To expect my neighbours to bring my bin in?

[UnicornPee]

Just arrived home from work, 6pm. It's bin day and like every week none of my neighbours (all retired but fit and well) bring my bin in. It's always left on the street causing obstruction.
I just know that if I was at home all day everyday id ring someone else's bin in if they were at work all day.
Dicks

[MooPointCowsOpinion]

I reckon nicenewdusters has it. They all do bring in each other's bins but leave yours because none of them like you.

[Gabilan]

My neighbours take my bin in. Unfortunately they take it into somewhere I can't get to it and then don't give it back to me. I have to wait until the next bin day and attempt to kidnap my own damn bin. This is difficult because they're retired and at home all day whereas I'm frequently out for 10-12 hours a day. One day when I was wfh I attempted to sprint down the drive and get my bin before the neighbours but they still fucking kidnapped it, the bastards.

I've painted my house number on it. I think I need to paint it onto every side of the bin and inside it as well. I was also going to try to source giant My Little Pony stickers and stick them all over it in the hope that the sheer embarrassment would stop my bloody fucking neighbours from repeatedly kidnapping my bin. The unhelpful wankers.

[Earthling1970]

OK now I've calmed down, here's a more mature response to my first one. Maybe your expecting the neighbours to bring in your bin is exactly the reason why they don't. Good deeds are a gift from others and should not be expected.

[TheDevilMadeMeDoIt]

WannaBe it doesn't have to be a long post to dig a deep hole.

That the OP expects her neighbours to bring in her bin and calls them dicks for not doing so achieved the aforementioned hole quite successfully.

We and a couple of our neighbours take each others bins out/bring them back in usually based on who's around at the time. I don't think of the other people on our road as dicks just because they don't form an orderly queue for the privilege of bringing my bin back.

[GinandJag]

When we were on holiday this week, I gave my adult children one job to do - take the bin in at the beginning of our holiday and put the recycling out at the end.

One job to do...

I don't expect more from our neighbours.

[WaitrosePigeon]

Whaaaaaaaat? Are you for real?

[Fairylea]

(Op is not coming back- too busy bringing her bin in as no one else will! )

Yabu. Your bin, you do it!

[MerchantofVenice]

She was JOKING with the 'dicks' thing. Blimey.

[SoupDragon]

Am I the only one who understood OP's tongue-in-cheek tone??

Clearly you are so much more clever and more observant than the rest of us because it's so bloody well hidden I can't see it and nor can anyone else.

[Esspee]

I bring in (and take out) the bins of an elderly neighbour because he is getting frail, the neighbour who works shifts and anyone who mentions they are going to be away but I wouldn't think of doing it for anyone else who is able bodied.
Who do you help out?

[MerchantofVenice]

I find many of the posters on this thread harder to like than OP based on evidence thus far..

[GiddyOnZackHunt]

Next time you have a day off on bin day, lurk until the bin men have been then dash out and take all the bins to their owners.
Then you can feel indignant :)

[sausagepoo]

I thought it was normal to take your neighbour's bin back? I certainly do and they also do if they're back first. I suspect a lot of it is to do with how the houses are positioned, the neighbour whose bin I take back put their bins in the same place as ours as our drives are together, so it would be odd not to. Strangely, I have never taken the other side of the semi's bin back as theirs is a good distance from ours, although I probably would if it was late at night and still out - but i do mow their lawn and they do ours too. I suspect the shock from some posters is all to do with bin positioning, it would be a little odd to take bins back if you had to walk a long distance to do so.

[Lorsaidthedean]

Maybe you could pay one of your neighbours to bring the bin? You get home to a nicely located bin, and your neighbour gets a much needed top up to their pension. A win win situation!

[daisypond]

We take our next-door neighbours' bins off the pavement where we live... I thought that was normal-ish. If they're/we're away/on holiday/at work/out, that's what we all do. It stops the pavement being really cluttered all day. We don't drag them back up to the house, just get them off the pavement.

[MerchantofVenice]

Soupdragon I actually assumed it was because posters like you were so jaded by mumsnet that you're just too keen to assume the worst about everyone and can't wait to jump in and tell them how 'entitled' they are and how everyone in real life hates them.

But if you want to suggest that I'm 'more clever' than everyone else, who am I to argue...

[Alisvolatpropiis]

One of my retired neighbours does everyone else's house on our section of the street but ours. Also stops pointedly and looks into our house when bypassing us for Christmas cards.

As you can imagine these petty slights cut deeply

My own petty retaliation is to leave the bins out for as long as I can stand to, because I know it will irritate them.

Not sure what we did to offend them so, as they've always not done it. Possibly failed to introduce ourselves to the "elder states people" of the street when we first moved in.

[MerchantofVenice]

Glad to see there has been a tide of sanity now - people agreeing that it is a normal, community-spirited thing to do. Not an amazing act of superhuman kindness. Just normal levels of niceness (outside MN that is...).

[SoupDragon]

Soupdragon I actually assumed it was because posters like you were so jaded by mumsnet...

Clearly I was wrong about the cleverness.

[SoupDragon]

Personally, I think it is arrogant to "expect" your neighbours to do chores for you.

[DameXanaduBramble]

What a wind up. Op has dropped the bomb and cleared off.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

The taking other people's bins in (or pointedly not doing so ) phenomenon is something I've only encountered on the street I currently live on. Never known it at any other address I've lived at.

Perhaps I'd more bothered if I thought it was the norm. As it goes I think it is a bit odd, to just merrily waltz through the gate into your neighbours front garden without any intention of interacting with them.

[Leonas]

I always brought my neighbour's bin in if I was home on bin day or they would bring mine if they got to it first. New neighbour doesn't acknowledge me to even say hello, even if I greet him directly, so he can do his own sodding bin. It usually stays in the street for a day or two which really irritates me but I refuse to give in until he speaks to me!

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

If they bring your bin in though. Then they'd feel obligated to to bring in their other neighbours bin, so. Where do you draw the line.