I live in a block of 4 flats all owned and rented out by a Housing Association. Block is 2 flats downstairs, 2 upstairs and narrow staircases to the upstairs flats. There’s a communal entrance but we all have our own front doors.
On Friday I opened my front door at 10am to find a man painting it (I hadn’t been told) asked if I could get passed with my 3 year old and went out to a group. Came back at around 12.30 for lunch and there were stood on a small stool in the middle of the staircase painting the ceiling. Guys moved to let me, DD and pushchair past.
At 2.30pm I needed to go out again as was due to pop in on my granddad. They were still on the staircase painting the ceiling. The man not painting told me that if I went out again they couldn’t let me back in again until they left at 6.30pm (my daughters bedtime). I said I’d be back about 4.30pm and they replied that me going in and out all the time meant they were behind and I’d have to wait until 6.30pm to get back into my flat unless they could catch up and leave earlier.
I did go back at 5pmish with my mum and they begrudgingly moved when she stood repeatedly asking them what they were doing (mum didn’t come into my flat or they’d have had to move again when she left).
But AIBU to think it’s normal to go out a couple of times during a day? The other residence in the block all work until 6pmish and their children are either in childcare or have moved out so it didn’t really matter to them.
Or should I have “stayed put” until they left? Just been mulling this over, and considering whether to discuss it with my HA in case it happens again?
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AIBU?
To have been out twice in a day?
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RainbowPonywithWings · 17/03/2019 18:58
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