission. She asked them to leave and was verbally assulted then defamed. She shouldn't watch her neighbors kids anymore and might need to have a legal letter sent to her neighbor specifically telling them to stay off her property for liability purposes. If they tresspas again and something happens it'll been in writing. People like that don't tend to be good neighbors and usually need serious, even heavy handed, deterrents to make them understand the seriousness of their breaking social boundaries. It's a very specific mindset that crosses this type of boundary feels entitled to other people property.

This story seems to be on repeat

sorry, cannot get over the "nabour" part. Tried, could not make it to the end.

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So, the AI software to create such have now reached the ability of rural spelling. Interesting, that is...

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its NEIGHBOR! What the heck?