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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

OP posts:

Lweji · 18/01/2018 19:06

I’m sure she wouldn’t have liked it if I knocked on her door at that time to tell her that her rubbish had blown all over the road.

Maybe she would, so that she could sort it out and her bin wouldn't be blown away further and lose it.

Sunbeam18 · 18/01/2018 19:07

Still have no idea why she didn't move it herself?

Walkerbean16 · 18/01/2018 19:11

Jeez, on the eay to school this morning my son walked ahead and picked everyones wheelie bins up and put them back to where they belonged of his own accord. He is 10! Im sure a grown woman could have moved one bin.

LemonysSnicket · 18/01/2018 19:48

If anyone woke me up before my 7.15 alarm I would actually consider murder.

LemonysSnicket · 18/01/2018 20:03

8am-8pm is acceptable for disturbing others, I think.

Aspatria · 18/01/2018 20:12

Still have no idea why she didn't move it herself?
maybe because she was not amused to be woken up by the neighbours' bins so she was sharing the joy

HermionesRightHook · 18/01/2018 20:14

For securing bins, get those elasticy bungee cord things with hooks on the end for securing crap in the back of a van/car if you don't want it slamming around. You can hook a few of them together and then secure the lid with one or two, and wrap them round a post or similar if you've got one.

It won't work for extremely heavy wind, especially if the bin is empty, but it will help. If it's empty, breeze block or two in the bottom.

And the neighbour was BU, I get up before 6:30 and I'd be pissed off that she couldn't see that it's an unusual situation and just sort the bloody bin herself.

PiffleandWiffle · 18/01/2018 20:16

If any of my neighbours were stupid enough to knock on my door at that hour for that reason they'd get told to fucking well move it themselves.

I'd also be knocking at their door on the way back from the pub every Friday evening to ask if there were any odd jobs they'd like me to do whilst I was up.

They'd learn.......

tolerable · 18/01/2018 20:24

what a witch! i hate getting woken up.temper might have gone at that...but..that said..i hate noise especially repetitive which is why my neighbours know to expect their wheelie bins cable tied to nearest wrought iron fence or gates cable tied shut..or windchimes removed and left on doorstepif incredible wind occurs.i think they endure it cos other option might be waking them up

Sunbeam18 · 18/01/2018 20:32

Its a bin that's blown away in the wind. Who it belongs to doesn't matter as the owner didn't deliberately make it blow over, it was the wind. If a bin is blowing against your wall and annoying you then move it.

LemonysSnicket · 18/01/2018 20:36

@Draylon my DM is a bit like that, ‘oh I’ve been up since 5! How you’re still asleep at 7 I’ll never know!’
Because I didn’t fall asleep at 8pm dribbling onto the sofa...

apostropheuse · 18/01/2018 20:37

I wake up, without using an alarm, between 5.30 and 5.50 every morning - weekends included. It's just the way my body works now. It doesn't feel particularly early to me.

I did knock on my neighbour's door at 6.30am one morning, but it was to let them know that their very well loved and cared
for giant pet rabbits had escaped from their hutch and had got out of their garden. I wouldn't have knocked their door about a roaming bin.

LemonysSnicket · 18/01/2018 20:40

And @Aspatria or you could try and relocate to a cheaper city?

bristolone · 18/01/2018 20:48

I want to know what "punch the fuck out" means?

gillybeanz · 18/01/2018 20:56

We go to bed at about 2/3am and get up at 10/11am, of course 6am is unreasonable, for some.
We wouldn't have woken up though as world war 3 could be happening and we'd sleep through it.

Our street is really neighbourly though, we help each other out all the time and our neighbour would have put it back for us, maybe not at 6.00 though, maybe 8am.
We'd have slept through his bin knocking our wall, but would have taken it round when up.

Aspatria · 18/01/2018 20:59

@LemonysSnicket
All well and good, but what would I do there? I need a job!

BewareOfDragons · 18/01/2018 21:01

My 12 year old also picked up rubbish all the way down our street, popping it into bins that were all out and had blown open along the way, as he walked to the bus. And when he came home, he finished collecting the rubbish that had blown into our own garden as I hadn't had time to get it all before leaving for work.

Your neighbour is ridiculous. Everyone had rubbish bins go over last night. REcycling bins were especially troublesome as the recycling bins are generally full of 'loose' stuff, not bagged.

People's fences were also blown down, trampolines launched, table and bbq covers blown away, etc.

Nibblertron · 18/01/2018 21:16

After storms in the past DH has been outside with a chainsaw at 5:30 in the morning, to clear debris to make sure the kids got to school ok.

Oh, I bet he was popular with the local kids then

In the sticks, snowdrifts and fallen trees were gifts from the gods, preventing the progress of the school bus and givng us an unexpected day off.

notacooldad · 18/01/2018 21:25

Posters who get up at 8.15 - do you not have DC to get ready for school? Jobs to go to? School starts at 8.15 here. Even if my workplace was next door, if I started at 9 I would want to be up by 7

Dc2 gets himself up for college
Dc1 gets himself up for work.
DP usually brings me a brew up and I wait for everyone to leave. I live 15 mins from work but have different start times. Sometimes 8, sometimes 9 or 10. A couple of times a week I start at 12.
There's no need to rush and get up early.

southboundagain · 18/01/2018 21:33

"Even if my workplace was next door, if I started at 9 I would want to be up by 7"

Does it really take two hours to get ready in the morning?

MissEliza · 18/01/2018 21:34

Ha ha Lemony she sounds exactly like my in laws who then get up at 5am and wake us up with toing and froing to the toilet!

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 18/01/2018 21:40

I saw someone's little food waste bin by local roundabout today, quite a long way from any houses.
Bet they're looking all over the place formit

EilaLila · 18/01/2018 21:44

YANBU OP but loving all the virtuous people who are clearly better than everyone else because they get up so much earlier. They’re clearly hard of thinking. Lots of people work from home or work shifts that don’t start at 9 am or have older children who get up themselves or don’t have children at all or have health problems or are unemployed or just don’t need to be up at 5 am to get their children ready and get to work on time.

JacquesHammer · 18/01/2018 21:49

It is only ever acceptable to wake someone at 6.30am if you're sure they're awake.

The only exception is an emergency. This wasn't an emergency, the neighbour could have dealt with the situation themselves and then asked the OP to secure the bin so it doesn't happen again.

Days DD is with me we wake at 7.45. Days she's slept at her dads I wake naturally whenever I am ready. I would be really unimpressed to be woken at 6.30am

Ivymaud · 18/01/2018 21:49

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