Neighbour knocked on door at 6.30am for this reason

[Leilani24]

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

I'd be stunned and raging if a neighbour woke me up at 6.30am to complain about misbehaving bins! (And that's if they actually managed to wake me up)

I hope you shouted "here, Binny Binny, good boy!" With a biscuit in your outstretched hand. " I'm so sorry, his recall has become so poor these days! He'd never just run wheelie off like that- is your compost bin in heat?? "

Stupid cow. (The woman the OP is on about.) I would not have answered. I would not have 'knocked her fuck out' though. 😂

My NDN has a front gate that she occasionally forgets to shut (and put the latch on...) And when she forgets, and it's rather windy; it flaps and bangs and rattles against her front wall... And we hear it from our house going bang, bang, bang. (Doesn't happen often, maybe once a month.) They are out of the house more than we are, so are often not here when it's a-clatterin.'

So what do we do.

We go outside, and ....

Close.

Their.

Gate.

We never even MENTION it to her!

Why couldn't the stupid woman the OP is referring to move the damn bin herself?

What a twat.

And yeah, 6.30am IS too early. I work, and I don't get up til between 7.30am and 7.45am. I work 3 days one week, and 4 the next, and then 3 days and then 4 days and so on... So there was a very reasonable chance she may have woke me at 6.30am on one of my days off!

When I don't have work the next day, I sometimes stay up til 1am. So I would have been fucking livid to have been woken at 6.30am by some silly precious bint asking me to do something she could have done herself. I would have probably ignored her actually...

Re the man removing fallen trees off the road at 5.30am, that sounds like a decent thing to do. And actually quite helpful to the community. Knocking on someone's door at 6.30am to move a bin you could move yourself is just stupid though.

And as I said, getting up at 6.30am is NOT normal for everyone. And there is an odd air of superiority and smugness, amongst a few posters, who get up at 5.30am, and have a long 2 hour commute to London. 🙄

@kursk

I took is 4 attempts to find a gas station that was A) open and B) had fuel!

Strangely I find it quite enjoyable and exiting!!

Weirdly I would have too. I remember me and DH a few years ago, coming back from our hotel at midnight (after a few days on hols up north.) We were due to come back the next morning, but came early as snow was predicted.

It was quite exciting coming down the motorways and A roads in the dark, some of the journey with no streetlights, stopping at motorway service stations at 2am, and mixing with the people of the night, and then driving through the dark, eerie country lanes at 3.00am. Creepy and weird, but very enjoyable.

*rothbury
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 smile

Some people have jobs that aren't 9-5... I often finish at 2am and not in work until 4pm. I'm certainly not awake at 7am, and wouldn't be impressed with someone knocking on my door at that time to say the bin is making a noise!

Can't believe the sloth of some posters
I think its really slobby & lazy to be still lying in your pit at 7.30.You need to get yourself into a more healthy sleep pattern

@5plusMeAndHim What a ridiculous statement. Some people have different sleep patterns. 7.30am is a perfectly reasonable time to get up. (And I get up at 5.40am so I'm not being defensive.)

Can't believe the sloth of some posters
I think its really slobby & lazy to be still lying in your pit at 7.30.You need to get yourself into a more healthy sleep pattern

I rather think it's healthier to get the sleep my body needs when it needs it

When we have to be out of the house at 7.30 (three days a week), I'm not up at 6.30.

When we have to be out of the house at 8.45 (the other two), I'm certainly not up at 6.30.

So no, I wouldn't be very happy at all if someone knocked on my door at that time. It's too early. I'm not an early riser - but like so many people have pointed out (and unlike DH), I'm not asleep on the sofa at 9pm every evening. My lifestyle works for me I like drinking and watching grown up telly and you can't do either of those at 6am.

think 5plus must be having a joke with us!

Although it is really annoying all this “most working people get up before 7am” chat. Some of us work nights and have to put up with constant ringing of doorbells, building work and raised eyebrows if you answer the door in your PJs at 10am —whennotonnights—

Crossing out fail!

I don't think there's enough information to really make a judgement call here. Were the bins in the OP's backyard and therefore the neighbour couldn't get to them? We're they full of dog shit or dirty nappies that were now all over the neighbours front yard? Is the neighbour 97 years old or has a disability that would make moving the bins difficult? Is this the 20th time since Christmas that the OPs bin has ended up in her yard?

