bin dilemma - wibu? [lighthearted]

[someonestolemynick]

Disclaimer - I think I was the pinnacle of reason.

So, today was bin day. I was leaving for work about 10 minutes ago. I was about to move the recycling bin, when I realised that the bin people had swapped our bin and next door's. NDN had already brought our bin into their front garden.
I knocked on their door - no answer. So I did, what I would refer to, as the only sensible thing: I swapped the bins back and left.
They will never now, the bins are both intact, surely it would have been more annoying to seek the neighbours permission to swap back.
But 2 years on mumsnet made me wonder, was ibu? Was I trespassing or maybe even stealing?
Out me out of my misery mumsnet.

Or maybe I just win most boring thread of the day. Would a diagram help?

Of course you were NBU. I think MN makes people second guess the most innocuous of things but in the real world what you did is entirely normal.

Thanks Margot, sometimes I imagine how small petty problems would work out on MN (Aibu to not get up and turn off the hallway light now I'm in bed). I thought this one deserves the scrutiny of real mumsnet.

I would have done the same (I think, I might have bottled it)
When I was a student, one of our neighbour's kept adopting our bin so one night we stole it back and slapped a massive number 3 on the sides and top. It never went wandering again

I think you've better tread very carefully indeed, OP

You may not be in the clear just yet! Are you in a Neighbourhood Watch area? If so, your actions may have already been recorded and passed onto the local police. They may be on their way to interview you, as I type this.

Then what will you do?!!?!?

Are the bins labelled?

Is one of the bins better than the other?

If i was your neighbour I'd log it with 101 probably.

Ok, I'll admit it: I did it because I just wanted the 101 log book street cred.

The bins are labelled and our bin is the subject of bin envy in the entire neighbourhood exactly the same as theirs.

Does your bin smell of Zoflora though?

It's also quite possible that your neighbours consider it unreasonable to open the door if they aren't expecting someone, and so they watched your whole unreasonable trespassing from their upstairs windows.

Diagram definitely required

Bin there - done that!

Have you heard that jokes about the bin?

It's rubbish

This thread is being LITTERED with RECYCLED jokes.

HaHaHa! You think you've got a problem, Op?
Our NDN's regularly put out and bring in our bin(s), park on our drive when we are on holiday, take in parcels and bring them round when we get home, have keys to our house and actually are friends. (And we do the same for them).
Total MN fraud, me!

Who do your neighbours think they are, Faded? How presumptuous of them. I'm shocked

Next thing, you'll be telling me you swap Christmas cards and you could call on them in an emergency.

The world is surely going to hell in a hand-basket.

It's also quite possible that your neighbours consider it unreasonable to open the door if they aren't expecting someone, and so they watched your whole unreasonable trespassing from their upstairs windows.

Have the police arrived yet?

floraeasy oh dear, yes to all you say, .
I'm going to have to leave MN and go to the Dark Side, aren't I?

It's an awful position to be in Faded - you need to be more careful next time you buy a house. Scope out the neighbourhood properly and make sure you get decent neighbours next time!