About fucking bin men

[continuallychargingmyphone]

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

Well today here is howling wind and pouring rain ☔️ 🌬 and those bloody bin men are out there doing their job, it's our bin collection day.

I hope whilst I'm sitting in my warm, dry car that they're not deliberately dawdling about, slowly collecting bins, just to wind me up!

Somehow I think they will just be doing there job as quickly and efficiently as they can!

Well, leaving ten minutes earlier today would have made no difference.

How does that work? If you left earlier the truck wouldn't be on your road would it?
Do the bin men park at the end of your drive all morning & sit eating bacon sandwiches?
No? Leave earlier then.

I've had abuse chucked at me for 9 pages

Translation: 'People have disagreed with me'

Nope, Translation: people enjoy being dicks on the internet.

Bertram
You agree with the OP?

I do but that’s irrelevant. Plenty of people have disagreed politely, Made balanced counter arguments but plenty of others have been dicks.

Fair enough.
FWIW, the OP doesn't come across well either.

Maybe not, she does get somewhat lost in the flood of replies though. I gave up a few pages in!

Anyone else read the OPs opener and think she had carnal desires for her refuse collector?

Just me then ...

cosy I’m with you. I thought it was an unique way to get your extra bags taken away to save a trip to the tip.

Where I live the bin men are paid well and they still deliberately park their truck in the middle of the street. They don't start before 9 am anyway so don't suppose they have to be up at the crack of dawn. They also slow down significantly if they see there is a car waiting.
No idea really why they do that, the unemployment rates are low here and there is enough jobs so it is not exactly like they are forced to be bin men...

No, "Vivienne*, they don't park it. They're working, not parking.

i read this title completely differently to how it was meant. HUGE disappointment to see its just a rant about them and youre not engaging in encounters with a truckload of men every monday morning.

@Viviene do you really believe all that? That all bin men in your area have the time and inclination to continually be obstructive whilst doing their job?

@sonandhelpneeded I'm not in the UK :) and believe me, UK bin men work at least twice as fast as my local ones. It's a different attitude to work and politeness is not high on the list of priorities here.

I have an excellent way to foil the attempts of those pesky binmen, OP. See, every Friday if I leave at my normal time I inevitably get stuck behind them as they slowly meander their way, with frequent stops to empty roadside garbage bins, for a 3 mile stretch of no-passing (it's says NO-passing you speed-merchant twats trying to force me into the ditch coming the other way on my side because the drivers on your side aren't going fast enough for your liking) country road. I get around their evil plot to hold me up by leaving a few minutes earlier! Clever, huh?

Of course. Have to time it just right otherwise I hit the bottom of the track from where I live right at the second the local schoolbus driver (who also has it in for me) is meandering his slow way, with frequent stops to pick up schoolchildren, along the same 3 mile stretch of country road. Sometimes you just can't win.