Neighbour annoyed at me over her bins

But why oh why would you go to someone’s door over it? Would you not speak to your daughter and demand answers from her given that she’s in the house all day?

Why didn't the neighbour text her daughter to remind her???

Because she’s been open about her daughter not working - I don’t think she ever has.

you're right it doesn’t take much and I’m not sure if you’re purposely misunderstanding but I checked and there was a bin there. I’ve no way to identify if that is definitely her bin but placed at the bottom of her drive I made my best guess with the time and information I had.

I happened to speak to my neighbour a couple of weeks ago and she mentioned that she was going on holiday and her daughter was staying at home (she looks to be late 20s).

She said to me that her daughter can be a bit lazy and not put the bin out and would I mind doing it for her. I explained that I’d add it to my list but my husband was working away, I was working in the office on the day the bins were put out so I’d be doing mine quickly and I’d have a quick check of hers while the kids were getting into the car in the morning.

anyway, I see the bin sitting outside her house on the morning of bin day so I jumped in the car and went to work.

when she came back from holiday she turned up on my door step furious that her bin hadn’t been put out. Turned out it was the neighbour’s binned positioned in front of her house.

I’d dialled off a work call to answer the door to her and I saw red tbh. I asked why her jobless daughter had a problem putting the bins out when she was sitting in the house.

she stormed off and I haven’t seen her since.

tbh I do feel a bit bad but there was a bin outside the house, unmarked with no house number. Was I to rifle through the bins for signs it was hers? Go to the door at 7am to ask the daughter if it was her bin? Enter her property to check on her bins?

why can’t people just do simple tasks?

Good grief - would it really have been such a hardship to have helped a neighbour out under these circumstances? Most bins where I live only get emptied fortnightly now, and if a collection is missed in the summer, there's a good chance the bin would be revolting and maggoty after a month. If you said you would check your neighbour's bin on collection day, then I can understand why she was pissed off. Unless you've got an extraordinarily long driveway it only takes a couple of minutes to put a bin out.

But the OP didn't check - she saw a bin outside but didn't look to see if it was the neighbour's bin. Presumably if she had looked down the driveway or wherever the bins were kept, she would have seen that the neighbour's bin was still there. I think the fact that the neighbours daughter was at home is irrelevant - if the OP had told her neighbour that she wasn't willing to check that the bin had been put out, that would have been fine, but that wasn't the case. The OP agreed to check so presumably the neighbour was irritated that she hadn't done what she had agreed to do.

Good grief - would it really have been such a hardship to have helped a neighbour out under these circumstances? Most bins where I live only get emptied fortnightly now, and if a collection is missed in the summer, there's a good chance the bin would be revolting and maggoty after a month. If you said you would check your neighbour's bin on collection day, then I can understand why she was pissed off. Unless you've got an extraordinarily long driveway it only takes a couple of minutes to put a bin out.

But the OP didn't check - she saw a bin outside but didn't look to see if it was the neighbour's bin. Presumably if she had looked down the driveway or wherever the bins were kept, she would have seen that the neighbour's bin was still there. I think the fact that the neighbours daughter was at home is irrelevant - if the OP had told her neighbour that she wasn't willing to check that the bin had been put out, that would have been fine, but that wasn't the case. The OP agreed to check so presumably the neighbour was irritated that she hadn't done what she had agreed to do.

But the OP didn't check - she saw a bin outside but didn't look to see if it was the neighbour's bin. Presumably if she had looked down the driveway or wherever the bins were kept, she would have seen that the neighbour's bin was still there. I think the fact that the neighbours daughter was at home is irrelevant - if the OP had told her neighbour that she wasn't willing to check that the bin had been put out, that would have been fine, but that wasn't the case. The OP agreed to check so presumably the neighbour was irritated that she hadn't done what she had agreed to do.

But the OP didn't check - she saw a bin outside but didn't look to see if it was the neighbour's bin. Presumably if she had looked down the driveway or wherever the bins were kept, she would have seen that the neighbour's bin was still there. I think the fact that the neighbours daughter was at home is irrelevant - if the OP had told her neighbour that she wasn't willing to check that the bin had been put out, that would have been fine, but that wasn't the case. The OP agreed to check so presumably the neighbour was irritated that she hadn't done what she had agreed to do.