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

Blimey, I'm nagging DD to get dressed at 6.30 in the morning!

I'm not pearl clutching, I'm envious! 😂

@PiffleandWiffle because I may have been seen in the neighbour's garden and they could be wondering wth I was doing and not realise, but mainly because if the bin has blown away once it may happen again, etc, etc. Just communication.

Honestly I've never seen anything approaching the devastation in the UK in my whole 36 years there than I have in one year in the States.

Bummypicklemummy I grew up in Massachusetts, went to college in Maine and moved to Scotland in 1990. I’m happy to second your opinion that U.K. storms are nothing like New England storms! The closest we got was 8 years ago (8!) when we had a proper winter and I wailed that if I wanted that sort of weather I would have stayed at home.

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

@rothbury my kids are older teenagers and get themselces up and out. I work for myself from home often in my pyjamas so I have no official start time and no commute. I set my alarm for 8am

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

We get up between 7.45 and 8. Get dressed. DD has breakfast. Leave at 8.30, drop her at school for 8.40. Home for 8.45, make a cuppa. Start work.

Think I was quite restrained then for not going round to my neighbour, whose gate was banging against the wall of our house from 4am! Last time it happened I went round to try & secure it, as they were not there, & immediately got a text from the owners asking why I was there (turns out they'd put a security camera up).

I'm not showing off Rhiannon, if I could get the DC out of the house by 8.20, but get up later, I would. I'm up at 5, DD's up at 5.50, DS2's up at 6.05. Any later than that and we miss the school bell.

I'm not talking about you specifically, Perfectly.

Shift work or working nights is really not good for you.There is loads of research to support this.
Your body is programmed to broadly follow daylight patterns

I gathered that Rhiannon, but I suspect most pps would stay in bed if they could. We have a 20 minute (in theory, half hour in reality) walk to school. No car. I can't afford to get the bus every day. No choice of nearer school, as the other one's the same distance in the other direction.

Shift work or working nights is really not good for you.There is loads of research to support this.
Your body is programmed to broadly follow daylight patterns

Oh well. Better stop all night shifts immediately. Not like any are essential

not on to knock on someone's door before 10am unless it's a matter of life and death!

Driving to work the other day (it's a single lane track) one of my neighbour's bins had blown across the road. I got out of my car, and pushed it back onto the verge. I wouldn't have bothered them about it.

I do think 6.30 is a bit early to be knocking on someone's door. Same goes for phone calls. Calls at that hour are usually because someone's died so a call about a trivial thing like a wandering bin would annoy me.

Maybe she was worried the bin was going to break. Are you normally up at 6.30am? If you are, maybe she thought it would be okay to disturb you. I knocked on our old neighbours door a couple of times at 7am due to problems (our heating not working and heaters with my Mum) and joint drain blocked and overflowing) but I knew they got up at 5am. I felt I knew them well enough to do that though.

I hear you, Perfectly. The somewhat superior tone of remarks like 'do you not have DC to get ready for school? Jobs to go to?' gets up my nose, that's all.

Better stop all night shifts immediately. Not like any are essential

well of course they are essential.Just make sure it is not you doing them!

We need to leave the house at 8:50 for getting to work and nursery. Getting up at 8 gives enough time to achieve that. I find however much time I have is how long it takes. The 2 year old is the worst for getting out of bed, she's so lazy.

wowfudge

Just communication

Nope - not at 6:30, no matter how many fecking lights I've got on.

You'd know if I'd seen you in the garden 'cos I'd have shouted "get out of my garden"

Ignore 5plus, they're bored, goady or just not firing on all cylinders.....

*Then, page 8:, in response to Better stop all night shifts immediately. Not like any are essential

You: "well of course they are essential.Just make sure it is not you doing them!"

What if everyone held that attitude?*

I Am new to Mn.
Are Mners always so very literal ?
Do they always consider anything they don't agree with as being goading (or 'goady' in the mn vernacular)?

The neighbour could have moved it just as well as you could; they were clearly making a point! Not your fault, high winds etc
Some people are just bloody thoughtless,
bloody awkward, bloody minded, bloody selfish and bloody stupid!

I've been told in the past that I'm lazy because I get up just after 7. So I would think most people here would not consider 6.30am as early.