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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:
Chilly80 · 19/04/2026 13:28

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:18

No she wants it back eventually

Seems an even trade bike for keyboard storage

Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 13:28

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:22

I did NOT break in! What a ridiculous suggestion. I have a key.

Did you have permission to enter her house on that occasion to put your bike in there? If not - you broke in. Doesn’t matter whether you had a key or the door was unlocked.

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:22

Jollyhockeystickss · 19/04/2026 13:19

She lives in a house with lots of rooms and a garden and probably a shed but for some effed up reason broke into her sisters and put her bike in their hallway, im not surprised the husband brought the bike back, i think it was very kind of him to bring it back, it would have been put outside if it was me ,

I did NOT break in! What a ridiculous suggestion. I have a key.

OP posts:
Drpawpawspaw · 19/04/2026 13:21

We’re talking here about an OP who thought it entirely reasonable to blow out her little nephews birthday cake candles and having to post a thread about it asking if she was out of line.

snack short of a meal deal….

Dragonscaledaisy · 19/04/2026 13:20

purpleme12 · 19/04/2026 13:18

This thread will go on forever 😆

Yeah it sounds like they both own a load of junk that needs a skip to dispose of it. What a lot of stupid drama.

Jollyhockeystickss · 19/04/2026 13:19

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:30

I don’t live in a flat, I live in a house with a small hallway.

She lives in a house with lots of rooms and a garden and probably a shed but for some effed up reason broke into her sisters and put her bike in their hallway, im not surprised the husband brought the bike back, i think it was very kind of him to bring it back, it would have been put outside if it was me ,

purpleme12 · 19/04/2026 13:18

This thread will go on forever 😆

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:18

Chilly80 · 19/04/2026 13:09

Sell it then

No she wants it back eventually

OP posts:
Delphiniumandlupins · 19/04/2026 13:18

Why have you bought a bike that isn't designed to be outdoors? I don't think a few days (as you claim) is going to result in much rusting.

BudgetBuster · 19/04/2026 13:18

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:06

Yes but now she won’t take it back!

😂😂 OP you are actually hilarious

She isn't storing the keyboard at yours.. YOU BORROWED IT.

I really hope your BIL shives the poxy bike out on the road and doesn't put up with your obnoxious attitude. He'll have to get over it... no he absolutely will not have to. Stop talking such rubbish and grow up.

Delphiniumandlupins · 19/04/2026 13:15

Chilly80 · 19/04/2026 13:09

Sell it then

And buy a bike storage shed or a cover. And a lock.

Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 13:09

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:56

I borrowed it but I have my own now yet nowhere to put it and sister has nowhere to put hers so I’m stuck with it for now

Where was your sister storing it before you borrowed it?

Why did you borrow it if you were getting your own?

Why did you get your own before returning hers? Surely it would have made more sense to just keep using hers if she didn’t want it back…. Or offered to buy it off her?

It definitely changes the situation though, and if you’d put in your op that you’d asked your sister to borrow the keyboard I think you’d have had even more vote YABU. Seems a very odd thing to borrow though.

Chilly80 · 19/04/2026 13:09

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:06

Yes but now she won’t take it back!

Sell it then

purpleme12 · 19/04/2026 13:09

Ok if she doesn't want it back then she's given it to you so you can keep it or chuck it

Clarify that with her and act accordingly

outerspacepotato · 19/04/2026 13:08

viques · 19/04/2026 12:01

No! You have to be kidding? Not the bathroom grabber?

(a private message to the sister. take the bulbs out of your hallway lights, you know some people aren’t prepared to walk into places they think are spooky.)

😂

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:06

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 19/04/2026 13:01

You asked to borrow the keyboard?? Well that completely changes that.

Yes but now she won’t take it back!

OP posts:
LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 19/04/2026 13:01

You asked to borrow the keyboard?? Well that completely changes that.

Lurkingandlearning · 19/04/2026 12:59

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:11

Where exactly??

As @ZenNudist said, put it where her keyboard is in your house and put her keyboard in her hall

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:59

Delphiniumandlupins · 19/04/2026 12:58

Are you sure? What does your BiL say? Why do you think a bike will get damaged by being outdoors in "weather"?

It will rust.

and BIL will just have to get over it, it’s only a couple of days

OP posts:
Delphiniumandlupins · 19/04/2026 12:58

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:37

Bike is back at sisters until Tuesday.

Are you sure? What does your BiL say? Why do you think a bike will get damaged by being outdoors in "weather"?

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:56

Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 12:55

@AliceNotInChains you seek to have missed mine, and others, question about the keyboard. Did you give it as a Christmas gift & that’s why it’s being stored at your house? If not, how/why did it end up being stored at yours?

I borrowed it but I have my own now yet nowhere to put it and sister has nowhere to put hers so I’m stuck with it for now

OP posts:
Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 12:55

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:37

Bike is back at sisters until Tuesday.

@AliceNotInChains you seek to have missed mine, and others, question about the keyboard. Did you give it as a Christmas gift & that’s why it’s being stored at your house? If not, how/why did it end up being stored at yours?

m1ghtl1ke · 19/04/2026 12:52

DollopOfFun · 19/04/2026 12:42

It's so try hard, it's getting painful to read.

The two word updates from the op keep it going

I’ve reported it

Scarlettpixie · 19/04/2026 12:45

Why do you have her keyboard? If you don’t want it tell her to shift it.

SunConure · 19/04/2026 12:44

I try to keep a tidy uncluttered house which is not easy with a fulL
time job and kids. Clutter and crap everywhere destroys my mental health. I’d be fuming if a bike was left in my house. Absolutely fuming. Pay for storage or get a lock

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