My favorite Christmas story is about my kids and their friends singing Carols in our neighborhood.
It began with my asking the kids to sing carols into an old tape-recorder I had. About 8 kids gathered around and they sounded great. I had a brainstorm! “Let’s go out tonight and sing carols to the neighbors - any money they give - you can buy your parents gifts - or give it to charity’
At night - we stopped at about 10 houses. The kids were happy - they earned about $25 and change.
Then the phone rang: “Mrs Sodpoodle - this is Officer Pooler. Were you out singing carols tonight?”
Me: “yes, we were.”
Officer: “Well, we had a complaint from a neighbor.”
Me: “I thought we sounded great.”
Officer: “Chuckle”
Me; “Did we need a permit? Because the children plan to give their money to charity. I really would like to apologize to the neighbor, could you tell me who it was who complained?”
AND HE DID - So the next day I marched over to her house with a receipt from the Salvation Army!!!!!!
She was shunned by the other parents after that!!!
We Christians stick together. LOLOl!
We used to go Christmas caroling as kids (organized by my mom; 5 of us, and we each got to invite a few friends, then would have doughnuts and cocoa back at the house afterward)and then in my early married life. No one ever offered us money, just usually cookies or treats (maybe we were awful singers?).
Hard to believe someone REPORTED you to police.