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AIBU - bin lorry nightmare

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Fedupwithteenagers24 · 23/12/2024 08:21

Usually our bins are collected in the afternoon, today they turned up at 7am to collect! We hadn't put them out yet and it was too late to catch them.
Husband is beside himself, had not stopped going in about it. He is considering calling council to complain. It is now being referred to as the great bin disaster of xmas 2024.

I think I may have to ltb - AIBU?

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MauveGoose · 23/12/2024 16:13

What a privilege, for this to be his greatest concern 😅

NewNameNoelle · 23/12/2024 15:51

6.30am for us. They came at 6.28am once and I missed them. I complained and they came the next day to collect.

Your poor DH, this would ruin my day too, as will the subsequent tip run. Hate going to the tip.

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 15:50

Sparklyhat · 23/12/2024 14:43

Everyone keeps suggesting the tip but this isn't so easy! We missed our bin once. Took a couple of bin bags to the tip and the man almost refused us! Said they can't take bags of mixed rubbish like that it all needs to be sorted and put in the right bit! Even though it's not recycling Confused

That's mad. If it's all non-recyclable, the landfill skip IS the single right place for the lot.

sanityisamyth · 23/12/2024 15:50

LadyDanburysHat · 23/12/2024 08:23

Bins should be out by 7am as that is when collections can start. He needs to get a grip. It is a pain, one of our collections started coming really early after being much later. We sucked up a missed collection. Obviously not ideal before Christmas, but you would not BU to ltb.

This.

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 15:49

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 12:11

We have a vicious neighbour who is like this. She refuses to take it just to the end of her drive, and if they don't notice, she hollers at them from her doorway to come and fetch it. And put it back!! If they refuse or ignore her, she must complain, as they always come back later in the week and just do hers.

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Does she not understand the concept of a kerbside collection? Imagine how much longer it would take if the bin men had to collect aand then return everybody's bins - then people would still complain that they put it back in the wrong place or something.

It's very selfish expecting the bin men to give you special treatment, unless of course you're disabled or otherwise struggle to do it yourself and have registered this need with the council.

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 15:45

Kindling1970 · 23/12/2024 10:03

I am very jealous of your husband when missing a bun collection is his biggest concern in life! He’s really done well for himself.

To be fair, I'd be heartbroken too if I got to the bakery, all excited, and they'd closed early Grin

Sparklyhat · 23/12/2024 14:43

Everyone keeps suggesting the tip but this isn't so easy! We missed our bin once. Took a couple of bin bags to the tip and the man almost refused us! Said they can't take bags of mixed rubbish like that it all needs to be sorted and put in the right bit! Even though it's not recycling Confused

FeegleFrenzy · 23/12/2024 12:32

tediber · 23/12/2024 09:44

Just call and say they didn't take it but it was at the kerbside. They can't prove it. Just hope they come back!

Last time my council only emptied half the bin and it wasn't stuck but they refused to come back for the first time ever. They were telling me to take it to the tip myself 😮 I put in a complaint and they ignored it 😂

No way would I do that and risk getting people in trouble. Even if they believed you and came back, ultimately that’s tax payer’s money which is being wasted because someone didn’t get their bin out in time!

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 12:11

LasagneLasagne · 23/12/2024 09:33

Off on a tangent here...

We have to wheel our bins to the entrance of our cul de sac in order for them to be collected - they won't empty them otherwise. Our neighbour, however, through many years of complaints and dogged refusal to do this, has her bin (and only hers) collected from outside her house. One of the bin guys has to walk down, collect the bin and empty it. If they forget to return it outside her house, it unleashes a further torrent of complaints.

That said, we actually get on quite well with her 😌

We have a vicious neighbour who is like this. She refuses to take it just to the end of her drive, and if they don't notice, she hollers at them from her doorway to come and fetch it. And put it back!! If they refuse or ignore her, she must complain, as they always come back later in the week and just do hers.

Topseyt123 · 23/12/2024 11:10

Fedupwithteenagers24 · 23/12/2024 09:07

Thank you for all the comments, he wishes me to say this is the first time EVER he has not put them out them night before. He has recovered his good humour. We won't bother the Council as it is entirely our ( his) fault.
But I forsee that he will be going on about this every Christmas forever more

Call it bin-gate! 🤣

HelloCanYouHearMe · 23/12/2024 10:54

Our council also states that bins need to be kerbside by 7am.

