Aibu to have reported the dustbin lorry to the council?

No one has said you weren’t allowed an opinion.

No one said they should have parked across her drive though. Just that it could have been dealt with better.

Op admitted themselves that they were spiteful, petty, snapped back and were unreasonable and probably allowed their dislike for their neighbour to cloud their judgement and subsequent actions.

For me, spiteful, retaliatory and petty is the same as nasty. So not only nasty but petty, spiteful, unnecessary and retaliatory.

She wants to get back at her neighbour? Great. Have at it. No need to be nasty to others in order to do that though.

Are you quite alright?oo

You offered your opinion and I offered mine!

Where did I say you weren’t allowed an opinion?

Yippydooda we can but have a differing opinion !

Yippey DooDa, good for you, I don't and I am allowed my opinion and the OP has asked for opinions so now she has a variety and ultimately she makes her own mind up, but I agree that parking the lorry across her drive was unreasonable.

I’ve read all the posts and I agree with @adragoncalledaudrey.

Lots of changes in story, but ultimately OP doesn’t want anyone to say she is BU!

Well I have read the same post and I don't see if from that perspective at all.

I didn't only do it to be nasty

Au contraire…

Telling tales I guess was a build up of frustration of them constantly moaning about us and them swanning about like angels.
Don't think they done it to piss me off but to go round for a cuppa on their shift.

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I think my point is they have been petty about countless things with us and I finally broke and was petty back.

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This is the first time we have been petty I am not proud however they have been petty many times in the past and we have not retaliated.

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So yes I agree with others I was unreasonable but until you've had problems with neighbours it is hard to understand how It gets to you.

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However if they are going to act like toddlers I will of course eventually snap back like I did
And whilst we're acting like toddlers "they started it"

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And in future I will probably think more carefully before I act, I was at my wits end with their shit, and took it out on the wrong people. I would now say yes our neighbour disagreements did affect my decision making.

Perhaps you didn’t only do it to be nasty.

This suggests otherwise. I would understand if you had needed out of your drive. But you didn’t.

It might well be that it wasn’t only to be nasty and of course petty - but also to give a big fuck you to your neighbour. I’m only going from your posts.

My eyes are old though so what do I know?

Oh-they’re 60+? They’re definitely in the wrong then.

I didn't only do it to be nasty. If it was another person/company I would have reported it if they were not with their vehicle or unloading/loading.
The added thing is that its pissed off the neighbours but I dont think that should mean I should be scared to report it.
They now have a taster of all the pissy things they done to us I guess.
Are people saying I should of let them park their just because they are our neighbour/friends of the neighbours? I have no loyalty to our neighbours and we are not friends so why would I?

None of our plants overhang their gardens the leaves blow in the wind. Because, you know, its outside. They want their garden to be concrete without any dirt, which is unreasonable to expect me to do the same just to please them.
Other neighbour have chickens in fact the ones over the street are probably closer to their house than ours were at the end of our garden.

Why should I have to go to theirs and knock when they could have just parked elsewhere?
They couldn't be bothered to walk a few meters from a more sensible parking spot but its fine for me the walk round theirs and ask?

I have a hidden disability they may or may not know about. But obviously I shouldn't mention this as dont want to discriminate as I did with age.

No, and this is not what this is about, you are diverting the issue, this is about the fact that instead of choosing to park lawfully in a proper parking space or if they had to block a drive, why not the drive of the people they had called in on instead of blocking a third parties drive i.e the OP's.

The dustbin men being on an unauthorised break had nothing to do with the complaint the OP made to the council, it was the fact that the lorry blocked their drive. When the OP rang to make the complaint that is when it was discovered they were on an unauthorised break because they had been there for 40mins.

If the bin men didn't want to create an issue, they shouldn't have blocked the drive and no one would have been any the wiser about the extended and unauthorised break. That is their problem and not the OP's.

No you wasn’t petty you were out and out nasty. You have potentially put their jobs at risk because they are friends with your neighbour who you don’t like. Good job I’m not your neighbour because I’d be making your life very miserable from now on.

Are you seriously saying you've never taken an extra break? Or had 10 minutes when you shouldn't? I think most people have.

Bit of back story us and our next door neighbours quietly dislike each other. Nobody has really said anything but I know we both annoy each other from what is said about the street. They moan about us, things we do etc.

Recently they have been playing loud music in the garden at the weekends in a passive aggressive way. This started when they complained about our chickens being noisy ( we have rehomed the chickens because of this but thats another story) the reason I'm saying all of this is because in general I am just in a bad mood about our neighbours and don't know if this has tainted my reaction.

So next door neighbour is a bin man, he wasn't at work.
Bin lorry come and parks up across my drive . Workmen get out and go in neighbours house/garden for 40 minutes having a drink and break. All this time I was unable to get off or access my drive. There was a bin lorry parked unattended across it.

So husband rings to complain to the council. They were confused as on their tracker the lorry was supposedly elsewhere. They also agreed 40minutes was excessive but said they must have been emptying bins? No they were having a cuppa at my neighbours! Council are going to investigate, I suspect they were taking unauthorised breaks and turning the tracker off.. maybe.

Anyway the reason this has also annoyed me so much is our neighbours have lived hear 30+ years and act like they own the street. Complain about anything we do (leaves from our trees fall in their garden for example.) They are 60+ and set in their ways and we are a young family. Tbh I just dont think they like us, we normally don't rise to it and smile and wave etc. But this time I had had enough and complained.

Aibu? And have we just started ww3?

Are you only capable of mimicking me rather than make a point?

Anyway, I'm off. Have at it.

Ahh if only OP hadn’t fallen out with her neighbours… 🤷‍♀️

Ah, if only they'd parked in a proper space. All of this could have been so easily avoided.

Fair enough, but OP reported them to get at the neighbours, she’s admitted that!

All I know is, if I parked across a stranger's drive I wouldn't be surprised if they were pissed off. It's shitty.

You think they parked across their drive for badness…. Are you ok?