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Cheeky Fucker Neighbours !

271 replies

prettypetal · 18/10/2017 13:07

Don’t get me wrong I’m a lovely neighbour, if I can help my neighbours out anyway that I can I do. Next door have had some work done on their house, they had a skip on their drive which meant no room for both their dustbins, so whilst the skip was there they put both their big green & black dustbin on my drive ( which was totally fine ) we get on & logically it made sense ( I didn’t expect them to knock & ask if it was ok ) as my drive isn’t being used as I have no car & like I said I’m not unreasonable & logically of course this made sense as there isn’t anywhere else they could have put them except the pavement ( which is clear for me to see ) Work to the house has now finished, the skip has gone, bin men have been & emptied bins today, I put the bins out last night ( which I put theirs out too if they haven’t already done so ( and they do the same for me which is handy ) it’s just a case of who does it first does both bins & this includes bringing in bins back to original place. Like I said absolutely no dramas re this in the past. Well today they have been out & brought both their empty bins & plonked them back on my drive ! My side living room window looks onto my drive & it ain’t pretty looking at 4 huge bins 😡 I usually move my 2 bins further up my drive so that they aren’t visible out of my window but now I can’t do that because theirs are there. They have had extensive work done to their house ( extensions ) so room is tight in their garden but thats not my problem. So basically their house looks all pretty with no big horrible smelly dirty bins in the front garden on their micro drive ( my house is really pretty too) but now I’m left with the view of a line of 4 big smelly dirty bins from my side living room window. I want to go out & manoeuvre the bins around their cars back onto their micro drive but worry that I will look pathetic. Like I said it really wasn’t an issue at all them putting the bins there whilst they had the skip as it was totally a logical thing to do, but I presumed that when they brought the bjns back in from being emptied, that they would put them back in the tiny space on their drive where they always have been! The cheeky fuckers are now thinking it’s totally ok to just try to plonk them on my drive for eternity aren’t they???

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bigfatbumfreak · 18/10/2017 13:27

Diagram or its not real.

DrPill · 18/10/2017 13:28

Could it just be force of habit?

blueskyinmarch · 18/10/2017 13:28

Just knock on their door and ask them to move their bins as they don't need to be on your drive now their work has finished. Be polite and pleasant and see what they say. I expect they will be a bit flustered and then move them and that will be the end of that.

Hisnamesblaine · 18/10/2017 13:29

I wouldn't even knock. I would just leave it on the path outside their garden. No need for any communication

blueskyinmarch · 18/10/2017 13:29

Oh - and don't be moving them yourself. Tell them they need to move them - immediately.

BMW6 · 18/10/2017 13:30

You are not being petty at all! Their bins belong on their property!

Rhodiolia · 18/10/2017 13:30

Yep, just move theirs back.

TsunamiOfShit · 18/10/2017 13:31

Just pull them down to the pavement again, you don't have to pull them up their drive.

FizzyGreenWater · 18/10/2017 13:32

Just cheeky.

If you get on with them ok, just put them back - just right beside the car.

If this is the tip of a cheeky iceberg, I'd wait til it's dark then get rid of the bins. Take them a few roads away and leave them.

'Wow, I have no idea where your bins have gone - but why did you put them back on my drive now the skip has gone? Presumably someone's nicked them as they could see I had more than the two! You should have got them back on your property sharpish!'

Berthatydfil · 18/10/2017 13:32

No just put them back in the most inconvenient place possible - so behind their car or somewhere they have to move the bin to move their car out. You could knock the door as I suggested upthread or put a note through to say that you extended them the courtesy of having the bins on your property while they were having the work done in the spirit of good neighbourliness, there is no longer any need now the work is finished so please can they take them back onto their property of you will assume they have been abandoned or gifted to you to use or dispose of as you wish.

Then if they do it again, move, hide abandon them

Nocabbageinmyeye · 18/10/2017 13:33

Just leave them behind their car Confused leave them sticking out so they can see them before they drive. Don't even make a big deal out of it by knocking. Their bins ho back, your get moved back to where they were originally and it's job done

MidniteScribbler · 18/10/2017 13:34

Just dump them back on their side, cars or no cars.

Remember this phrase: "not my circus, not my monkeys'. Or in other words "not my bins, not my problem". Put the bins back on their side of the drive/fence/footpath/whatever it is and then they are no longer your problem.

zeeboo · 18/10/2017 13:35

Stick them behind their car then they’ll have to
move them before they can drive away.

namechangealways · 18/10/2017 13:35

So weird!

brogueish · 18/10/2017 13:36

Before saying anything, you're sure it was them and not the bin men? Our bin men just put the bins back in whatever spot they were originally.

spiderlight · 18/10/2017 13:37

Could you not just ask them nicely?

TsunamiOfShit · 18/10/2017 13:39

Could you not just ask them nicely?

Now there's a ridiculous idea...

Anatidae · 18/10/2017 13:41

‘Hiya neighbours! I just moved your bins back - dont want them right outside the window. Extension looks lovely by the way,’

Cheery wave. Done

Yukbuck · 18/10/2017 13:42

Wow you are really getting worked up over something so minor! It was probably an accident. Or the bin men! Maybe a new bin man working today.
I would just knock on their door and really friendly say 'hey is all the work finished now? If so would it be possible to keep your bins on your property now' you don't want to accuse in case it wasn't them. You said you get along but you're being pretty mean constantly swearing about them. Why fall out about something that isn't an issue?

SoupDragon · 18/10/2017 13:43

they both have well paid jobs

Aren't they at work then? How would they have put the bins on your drive?

SilverSpot · 18/10/2017 13:46

Just do exactly as @Anatidae says

woollytights · 18/10/2017 13:48

"If so would it be possible to keep your bins on your property now"

Imagine they said "no, that won't be possible actually"!

NotAPuffin · 18/10/2017 13:50

I'd put them back on the path and forget about it. I wouldn't bother asking them to move their car.

musicform · 18/10/2017 13:50

The first time they did it, I would return them, the second time, they would mysteriously disappear

BitOfANameChange · 18/10/2017 13:53

Put the bins behind the car, let them put them away.

And if/when you talk to them, don't say "please" or "could you possibly", etc, or any language that implies that they have the option to say no.

Keep it simple, "The skip has gone now, so no need to keep the bins on my side." Don't give them any wriggle room.

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