to think that before 8am

[Empusa]

..is not a good time for some idiot from the council to be using a hedge strimmer!

What a fucking way to be woken up! Right outside our sodding bedroom window as well

I once was working in London and we had the chipper going. This women (about 50-55ish) came out and told us we were being far too fucking loud and could we turn that fucking machine off or she was going to call the police! So we told her politley that we couldn't and that we would be done in an hour or so.(it was about 12 at this point) so she gestured towards us and stormed off. She then came back about half hour later as if nothing had been said and asked us again we again said no. She then grabbed the hem of her dress and pulled right up to expsoe her naked body then walked off whist we were looking at each other to check that that really had just happened.

Your move emposa!

oops sorry Empusa

Oh dear god! How weird!

So Jackin, was she successful and are you saying this is a tactic we should employ when faced with noisy hedge trimming people?

I'm not saying I recommend it, as it was unsuccesfull but far be it from me to stop you.

Certainly something to consider. I like my sleep

I suppose it would be easier in a nighty.....

irritating, but presumably not a daily occurrence so i wouldn't worry about it. i used to live next to a scrap yard and they'd start pouring skip loads of scrap metal from a great height at half 7 every morning. sunday, bank holiday. that didnt stop for anyone. after a month i didnt even notice it anymore. maybe set yourself a strimmer noise alarm? then when they come back in 3 months you wont even notice :) helpful hat on

It's the people who try to threaten/intimidate you that are the worse. I've never come to 'fistticuffs' over it but at some point it might happen. As long as I don't work in Harlow I should be ok.

mable - my dh used to love getting jobs with the council because they were always easy days. He worked as a digger driver and would often be on site at around 7am, but if it was council work it would be a 9am start and plenty of tea breaks.

And I read The Guardian love.

Well our binmen come to collect the recycling at about 6.30 which is fine, however yesterday some idiot thought beeping his horn (right outside our bedroom window) continuously at them would make them move more quickly, now he was a fucking idiot and lucky I didn't go out and chuck a bin through his windscreen as he woke my ds up, before I had a chance to get dressed!

rhubarb, if you do in fact read the Guardian, you should know that one person's experience doesn't always make a good basis for sweeping generalisations.

It does when you put that together with the fact that I worked for the council for years and still have friends who work there.

But then I didn't call him a fucking idiot did I? I'm just saying that they generally start late and have lots of tea breaks, so her finding one who starts work at 7.30am is very good and he should be praised for his work ethic.

We all generalise mable and this is just a bit of a fun thread so chill, no-one is making any huge political statement here.

Nah, council employees have to buy their own tea (and coffee and biscuits), so don't spend all day on tea breaks. Plus if they start late, they'll finish late. Full-time employees have to do a 37.5 hour week (not including lunch breaks), so they've still to complete the hours . . . but your late starters could have been part-timers (on a part-time wage).