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Original poster

My trug is filled with concrete

37 replies

CruCru · 28/02/2015 16:28

We've been having some ongoing building work done. A few things have been lost or broken and we've shrugged and got on with it.

After Christmas I bought myself a trug (gardening basket to put tools / cuttings etc in) and left it in the garage. I've just gone to get it to find it's filled with concrete.

AIBU to be really annoyed? I never even used it and now it's spoiled.

OP posts:
gallicgirl · 28/02/2015 16:32

YANBU

Tell the builders to remove the concrete and buy you a new trug.
How much was it?

Tobyjugg · 28/02/2015 16:32

Given the price of trugs - you are right to be annoyed.

Varya · 28/02/2015 16:33

It would really annoy me. We had some work done and my bird bath got smashed and made me mad. BB was a wedding prez. Husband not bothered.

Original poster
CruCru · 28/02/2015 16:33

I can't remember, probably not all that much to be honest. I think it's just the latest thing and I've had enough.

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Original poster
CruCru · 28/02/2015 16:34

I'm glad you don't all think I'm bonkers. I think DH can't see the issue.

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HootsMon · 28/02/2015 16:35

After Christmas I bought myself a trug (gardening basket to put tools / cuttings etc in)

Please - this is MN - you don't need to explain what a trug is. Grin

Original poster
CruCru · 28/02/2015 16:39

Sorry Grin. Well, before I started gardening, I didn't.

OP posts:
Andrewofgg · 28/02/2015 17:10

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Pipbin · 28/02/2015 17:39

My wheelbarrow is full of penguins.

It does sound like a badly translated sentence.

SandysMam · 28/02/2015 17:44

I remember once my plumber used my Lecrusset pot to catch a filthy leak and left it covered in sediment. It's a heartbreaking first world problem!! Flowers for your battered trug OP, prayers for it's safe restoration.

Original poster
CruCru · 28/02/2015 17:57

I'm going to buy another one and write "Cru's trug - leave alone" all over it in tipex.

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MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels · 28/02/2015 18:01

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SandysMam · 28/02/2015 18:05
Grin
Andrewofgg · 28/02/2015 20:31

Massive Grin

PolterGoose · 28/02/2015 20:47

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Balaboosta · 28/02/2015 21:38

My shopping trolley is quite dusty

BuzzardBird · 28/02/2015 21:40

Builders are notorious trug abusers.

Cinnamoncookie · 28/02/2015 21:40

My postilion has been struck by lightning

SunnyBaudelaire · 28/02/2015 21:41

bring some figs for me and my harlot

CaptainAnkles · 28/02/2015 21:43

Hold this pair of mittens, I must go to the towns. My trolley wheel has rolled down the mountain and my herring is overcooked.

Hypotenuse · 28/02/2015 21:44

Please - this is MN - you don't need to explain what a trug is.

Grin
TiggyD · 28/02/2015 21:47

Builders are the natural enemies of gardeners. I have a cementy spade.

TiggyD · 28/02/2015 21:48

Builders are notorious trug abusers.

They're trug thugs.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/02/2015 22:13

Ours used my metal bucket (with my permission) to mix cement in, then left the very weighty bucket on my fecking clematis plant (in a ceramic planter) Shock

Bar stewards!

(The clematis recovered and still grows, it gets hacked back every year so it thought meh )

TheSkiingGardener · 28/02/2015 22:26

A good trug is hard to find.

What the hell did the builder think it was! A concrete disposal unit?