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Neighbour knocked on door at 6.30am for this reason

276 replies

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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Aspatria · 18/01/2018 17:49

I get that many think getting up at 5-5.30am to get the train to London, 1 1/2 hours away, is worth it for the job/the money
It's sweet that you think it's a choice....

Kursk · 18/01/2018 17:51

If windy weather was expected, you should have secured it.

DH always does a storm check to prevent things like this happening.

Sugarcoma, he definitely doesn’t work for the council. Besides why would it be the their responsibility? In a adverse weather situation people should probably expect to be disrupted and be ready to help each other out.

Skowvegas · 18/01/2018 17:56

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).

What an odd attitude. Like Kursk I also live in Maine. We lose a lot of branches and sometimes trees in big storms. Everyone gets out there and helps each other sort them out. Apart from anything, there's some valuable hardwood to be had for free.

Bexter801 · 18/01/2018 17:56

Kursk,helping each other out works both ways surely? Somebody waking you up at 6.30am,over something so trivial,is ridiculous!

diddl · 18/01/2018 17:56

"I suppose your neighbour was trying to make a point."

I would have thought so.

If she'd bothered to secure her bin, it would be bloody annoying to then be disturbed by someone elses!

ptumbi · 18/01/2018 17:56

630am is normal, surely? My dp alarm goes off at 630, my ds3 alarm same, my alarm 10mins later. Dp gets to work for 8am. I get to work for 830.

I'd love to get up at 730.

parkingwarqueen · 18/01/2018 17:56

Similar to this, my neighbour claimed our wheelie bin had hit her car and damaged it. She had said she woke up in the night and saw it near her car, with the lid banging against her car, but she hadn’t moved it (???) and by the morning it had moved again. Then tried to claim £££ from us for the damage, it was so tiny I couldn’t even see it, but she called us negligent and that she’d be seeking advice, she never got back to us so I’m presuming she didn’t get the advice she wanted.
If I had seen it happen, or there was more damage Id have offered but her immediate demand for money for scratches I couldn’t physically see even though she showed me herself was ridiculous.

Lweji · 18/01/2018 17:57

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

So that it would be blown away back or elsewhere?

Presumably, she alerted the OP when the bins blew over. Not to make a point.

Aspatria · 18/01/2018 17:59

630am is normal, surely?

I do like that some posters believe that the whole world must live the way they live. Because you know, there is one way to live and do things, and that their's.

Autumnchill · 18/01/2018 18:01

I knocked on my neighbours door at 6.30am to tell him his car had rolled into the middle of the road during the night (turned out he had been broken into and they moved that car to steal the expensive one) but for a bloody bin blowing about, I would have sorted it myself or left it until lights were on in your house if I was old and couldn't physically move the bin.

bummypicklemummy · 18/01/2018 18:02

I also live in Maine. I don't think you realise what our storms are like. They can take weeks of clean up, hours to even get out of your house.

There's no 'council' to come and clean up. 😂

We do for ourselves and each other.

And everyone in Maine is awake by 5am anyway! Grin

Draylon · 18/01/2018 18:02

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bummypicklemummy · 18/01/2018 18:04

If windy weather was expected, you should have secured it.

Seriously? GrinGrin

We had a storm in October that tore up over 100 trees on our land alone. Should we have tied them all down? To what?! HmmGrin

Dh has work until April clearing up after that one storm. But obviously everyone should have secured all of their trees.

Draylon · 18/01/2018 18:04

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bummypicklemummy · 18/01/2018 18:06

And the last time we had a storm nobody came to get the trees out of he road and get our power back on for over a week.

Sitting tight and waiting for someone to do stuff for you wouldn't work here.

Undercoverbanana · 18/01/2018 18:07

I'm am totally over-invested in needing a back-story on this neighbour. Come back OP!

QueenUnicorn · 18/01/2018 18:07

It's early, but I'd be OK with it as a one off. She'll probably know by your voice that you had just been woken up. She may be an anxious person who had been wondering for a while whether to knock or not.

Oysterbabe · 18/01/2018 18:07

6:30 is early. We're up at 8 here.

bummypicklemummy · 18/01/2018 18:07

@Draylon that sounds like most of rural Maine! Grin

Kursk · 18/01/2018 18:11

bummypicklemummy

We were without power for a week during the last storm also. DH has to teach me how to oil change and troubleshoot the generator we were useg it so much!

It took us the best part of 2 days to clear enough trees so we could get out far enough to get fuel.

Batmanwearspants · 18/01/2018 18:13

My alarm goes off at 8, if I was woken up by someone at 6.30 i'd be annoyed, especially because once you answer it theres not much point going back to bed for an hour.

notacooldad · 18/01/2018 18:13

630am is normal, surely?
Is it heck.
I set the alarm for 0815hrs most mornings.

Kursk · 18/01/2018 18:13

Draylon yes that day Maine day

Out the house by 6, Home by 4, Suppa at 5!

bummypicklemummy · 18/01/2018 18:14

@Kursk we ran out of fuel on the island that storm. It all got a bit Lord of the Flies for a while!

Aspatria · 18/01/2018 18:16

I think it's ridiculous that people think there is no choice

I suppose there's always the option of cramming the entire family near work in a shitty 2 bed flat in a grim neighbourhood, or to give up work entirely and live in on benefits in a council property and a free goat

It depends what you call choice really