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Neighbour knocked on door at 6.30am for this reason

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Leilani24 · 18/01/2018 17:13

To tell me my dustbin had blown into her garden and was repeatedly smashing against her wall.

It’s awkward as even if I knew about this, I doubt I’d have knocked to retrieve my bin back and relive her in the fear I’d have woken her up...

I’m not sure if she knew her rubbish had blown all over the street

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Kursk · 18/01/2018 17:36

Sugarcoma

DH would say it wouldn’t be acceptable normally but after a bad storm it’s justifiable.

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youarenotkiddingme · 18/01/2018 17:37

I woke up at 5.50am because 3 bins hit my house Shock

Checked ds was sounds, chucked on a dressing gown and returned them to rightful owners houses - one of which was 100m away!

Didn't occur to me to knock and wake them up. What would be the point?

lifechangesforeverinjuly · 18/01/2018 17:38

I'm going for the bus at 6.30 on a weekday morning! Alarms go off at 5.45.

Ravenesque · 18/01/2018 17:39

6.30am is early for a lot of people, not everyone is up at that time, plus there are shift workers, it seems rather over the top to knock at that time to me.

While it wasn't up to the neighbour to do anything with your bin, it wasn't your fault that there was a huge storm overnight unless you are the goddess of all the weathers and did it just to annoy her Grin. I mean seriously, did it not occur to her that her bin might also have gone flying in the night and that if it hadn't it was lucky for her, or that there were probably bins all over the place, strewn rubbish etc.

She was out of order to knock so early over something so minor.

N.b. I was kept awake by the storm, it happens, storms happen. It's not anyone's fault.

5plusMeAndHim · 18/01/2018 17:40

I wonder if it's a rural V town thing. I often go for a run at 6/6.30 and see light on in about 70* of the houses, lots of people out walking dogs, running, going off to see to horses.maybe in towns when you have a shorter commute or school run people get up later?

5plusMeAndHim · 18/01/2018 17:41

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Lweji · 18/01/2018 17:41

Not sure I understand what happened. Your neighbour knocked on your door to let you know that your bin was keeping her awake?

What's your problem? If windy weather was expected, you should have secured it. And if it was a nuisance to her, you should go, retrieve it, apologise and make sure it was safe from being blown up again.

Sugarcoma · 18/01/2018 17:41

Err, it's less justifiable given that people will probably have had a hard time getting to sleep with a storm raging through the night.

And to whichever PP was sniffing about "pearl clutching" (that phrase doesn't mean what you think it means FYI) - Kursk's husband isn't, I'm assuming, employed by the council to the job so he certainly shouldn't be doing it for anyone else's benefit (surely there's all kinds of health and safety around that).

Looneytune253 · 18/01/2018 17:42

Wow I’m surprised at the amount of people that think 6.30 is early on a weekday morning. I would imagine the neighbour had been kept up with the banging of your bin, so desperate measures I think. I don’t think it was unacceptable of her to knock but it would have probably been easier to just move it. My dh recently was out in the street at 2/3am recently picking up our bin, and others as the rubbish was coming out. I would have just turned over and went to sleep lol but he can’t. Maybe your neighbour can’t sleep through incessant noises. Must be annoying for her.

Bexter801 · 18/01/2018 17:44

No not cool,she should have waited until a reasonable time to tell you,6.30am is early,there's no disputing that! Not like you went,got the bin and chucked it in to her garden! If it was getting on her nerves,is there some reason she wasn't able to drag it away?

sonjadog · 18/01/2018 17:44

If I were her, I would have just moved them myself. That's the norm around here. I wouldn't disturb someone at any time of day to move over a dustbin.

Snowdrop18 · 18/01/2018 17:45

6.30 is unacceptably early unless they know specifically you will be up at that time.

I can see why she was annoyed that the bin was smashing against her wall but I think she could have dealt with herself. Does she know you? you could work shifts or anything.

Sarahh2014 · 18/01/2018 17:45

That wouldn't have gone down well in our house! She should have sorted the bin out herself if bothering her that much,looks like she had the attitude of well I'm up coz of the bin so you should be too

5plusMeAndHim · 18/01/2018 17:46

Kursk's husband isn't, I'm assuming, employed by the council to the job so he certainly shouldn't be doing it for anyone else's benefit (surely there's all kinds of health and safety around that).

she says they live rurally, the council will not get round to doing that for maybe even days.In the meantime how many smashes does she want outside her house?

NotReadyToMove · 18/01/2018 17:46

6.30 would be early for us too. No one is up before 7.00am here.

And if the noise disturbed her, why didn’t she get up and move the bin so it wasn’t an issue anymore???

Elendon · 18/01/2018 17:47

I'm awake at 6.30am every weekday morning. I don't have babies and I'm in my fifties. It's not that early. If it was 3.00am, I may have had words.

Most working people get up between 5.30 and 7.30 am.

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Undercoverbanana · 18/01/2018 17:47

Is she very old or disabled and unable to move the bin herself?

No problem with 6.30 here, but don't see why she had to bother you on your way to work.

RhiannonOHara · 18/01/2018 17:48

6.30 is too early to my mind, although I know there's plenty of people showing off about what early risers they are and what slugabeds other people are.

But anyway, unless I'm really misunderstanding, she could have just moved the bin back or at least moved it away from her wall, no?

How did the conversation go, OP?

Draylon · 18/01/2018 17:48

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Aspatria · 18/01/2018 17:48

6:30 is ridiculously early, and an acceptable time to make any kind of noise ONLY to make a point if your neighbours had a late party the night before, then gardening/ DIY/ hoovering is fair play.

Emergency to clear a road is fine too

I suppose your neighbour was trying to make a point. Whilst you didn't throw the bin in her garden, you should have put in a safe-ish place to avoid it being blown away. There are weather warnings everywhere, you can't tied up trees and cars, but you could (and should) secure your bin.

Nothomealone · 18/01/2018 17:48

Unless she is for some reason unable to move it I don't see why she couldn't move it herself. Yes it would be annoying for her but it was a storm and not a deliberate action on your part. My response would be, "Oh, I am sorry, I'll collect it once I an dressed". We get up at 6:30 so she wouldn't have to wait long.

Megs4x3 · 18/01/2018 17:49

Whatever happened to neighbourliness, Sugarcoma, or are we all supposed to do nothing to help anyone because it's 'not my job' and 'oh, my, Health and Safety'?

Elendon · 18/01/2018 17:49

Plus I would have secured the bins knowing it was a windy night. And I would have been most apologetic that my bins had gone into someone else's property.

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