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To not know if I should admire her balls or report her

76 replies

AnniesTurn · 15/06/2017 14:09

Neighbour.

I recently had to access her shed. She has wall to wall storage boxes. Very neat. Very organised.

Except they are all free recycling boxes from the council. We all get one red one blue and one food caddy. She has about 10 of each.

I asked her and she said "oh you just to the collection point and the give you more". She's been to ALL the collection points and collected a set from each Shock

She's even using the food caddys to store dry pet food. She had no shame at all about it.

I can't work out if it's the councils own fault for not keeping any records of who collects or her fault for clearly stealing Hmm so she can have lovely neat stackable storage!

OP posts:
Coddiwomple · 15/06/2017 14:13

Is it wrong that I am tempted to do the same I won't
I dream of a tidy shed

ProudBadMum · 15/06/2017 14:14

Hmmm the garage could do with those....

Don't report. Get her grab you some when she next goes

Kursk · 15/06/2017 14:15

Awesome idea, she played the system and won

Original poster
AnniesTurn · 15/06/2017 14:16

It looked lovely Hmm

All sat neatly on top of each other. Labels too!

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steppemum · 15/06/2017 14:22

It's crap, sorry but pretty cheesed off at this attitude.

Not enough money for schools, not enough money for caring for our elderly, libraries shut all over the place, but hey, it's ok for the council to pay out a couple of hundred quid for me to have free storage boxes for my shed.

Who do you think bloody well pays for them?

BitOutOfPractice · 15/06/2017 14:25

I need to know why you needed to "access her shed" and not just go into it

hellobonjour · 15/06/2017 14:25

Agree with steppemum

BewareOfDragons · 15/06/2017 14:26

I agree with Steppemum. It's pretty crap of her, what with services being gutted and axed right and left, for her to essentially be stealing from all of us.

LittleBeautyBelle · 15/06/2017 14:28

Agree with Op, on the one hand she is taking more than her share. On the other hand, she created a very handsome storage shed we can all dream of.

Have to say I'm leaning toward ProudBadMum's take.

Syc4moreTrees · 15/06/2017 14:28

bitoutofpractice this made me laugh

Original poster
AnniesTurn · 15/06/2017 14:28

She borrows my mower I borrow her hedge trimmer.

She wasn't in when I text and said "oh sheds open just go in"

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FormerlyFrikadela01 · 15/06/2017 14:29

It is pretty shitty but who's at fault here? The system or the person who so easily played it?

Mothervulva · 15/06/2017 14:31

Seems a bit off. And I'd say the person is at fault, not the system. People should be trusted not to take stuff.

steppemum · 15/06/2017 14:33

Formerly - so if someone leaves their purse on the table it is ok for me to steal it as it is their fault for leaving it?

No it isn't about the system versus the person playing it.
It is stealing.
'playing the system' just means stealing where it is hard to catch you.

Does no-one have any values any more?

BitOutOfPractice · 15/06/2017 14:33

The YABU OP for accessing her shed when she only told you that you could go in Wink

Original poster
AnniesTurn · 15/06/2017 14:35

Wink bitof

Accessing is a bit more up market

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elevenclips · 15/06/2017 14:37

Every single system we have people will play it.

I'd forget it op.

Round here when the bin/recycling people empty these boxes they throw them back and most are now smashed/cracked anyway.

BitOutOfPractice · 15/06/2017 14:40

Oh it's definitely a bit posher. But it makes me think you're a police officer. "I proceeded through NDN's garden in an easterly direction before accessing her shed and witnesses the purloined goods" Grin

requestingsunshine · 15/06/2017 14:43

She didn't technically steal them if they gave them to her. You can't seriously be thinking of reporting her though are you? Its not exactly the crime of the century is it. Maybe these were ones they were getting rid of after replacing with new ones, which is why they were given to her when she asked?

lanouvelleheloise · 15/06/2017 14:44

I wouldn't report her - she'll know it was you and you clearly have to get on into the future, being neighbours. You'll have to buy a hedge trimmer if you do as well Grin

But I would definitely be quietly judging her! Wink

KoalaDownUnder · 15/06/2017 14:47

Bit, my favourite cop-speak is 'male person'. Never a 'man', but a 'male person'. Grin

Anyway, neighbour is a piss-taker, but no I wouldn't report her. Cos you need to borrow her stuff.

PigletJohn · 15/06/2017 14:52

I buy my own

Syc4moreTrees · 15/06/2017 14:52

I think on a grand scale it's really not that bad...

BorisTrumpsHair · 15/06/2017 14:59

It is pretty shitty but who's at fault here? The system or the person who so easily played it?

Do we as a society really have to be policed at every turn? can't we just take responsibility for ourselves in some aspects of our lives and just be decent fucking people?

It would probably cost more implement a checking system that it does to oversupply those arseholes who think they are more deserving than others.

But to answer the question, if you take what you know isn''t yours, just because "you can and you want" then of course its the neighbours fault.

Justmadeperfectflapjacks · 15/06/2017 15:00

Box envy.
Heard it all now op.

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