Aibu to have reported the dustbin lorry to the council?

Tell us more please, ‘done numerous to us’ and ‘they can dictate what we can and can’t do’

But yes, I can’t see why what you’ve done will inconvenience your neighbours, it will inconvenience some hardworking refuse workers at a time when their physically demanding service they provide to you is hardest. Please come back and tell us how you bin emptying goes over coming weeks 😁

Are you a little hard of thinking? 😁

Strangely, I have never had any trouble from elderly neighbours and now that I am over 70 I haven't started going round annoying people.

They can't do that. If a bin isn't collected, unless there's a valid reason the bin men have to come back the next working day to empty it. They do in my area anyway, I've had to report a missed bin collection.

Once again I apologise if I offended anyone.

An apology is only sincere when you recognise you have offended someone. The word if suggests otherwise.

I'm sure you feel fed up and wanted to push back. But actually, would being direct rather than reporting him to the council for something which had no affect on you at all, have been a better move?

Well.said. There's a lot of hypocrisy from some, along with the pile on. The parking of the bin lorry seems deliberate and vindictive. Almost as if it was planned in advance.

@Bumpyroads has acknowledged she may have overreacted but given the drip, drip of passive aggressiveness from her neighbour she had probably finally reached her breaking point.
How many were in the bin crew OP? Glad to see that so many on here have no problem with a bin crew taking a 40 minute break during their working day. A break which was clearly not legit, given their depots response. An unscheduled break which was subsidised directly through the already very expensive council tax.

The replies say differently as someone else has pointed out upthread

Yeah, this struck me too. I’ll be 60 in a few months. Time to start pissing off the neighbours for no good reason, seeing as how I’m so stuck in my ways. Don’t want to disappoint them😆

No point being petty. You don’t like each other. Leave it at that. I wouldn’t have grassed up the bin men. They’re not the ones you’ve got the beef with.

The majority - 67% by vote at the time of typing - say she's not being unreasonable, though.

I think you may have started a bigger conflict, completely unnecessarily, with someone who lives right next door and already didn't like you.

Quite silly I think.

Yeah, that's the option isn't it? I had a Severn Trent van parked at the end of my drive for 2 hours the other evening. If I'd wanted to go out, I'd have had to find the workmen and ask them to shift. This is just something that happens from time to time, an everyday frustration. I don't have an axe to grind with anyone who works for Severn Trent luckily for them...

I don’t get why you’ve posted on “am I being unreasonable” if you’re just going to argue against the majority who are telling you you are? why do you need other people’s opinions if you’re confident you’ve done the right thing?

If I was you I’d be crossing my fingers and toes next time you do something that irritates them, as you may find that results in your own workplace(es) getting a call. That’s exactly how these things escalate.

So if there had been an emergency, the OP shluld go and knock on the door of an antagonistic neighbour, just so she could leave her house?

Their assumption was correct! You did know where they were.
You were being small minded, petty and spiteful and it will come back to bite you in the arse!

Nah op I don't blame you they seem like entitled cunts.
They kind of sound like our elderly neighbours actually, seem to think they own the street, always curtain twitching and gossiping but they can do whatever they like.
We tiptoed around them for 3 years until they started chatting shit about us, I gave it back (petty but satisfying) and they've backed off and idgaf now.. She doesn't knock our door anymore.
Irrelevant but anyway, yes if someone blocked my driveway for 40 minutes I would have also complained yanbu.

So not deliberately to annoy you then.

You should have asked them to move and not have chosen the nuclear option of phoning their workplace.

Don't be surprised if your neighbours retaliate. What you did was spiteful.

I think you've been really petty.

"I don't understand why they dislike us so much ".

Well at least you now know one reason why they dislike you so much.
The positioning of the lorry didn't inconvenience you on this occasion so you should have left them to it and minded your own business.
I think I understand why you are disliked even if you don't see it!

Hope you're not planning to sell your house any time soon, as you have now formalised a once petty dispute between you and your neighbours. Would it have occurred to you to report if if your neighbour did any other job? I think not

@CaptainMyCaptain Did you miss where I said I rang the number on the van but got no answer and with 93 flats it would take ages to knock on the door of every single one to find out where the builder is?

Regardless, why should I have to? There were dozens of spaces. There's no need to block people in. He was still there when I got back three hours later, he wasn't just dropping something off quickly then going.