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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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JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 28/06/2021 21:30

@NigellaSeed

Does DH know he is now a MN hero?
He does, he’s poured himself a whiskey.
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KitKat1985 · 28/06/2021 21:30

That is epic cheeky-fuckery. Well done to your DH on his glorious victory. Grin

NigellaSeed · 28/06/2021 21:30

Does DH know he is now a MN hero?

MrsMackesy · 28/06/2021 21:29

Say no more, OP. Like Thatcher, he'll be coming after your milk next.

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JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 28/06/2021 21:27

@MrsMackesy

This is just the sort of sneaky thing Matt Hancock would do - are they related?
No, but he does have a Margaret Thatcher commemorative plate in a cabinet in his dining room... she glares at me through my living room window the hag.
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AmyandPhilipfan · 28/06/2021 21:26

Ah, a secondary teacher. Often very good at taking cheeky so and sos down a peg or two if they dare to answer back! 😆

My husband is very possessive of our bin. It was often taken by a neighbour where we used to live and he would lie in wait to nab it back as soon as it was emptied the next week! Once, when he couldn’t track it down he wrote in big chalk letters ‘give me back my bin you bin thief!’ on our back wall! Fortunately since we moved we don’t seem to have the same bother!

SallyCinnabon · 28/06/2021 21:26

The actual entitlement and audacity to try and justify it too! What absolute disgraces!

Guavaf1sh · 28/06/2021 21:26

They should make this into a film

Sylvan92 · 28/06/2021 21:25

@JackieWeaversAuthorityHere

DH is home WITH THE BIN. Victory is ours!

Apparently he made a half hearted attempt to argue that ‘wheelie bins are council property not personal property’ but apparently DH asked whether that meant he was allowed to steal our cleaned bin and he said ‘its not stealing, it’s not your bin!’ Hmm

When they were standing outside, DH was asking them to remove their bag of rubbish from the bin so he could take it back. Binstealers wife said DH was being petty and to just leave the bins how they were. DH said he’d be happy to, but she needed to pay us the £9 for the bin cleaning or come over with her marigolds and get scrubbing Grin

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

Omg this is hilarious and bonkers all at the same time.
billy1966 · 28/06/2021 21:23

@BlueLobelia

One of my colleagues gets her wheelie bin cleaned every month- but it costs £42 apparently. I thought that was mega nuts.

Well done OP and OP DH.

(Now if you could sort out the CF who parks half blocking my drive in her fucking BMW from Tuesdays-Saturdays please.... )

Get really sticky stickers and plaster her car windscreen around the edges, with "don't park here" written on them. Very annoying to remove.

I know of someone who did this whose mother was constantly being blocked in by parents collecting children near a school. She was getting attitude from them when asked to move their tanks.
It worked.

MrsMackesy · 28/06/2021 21:23

This is just the sort of sneaky thing Matt Hancock would do - are they related?

Iloveacurry · 28/06/2021 21:23

Brilliant!

Hollywolly1 · 28/06/2021 21:23

The neighbour was a real dirt bag to do that

Percypigg · 28/06/2021 21:22

I adore this thread. You and your DH are fab.

theemmadilemma · 28/06/2021 21:21

😂 OMFG. How cheeky.

BlankTimes · 28/06/2021 21:20

Yay for OP's DH!!!

Don't forget to paint your bin number underneath your bin too, then no matter if CFCouncillor even tries to do the number-move again, you'll have your proof.

IdblowJonSnow · 28/06/2021 21:20

Paint a massive nob on his bin.
CF.

EL8888 · 28/06/2021 21:19

Nice one, great update. Good on Mr Weaver!

billy1966 · 28/06/2021 21:19

@JackieWeaversAuthorityHere

DH currently on the phone to my mum and dad recounting his glorious victory... so that will be the entire town fully informed by tomorrow breakfast. You don’t need the local papers round here, it’s one of those everybody knows everybody sort of places.
He'll be dining out on that story for the rest of the year. Hilarious.

Really shows the character of the man. CF.

Si1ver · 28/06/2021 21:17

Bloody fantastic. Excellent outcome.

QueenBee52 · 28/06/2021 21:17

this is top drawer 🤣

pure quality lol 🎉🌸💕

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JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 28/06/2021 21:17

@BlueLobelia

One of my colleagues gets her wheelie bin cleaned every month- but it costs £42 apparently. I thought that was mega nuts.

Well done OP and OP DH.

(Now if you could sort out the CF who parks half blocking my drive in her fucking BMW from Tuesdays-Saturdays please.... )

I’ll send him round!
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godmum56 · 28/06/2021 21:16

@JackieWeaversAuthorityHere

DH currently on the phone to my mum and dad recounting his glorious victory... so that will be the entire town fully informed by tomorrow breakfast. You don’t need the local papers round here, it’s one of those everybody knows everybody sort of places.
he deserves to!
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JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 28/06/2021 21:16

@viques

Great update. Never doubt that teaching doesn’t instil you with transferable skills!

A question here for Councillor DirtyBinTricks, if the bins belong to the council why do you go to the trouble of putting your house number on yours?( And on other people’s bins. )

If nothing else it gives you a good strong gallows humour Grin
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godmum56 · 28/06/2021 21:15

@LittleMissNaice

I think you need to email the chair and clarify council policy regarding bin ownership ...
mega!
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