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Original poster

About fucking bin men

241 replies

continuallychargingmyphone · 27/11/2018 07:46

Completely blocking the street. All they had to do was move up to pass parked cars and let people pass. Asked them to move and got ‘we’ve got a job to do!’

Yes, because I was going nowhere Confused

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TenForward82 · 27/11/2018 07:51
Biscuit
Finfintytint · 27/11/2018 07:52

Ours obstruct the road for a matter of seconds. No biggie. I can wait.

RayRayBidet · 27/11/2018 07:53

Best not to piss them off.

moredoll · 27/11/2018 07:55

We LOVE the bin men. So much so that one of us is getting a toy bin lorry at Christmas. We don't drive though.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 27/11/2018 07:55

Not sure what I’ll make of a neighbour going round fucking bin men, but whatever works for you.

rslsys · 27/11/2018 07:57

Seems a bit extreme, we just give ours a tin of sweets to share as a Christmas box . . .

Original poster
continuallychargingmyphone · 27/11/2018 07:58

Not like that ...

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Sirzy · 27/11/2018 07:59

Patience is a virtue!

They are trying to do their job. A job made much harder by people parking cars in the road!

It’s only going to take them a few minutes before they are moving on.

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continuallychargingmyphone · 27/11/2018 07:59

Oh and ten you’d be ok with being unable to leave your street for 10 minutes when you need to get to work? Sure? You wouldn’t be annoyed at all?

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LEMtheoriginal · 27/11/2018 07:59

Well of you insist on fucking them they are bound to hang around...a polite good morning should suffice. They have a job to do go a different way

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continuallychargingmyphone · 27/11/2018 07:59

They needed to move maybe 100 yards and they could still do their job.

People have to park on the road. Only a few newer houses have off road parking.

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WaxOnFeckOff · 27/11/2018 08:00

Appreciate they have a job to do but local to us, they block the route to high school at school start time on bin day. School is fairly rural so has lots of staff and pupils traveling and not many other ways to go. Anyway unfortunately that's the route, they won't deviate it so you just have to suck it up. Some are okay and try to get on as quickly as they can or wave cars last when they can see it's clear. My DH drives an ambulance and says some of them deliberately block the ambulance! Not blue lighted fortunately but still inconvenient when you might have elderly patients waiting.

Finfintytint · 27/11/2018 08:00

Just leave earlier on bin day then.

OrchidInTheSun · 27/11/2018 08:00

Where I live they come pretty much the same time every week. So I plan my journey that day accordingly.

BoldComicSans · 27/11/2018 08:01

They stop where the loaders can.. load the bins. Should they have to put heavy bins further just for you? Most come at a similar time.. leave earlier?

CloserIAm2Fine · 27/11/2018 08:03

YABU

Can you not understand that if they move 100 yards, that’s much further to walk back and forth with yours and your neighbours rubbish, which means it’ll take longer which means they’ll be blocking the road for longer

Maybe you and your neighbours should park more considerately.

Or just leave 10 minutes earlier on bin day.

I’m sure none of them want to fuck you with that attitude either!

DianaT1969 · 27/11/2018 08:03

You want them to move 100 yds on your street, someone else wants them to move 80 yds on the next street. That would be every street/most streets then? They just have to get the job done. Fo you have a regular bin day? So you know which day you can leave earlier to avoid?

naicepineapple · 27/11/2018 08:03

Leave a bit earlier the day they come.

BoldComicSans · 27/11/2018 08:03

Plus they are doing as they are told. Doing their job. It is not the driver or the loaders doing this to annoy you. It is management / council that comes up with the rules.

SnuggyBuggy · 27/11/2018 08:04

Surely as long as it's always the same time you just plan round it

Polidori · 27/11/2018 08:04

YABVVU
It doesn't take long.
When it's bin day factor it into your commute.
If they stopped the machine, started the van, moved a few yards and then started again every time an impatient commuter asked them to, their round would take hours and hours longer.

BertramKibbler · 27/11/2018 08:05

Now now OP! You should know it’s not ok to criticise services on MN. They can do no wrong!

Never mind the fact they seem to alternate between coming out at 6am and waking us all up or blocking the road when I’m off on the school run.

Never mind that they leave the streets strewn with broken glass and mouldy food every week.

Never mind that they leave the bins completely blocking the pavements so wheel chair users can’t get passed.

Original poster
continuallychargingmyphone · 27/11/2018 08:08

I swear some posters would say you were unreasonable here if you suggested giving Lottery winnings to charity. I need a diagram ...

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continuallychargingmyphone · 27/11/2018 08:08

You live near me bert? Grin

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paintinmyhairAgain · 27/11/2018 08:09

we have cars honking their horns after 10 seconds outside our place, i often feel like yelling 'shut the fuck up you twunts !' at them. it is literally a couple of minutes if that.
any one remember the fun times with the bin men striking in early 1979 ? i'm happy to wait a few minutes for them to collect after having lived through that, esp as most of the country was spilling over with uncollected refuse.