Jealous busybody gets Mom in trouble.

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Originally Posted by Pico and ME

I still wonder who narc'ed.

For what it's worth, I'm with glatt--we can't know for sure, but it's possible they may have a semi-legitimate gripe.

Middle-schoolers are, generally speaking, a pain in the ass. Their social development is right at that crux where they've figured out they are occasionally funny or interesting, but are still desperately exploring what they can do to recreate those circumstances. Thus, the vast majority of them are attention whores. Get several of them together, and you will in no time have a raucous, laughing group all trying to impress each other in stupid ways, especially if there is a mix of boys and girls.

Now imagine that group of loud attention whores standing outside in your neighbor's driveway at 7:00 AM or earlier every single morning. Maybe the bus stop is right there anyway, or maybe it's down the street--from the complaining neighbor's point of view, it might be far superior to be able to kick those kids even a half a block away and finally be able to get some sleep.

Maybe the kids do go straight indoors and aren't being a nuisance, we don't know. But it's my experience that neighbors usually complain about each other for a reason, even if it isn't the stated reason.