Bins here go out on a Monday morning. We leave it up the top of the drive, and then bring it back to the pathway the side of our house afterwards. It's collected during the school run period, and then we both had appointments, so it was probably moved back about 1030. It's shelted by the side of the house and doesn't move from there.
This morning, my neighbour stopped me in the drive way and said, "I'm not complaining but your bin blew and scratched my friend's new car yesterday, she's only had it three weeks, she's really upset..."
She repeated herself a few times, kept putting emphasis on how upset the friend was and how she'd only just got the car. It struck me when she'd said it three times that she was hinting we should cover the cost for repairs. I apologised and commented on how awful the wind had been yesterday, and how I hoped her friend had got home okay. I got a bit of a dirty look at that point, she got in the car and drove away.
Now I didn't see the car, I didn't see the bin hit it, I don't know where she was parked, I didn't see the scratch - not saying she's lying but I obviously don't know what exactly has happened. Her friend was insistent it was our bin apparently, again, didn't see any of this, when we got home the bin was blown over but on the drive. And the wind was obviously horrendous here yesterday, as it was everywhere, with the storm.
Was I BU to not offer to pay for repairs?