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AIBU to expect my sister to store my bike briefly?

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AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:08

On Friday I bought a new bike off marketplace. I currently have my old bike in my hallway as I need to clean it up and sell it so I took my new bike to my sisters and popped it in the hallway. She was at work so I sent her a message saying I’ve temporarily put a bike in her hallway and it will be moved in about a weeks time. Didn’t hear anything back until evening when she messaged telling me to come and move the bike. I told her I had nowhere to put it until I sell my old one but reassured her I’d be cleaning it up over weekend and will list it on Monday.

Yesterday morning she sent another message saying her husband was fuming about the bike saying it was “ruining their hallway” and he wanted it moved. I said it will be moved asap.

This morning I got up to see my new bike sat in front of my house on the driveway. I’ve messaged her and she said she didn’t do it, her husband did. So I said I’m bringing it back as it can’t stay on the driveway because obviously it will get stolen!! Not to mention weather damage. She replied saying not to bring it back or her DH will simply leave it in the street.

Im fuming because there has been many times they have stored stuff at my house and I’ve had to just work around it.

Anyway they have a keyboard at my house and I’ve told her either the bike gets stored there for a few days max or the keyboard goes to live outside. She’s not replied yet.

AIBU?? I could get my bike sold by Wednesday.

OP posts:
AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:44

Desmodici · 19/04/2026 08:43

So you have a garden that's safe enough to store garden furniture without it getting stolen, but you can't store your old bike in that same garden for a few days?

Weather damage plus a bike is easier to steal than a load of garden furniture !

OP posts:
Thehop · 19/04/2026 08:43

It was a piss take just leaving it in their hallway

they're CF to leave a keyboard at yours, leave it on their doorstep today!!!!

BudgetBuster · 19/04/2026 08:43

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:42

Yeah they had a huge row over it as he didn’t want it in the first place. He refused to help her move it to their house so I helped her when she sorted her garden out.

No wonder he doesn't fucking like you 😂

EmeraldShamrock000 · 19/04/2026 08:43

Get a grip. If she had room in her shed, you could have asked her first. Who wants a bike in their hallway, one they don’t even own.

Desmodici · 19/04/2026 08:43

So you have a garden that's safe enough to store garden furniture without it getting stolen, but you can't store your old bike in that same garden for a few days?

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:42

euff · 19/04/2026 08:39

I would have said you were rude and very unreasonable until you said your sister has done same to you with various things. But obviously she can’t do that anymore as they haven’t appreciated it and don’t want to reciprocate. Is your BIL aware that your sister has dumped garden furniture in your garden etc?

Yeah they had a huge row over it as he didn’t want it in the first place. He refused to help her move it to their house so I helped her when she sorted her garden out.

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Laserwho · 19/04/2026 08:41

When my kids where young my hallway was used for my pram and other child related things. You are basically using space she needs.

MeetMeOnTheCorner · 19/04/2026 08:41

If you don’t have space for the new bike, you should not have bought it! Sell the old one first. Have you lost your common sense?

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 19/04/2026 08:40

tnorfotkcab · 19/04/2026 08:15

Christ on a bike is more fitting, Surely? 😂

Ugh. You’re right! Disappointed in myself.

Nursemumma92 · 19/04/2026 08:40

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:29

What, for buying a bike and expecting my sister to help me store it for a few days? Yeah ok 🙄

Yeah you can't just dump an adult size bike in someone's hallway for a WEEK without asking! That's batshit. I know she's stored other things at yours and maybe that needs to stop but presumably she asked before she brought a piano sized keyboard into your living room?

Whaleandsnail6 · 19/04/2026 08:39

You are being very unreasonable.

Put the bike somewhere in your own property. Its temporary so put it anywhere... bedroom? Lounge? Kitchen?

And stop storing her stuff if you don't want to.

Each use your own property to store your own belongings and there won't be any further problem

euff · 19/04/2026 08:39

I would have said you were rude and very unreasonable until you said your sister has done same to you with various things. But obviously she can’t do that anymore as they haven’t appreciated it and don’t want to reciprocate. Is your BIL aware that your sister has dumped garden furniture in your garden etc?

Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 08:38

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:29

What, for buying a bike and expecting my sister to help me store it for a few days? Yeah ok 🙄

No, because of your posting history.

Funny how you never, ever mention in your posts that you and your sister have a history where you clearly despise her.

Thatcannotberight · 19/04/2026 08:38

You put their keyboard on your drive. That's a safe place to store it, right? That's where they thought your bike should be ok. Then you put your bike where the keyboard was. Job done.

Rainbowdottie · 19/04/2026 08:38

If your sister lived alone then I can see you’ve got a case to thrash out between the two of you as to why it can’t be stored there. But she doesn’t, there’s someone else to consider.
personally I wouldn’t be bothered by the bike just for a week but will it be a week? What if the bike isn’t sold? How big is their hallway? I’m imagining a very small narrow Victorian hallway and the bike is making it awkward to pass, get by, get in and out?

I dunno, I’m very laid back, I’d probably be like whatever 🤷‍♀️ for just a week especially if you’d helped me out too…equally I don’t think we can just expect people to be ok with stuff, not ask, not take into consideration the others living there etc

Barrenfieldoffucks · 19/04/2026 08:38

A load of garden furniture is totally different to a fucking bike in the hallway. One is out of the way unless you choose to go in the garden, the other is absolutely in the way!

Why can't you put one of your bikes in said garden like a normal person?

Laserwho · 19/04/2026 08:37

You don't leave your bike in someone's hallway esp when they have small children who could be hurt by it. Do you really have so little sense?

OriginalSkang · 19/04/2026 08:35

There is no possible way someone would continue to post ridiculous threads about their sister when they get this same response every time if they were a genuine poster

Delete away, mods. Sorry

Wolfiefan · 19/04/2026 08:33

You ask.
You don’t let yourself into their house and block the hall with your bike.

Laserwho · 19/04/2026 08:33

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:28

No I won’t be using it until next weekend

Then maybe you should have got it after the sold the old bike

cloudsinmycopy · 19/04/2026 08:33

Reverse.

tanstaafl · 19/04/2026 08:33

Take the front wheel off the new bike and store it in front of the piano.
Tell sister to send her husband around to pick up the piano.

If you have a car, store bike in the car; take front wheel off , put back seats down.

Put towels in the bath, take front wheel off, store bike there.

Nowvoyager99 · 19/04/2026 08:33

OnlyMabelInTheBuilding · 19/04/2026 08:26

Oh god it’s you. The candle-blowing bathroom grabber. Now also a bike dumper.

Ahh! This all makes sense now.

BudgetBuster · 19/04/2026 08:32

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:29

What, for buying a bike and expecting my sister to help me store it for a few days? Yeah ok 🙄

Yes..
Why do you EXPECT things?

You shouldn't have bought a bike you cannot store.

Also your threads on here have been nothing but rude and entitled against your sister and her family so I can see why they might not be the most forthcoming.

NoYouCantComeToTheWedding · 19/04/2026 08:32

Why did you buy another bike if you had nowhere to put it? It should have been a one out, one in situation.