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To go round?

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JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 28/06/2021 19:55

We pay a company to clean our bins once a month on bin day. I’m not usually home when they come, but I’m off work today And happened to be in the kitchen. I watched my next door neighbour wait until the cleaner left, take the house number sticker off my bin and put it on his, then swap our bin for his so he had the cleaned bin and I had a non-cleaned one.

He was back in his house before I had time to contain the dog and go outside but now DH is home, WIBU to go round and ask for my bin back??

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LittleMissNaice · 28/06/2021 22:19

We’ve barely spoken to NDN’s but we were warned when we moved in to keep our drive weed-free and our windows clean because NDN would be round to complain if he thought the street was looking ‘shabby’. He’s THAT guy.

Wait til next time he has his windows cleaned, then sneak round ...

skodadoda · 28/06/2021 22:18

OP, please can we have a picture of your dog 😄

PatsyJStone · 28/06/2021 22:16

Sorry I must say it’s £3.50 a bin clean here...

Well done to hubby!

emmetgirl · 28/06/2021 22:16

Blimey that's a bloody nerve!

Whybot · 28/06/2021 22:13

Paint your no on bin ?

Orchidflower1 · 28/06/2021 22:11

Omg @JackieWeaversAuthorityHere best thread of the day. Actually no of the week!

Your dh is AWESOME!!!

@mnhq I nominate for classics. Bin gate should hence forth usurp penis beaker as the most talked about classic dh thread!

Blonchette · 28/06/2021 22:11

And you should probably get some bin-oculars to watch out for future bin thievery.

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 28/06/2021 22:10

@JackieWeaversAuthorityHere

We pay a company to clean our bins once a month on bin day. I’m not usually home when they come, but I’m off work today And happened to be in the kitchen. I watched my next door neighbour wait until the cleaner left, take the house number sticker off my bin and put it on his, then swap our bin for his so he had the cleaned bin and I had a non-cleaned one.

He was back in his house before I had time to contain the dog and go outside but now DH is home, WIBU to go round and ask for my bin back??

YWBU to go and ask for the bin back.

What you need to do is wait until it's dark/very early hours, go and get your bin but at the same time, put any bags from cleaning up after the dog in his manky one.

Blonchette · 28/06/2021 22:10

I think I’m spelling humongous wrong.

Anyway, if you don’t like the petition idea, how about a dirty protest …

Blonchette · 28/06/2021 22:09

Go round all the neighbours asking them to sign a petition protesting about Mr Bin-Thief’s shabby bin. And post it, when signed with a humongous number of signatures, through Mr and Mrs Bin-Thief’s door.

Lorw · 28/06/2021 22:07

@JackieWeaversAuthorityHere

I’ve had a look. DH and bin stealer plus bin stealers wife are standing by the bins. Bin is open. DH has his teacher face on (he’s a secondary school teacher). Can’t see bin stealers face but bin stealers wife’s eyebrows are so far up her forehead they’re going to take off in a minute.
Absolutely dying at the wife’s eyebrow comment OP Grin

Thank you for the very much needed laugh!

Hugoslavia · 28/06/2021 22:07

Just make sure that, once you've painted your house number on your bin, you sneak out at night and poor some prawn juice into the bottom of his!

MrsMackesy · 28/06/2021 22:05

He simply can't get away with not being challenged about the sticker swap part.

He also needs to be told that his dirty bin is making the street look 'shabby'.

BlankTimes · 28/06/2021 22:01

we were warned when we moved in to keep our drive weed-free and our windows clean because NDN would be round to complain if he thought the street was looking ‘shabby’. He’s THAT guy

Oh the temptation ... Wink

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JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 28/06/2021 21:58

@GreyhoundG1rl

Why did you watch him do it?! I'd have been out there at the speed of light.
I was still in my pyjamas Blush I also have to sort the dog before I leave the house otherwise he panics and eats things he shouldn’t. I once went out to get a parcel that was left at the end of the drive and came back to 2 missing kitchen cupboard doors. He’s a rescue and a very good boy who makes poor life choices.
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JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 28/06/2021 21:53

DH’s retelling is getting more and more elaborate each time, but I don’t think he mentioned the stickers! DH says he turned up at the door, imposter-bin in hand and said ‘I think you’ve taken something that doesn’t belong to you’, at which point NDN launched into ‘well I think you’ll find it doesn’t belong to you either, bins are council property’, then DH said ‘so that means you can just steal our bin then does it?’ and it went on from there.

They ended up by the bins because DH said ‘I’ll be taking our bin back’ and that’s when NDN’s wife came out and said he wasn’t to go through the gate to get the bin. So DH went anyway and they both followed him.

NDN also warned DH not to scratch his car on his way past with the bin because if he did, he’d be paying for it Confused

We’ve barely spoken to NDN’s but we were warned when we moved in to keep our drive weed-free and our windows clean because NDN would be round to complain if he thought the street was looking ‘shabby’. He’s THAT guy.

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SallyCinnabon · 28/06/2021 21:50

@GreyhoundG1rl

Why did you watch him do it?! I'd have been out there at the speed of light.
Me too, with my phone, recording this local councillor 🤭
Blonchette · 28/06/2021 21:49

I can’t believe Mrs BinThief had the nerve to call your (amazing incredible heroic) dh petty. How did she categorise Mr BinThief’s bin-napping I wonder? As Hunter-gatherer behaviour perhaps?

As an aside, we get our bin cleaned once a month and have done for years - it costs something like £3 a clean. Wonder what the people who pay £24 a clean are getting for their money that we’re not.

MadisonAvenue · 28/06/2021 21:43

Your husband is now a MN legend!

I noticed our freshly cleaned bin had disappeared recently after the bin cleaners had done their thing. I looked on our security camera and it showed our WFH neighbour walk past our drive on his way back from the shop, take our bin and wheel it along the footpath and down his drive, going past his own bin in the process, to by his back gate, then walk back up his drive and past his own bin again to get to his front door.
I was straight back out to reclaim it.
I don’t think he was being a CF, he’s just a bit dopey.

GreyhoundG1rl · 28/06/2021 21:40

Why did you watch him do it?! I'd have been out there at the speed of light.

sfeirical · 28/06/2021 21:39

@Schrutesbeets

Give that man a blow job! 👏🏼

Ew.

BumbleFlump · 28/06/2021 21:38

My bins haven’t been cleaned in nearly 15 years ... in fact one of them even longer because it came with the house 😱

MrsMackesy · 28/06/2021 21:37

@MrsMackesy

What did he say about swapping the stickers over - did DH challenge him about that bit?
Sorry but I need to know the answer to this @JackieWeaversAuthorityHere
2018SoFarSoGreat · 28/06/2021 21:35

Raising my coffee cup to your lovely DH. What a man. A man among men!! Don't both putting your name OR number on your bin. Just put a picture of DHtheBravest on the lid AND the body. That should do the trick :)

Newestname001 · 28/06/2021 21:34

@JackieWeaversAuthorityHere

I love that man I do. He’s extremely pleased with himself and I’ve not seen him this cock sure for years!
So do I now!!

Am now off to check out local bin cleaning services. 🌹