Encouraged by SaffyBoo's bin problem, I have a dilemma. Had other issues with neighbours in the past but this is a bin one.
I live in a flat, in a house. All flats have their own bins with the flat numbers clearly painted on by someone who must have lived here before we moved in.
Our bins are stored next to the house on the path leading to a garage behind the property. Bin day is Tuesday so I wheel my bin out to the pavement to be emptied (council won't empty bins unless they're on the pavement in front of the house) on the Monday night. Another flat (neighbour 2) does the same. The third flat (neighbour 3) don't. If it weren't for me or neighbour 2 sometimes wheeling out neighbour 3's bin, it would never get emptied.
They also don't put their bin back after it's been emptied and it ends up on the pavement wherever it happens to be left after emptying. Sometimes it's halfway up the road. Neighbour 3 doesn't return their bin to the path if this is the case. They just leave it where it is and put their rubbish into our bins. Sometimes their bin ends up outside next door's house. If this is the case, they leave it there and use it. Next door neighbour get fed up with this and wheel it back for them.
Neighbour 2 and I often discuss this. Do we just leave neighbour 3's bin where it is so it doesn't get emptied or wheel it out so it does?
We have reminded them countless times that Tuesday is bin day and that they must put their bin on the pavement to be emptied, but they still don't.
Why? What is going through their minds? Just can't get my head around it.
What's more, on Monday evenings, when our bins are on the pavement, neighbour 3 sometimes puts their rubbish bags into our bins rather than make the extra few steps to the path to put them in their bin. We always remove their bags and put them in their bins if this happens.