I know we’re in a pandemic & it’s really got to be difficult to have young kids cooped up in an apartment, but I had to draw a line today. I (27F) live with my mother & sister in a downstairs apartment of a 4-unit building. (2 downstairs & two upstairs). There is a cement walkway that runs from a side gate to the back parking lot with access to 3/4 units right in the middle, the two upstairs via a set of stairs & my unit has a door right under those stairs. Both downstairs units have a window right at this walkway. One of the upstairs neighbors has young children (I think 2 or 3 in total, but they moved in about a year ago & I try not to interact since pandemic). This family likes to use the walkway as a playground of sorts, with the kids using bikes & scooters in the area(it’s just slightly wider than a normal sidewalk & not big enough to be a parking spot). Normally I just put up with the noise or turn up my music/TV. I have once before asked the kids to quiet down as I had a migraine & they were literally SCREAMING “Frozen” lyrics trying to outdo each other outside my bedroom window. Today I started hearing a lot of voices & some weird tapping outside my window. I have my window blocked since it’s on the main walkway & went to my door to see what was going on, & opened it to a ton of unmasked people gathering outside my door & generally throughout the walkway. I shut the door immediately. A few minutes later, the noise was highly irritating & they’d begun hitting something I later saw was a piñata. I went out (with a mask) to ask them to be quiet & tell them this wasn’t a party area. (I would have had to walk through this crowd & needed them to stop their piñata beating to ‘safely’ pass if I had needed to access my car during this time). The man of the couple agreed & could be heard trying to remind the kids to quiet down during the rest of their festivities, but the mom seemed to have a lot of attitude about it. My own mom thinks I’m being unnecessarily grumpy about it & shouldn’t have said anything. Parks are open in my area & we are at below 8% ICU availability.

Am I wrong for pointing out that they were right outside people’s windows & it was not a suitable party venue?