Can't believe the sloth of some posters
I think its really slobby & lazy to be still lying in your pit at 7.30.You need to get yourself into a more healthy sleep pattern

Everyone should be like meeeee (and I completely lack the imagination to see that not everyone is like me, nor is it necessary for them to be).

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.

School starts at 9, and DD leaves home at 8.57.

Just wanted to say I am proud to be a sloth and get up sometimes at 9.30. I work from home so can roll out of my pit and might even horror upon horror not even be arsed to get dressed or brush my hair before starting work.

Strange so brilliantly put.

For me, 7.30 is when I'm in my deepest sleep, I've been up once (to the loo) and been back asleep for about 2 hours. A lie in at the weekend is usually until about 11am, during the week up about 10.00am.

@5plusmeandhim

Can't believe the sloth of some posters
I think its really slobby & lazy to be still lying in your pit at 7.30.You need to get yourself into a more healthy sleep pattern

ODFOD! And keep your smug, obnoxious, judgemental, condescending, pious views to yourself.

You know fuck-all about anyone's life on here, or the hours they work, or what time they finish!

And I am gonna call it now......... I bet YOU don't have a job.

I am so glad that my neighbours are decent human beings and not miserable fuckers!

Bins have been blown all over the place in recent storms. Whoever is out and notices them returns them to their rightful homes. Last time my neighbour's bin ended up by my door (I thought someone was knocking!) I went outside, picked it up and returned it to my neighbour's garden. It didn't even occur to me to tell them to come and get it. I can't imagine any normal person doing that especially at 6.30am.
I don't get out of bed at that time for anyone!

petbear
OMG are you my NDN?
We need to get a new gate, the hinges have slipped and it is difficult to secure it. When it is windy it bangs sometimes but when I hear it I always dash right out and wedge it shut. However we are out most of the day so I am guiltily aware that occasionally it must bang for ages and they come out and sort it.

BTW 6:30 would be really annoying for us. We have the alarm set for 7 so 6.30 would mean by the time you dealt with the issue it would probably be too late to return to bed and had thus lost that precious last half hour in bed.

@5foot5

Ha ha you do sound like my neighbour! (With her faulty gate haha!)

5plus
Can't believe the sloth of some posters
ithink its really slobby & lazy to be still lying in your pit at 7.30.You need to get yourself into a more healthy sleep pattern

Yeah, I'll bear that in mind when i' m not able to leave work at 23.00hrs when my shift was supposed to finish but we've been driving around the streets looking for the kids who have gone MFH. { children's home, police won't always come out for various reasons) Often it's gone 2.00am before I get in and then I can't sleep because I'm wide awake worrying. Yeah, dead lazy me!
Or am in the wrong to let my hair down having a drink until late on a Wednesday or Thursday night as it is my 'weekend time so I'm out as I'm working Riday , Saturday , Sunday and Monday?

Some people and their little bubbles really don't get that there is life beyond their own!

If anyone other than my DC with a very valid reason, woke me at 5.30am/6.30amany day of the week, they'd be finding out how inappropriate it was and they'd know I am not a morning person. We don't need to be up until 7.50am so I wouldn't be a happy camper

lol wtf

yabu you should have told the wind to stop it.

I would be extremely annoyed with this. And I would never wake a neighbour at such a ridiculous hour for something as ridiculous as this. I would simply, move the bin myself. Surely all normal people would? (if its possible for them, obviously with the exception of people with disabilities and the elderly who may struggle)

if I don't set my alarm, I don't naturally wake until 10-11am. But then I also don't naturally sleep before 2am, so weekdays when I have to be up at 7.35, I would probably actually yell at ANYONE who isn't my child waking me up at 6.30 for a non-emergency.

And its nothing to do with sloth, i'm on medication that makes waking up fucking hard, if i'm not let to wake naturally it can take me a good 30 minutes to come around enough to actually make it down the stairs safely.

Whilst we're all up, breakfasted and dressed by 5am there's no way I'd go round to someone's before 9!

It's it like some unspoken etiquette rule?

When I first moved here my in laws would ring/ walk in to the house at 5.30am and I lost my shit in a very large and loud way.

Why on earth wouldn’t you just wheel the bin back over? Weird.