Although the fact that our bin men aren't on strike this year is a Christmas miracle in itself

FrannieY · 23/12/2024 10:16

Your husband would hate it here, the binmen change our collection days to suit themselves and don't bother to tell either the householders or the council. They also decided to change collections to fortnightly, despite the fact they should be weekly – and the council weren't aware.

Christmas Eve trip to the local tip for your husband should help reset him after today's soothing glasses of Bailey's

tediber · 23/12/2024 10:06

@UndermyShoeJoe No way that's crazy but supposed they may be able to prove it then 😂

Kindling1970 · 23/12/2024 10:03

I am very jealous of your husband when missing a bun collection is his biggest concern in life! He’s really done well for himself.

Nothatgingerpirate · 23/12/2024 09:52

It's good to put bins out the previous night and keep up with this stuff, it's not gonna get better soon.
Sorry.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 23/12/2024 09:48

whenemmafallsinlove · 23/12/2024 08:34

I feel your pain. My dh would have to be sedated if that happened. He also loves going to the tip. He's taking some cardboard today. His little face is so excited. It's such a special time of year!

🤣

PrincessHoneysuckle · 23/12/2024 09:47

I always put them out the night before.

UndermyShoeJoe · 23/12/2024 09:47

tediber · 23/12/2024 09:44

Just call and say they didn't take it but it was at the kerbside. They can't prove it. Just hope they come back!

Last time my council only emptied half the bin and it wasn't stuck but they refused to come back for the first time ever. They were telling me to take it to the tip myself 😮 I put in a complaint and they ignored it 😂

Actually some councils have cameras on their bin lorry’s ours certainly do which is why they cannot take extra general rubbish because if someone reports it they check the cameras and get in trouble.

tediber · 23/12/2024 09:44

Just call and say they didn't take it but it was at the kerbside. They can't prove it. Just hope they come back!

Last time my council only emptied half the bin and it wasn't stuck but they refused to come back for the first time ever. They were telling me to take it to the tip myself 😮 I put in a complaint and they ignored it 😂

BettyBardMacDonald · 23/12/2024 09:43

"Run of shame" 🤣🤣🤣

Been there in my old pink dressing gown...

YouveGotAFastCar · 23/12/2024 09:41

LadyDanburysHat · 23/12/2024 08:23

Bins should be out by 7am as that is when collections can start. He needs to get a grip. It is a pain, one of our collections started coming really early after being much later. We sucked up a missed collection. Obviously not ideal before Christmas, but you would not BU to ltb.

This must vary - ours are always collected and the bins back by 6am.

andHelenknowsimmiserablenow · 23/12/2024 09:40

Ours all have to go out the night before as they can collect as early as 6am.
They are very reliable but sling the bins back right in front of the drive, so if i am returning from work I have to leave the car in the middle of the road (no parking on street) run and get the bin out of the way, so I can park on the drive. They don't do that to everyone though, so I think they just hate me 😁

ThatsNotMyTeen · 23/12/2024 09:39

Ours have to be out by 7 am and at this time of year collections change so it’s on you. However YANBU to LTB for him going on about it

Latenightreader · 23/12/2024 09:38

Sinkintotheswamp · 23/12/2024 08:28

They won't come back as it's your fault I'm afraid.

I "missed" a collection once and dashed it out to the binmen who were tipping their wheelie bins into the lorry, I was very apologetic. The supervisor bit my head off and refused to take mine and made me cry. Asshole.

I’ve done the run of shame with a jumper over pyjamas a few times and our binmen are always lovely about it - sorry you’ve had meanies! There was one memorable occasion when I dashed out having just washed my hair so it was in a huge damp bushy tangle half over my face and one of the binmen looked hard at me and said “[name]?” His sister was in my class about 35 years ago, although we were never friends. Goodness knows how he recognised me after all that time, especially looking like that! Just a tad mortifying on a Wednesday morning…

brunettemic · 23/12/2024 09:35

So the bins were collected on the day they’re meant to be collected and somehow this is the councils fault? Erm 🤔