About fucking bin men

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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

I've never knowingly fucked a bin man. I like the noise of the bins though. it's rhythmical, so might try it. Especially the recycling one which is blue.

Thinking about it, when I've encountered binmen here they've generally moved over when it is safe to do so. They do need a lot of space to operate and manoeuvre in so there aren't always appropriate gaps.

I just don't get mad over 10 minutes of my life. It's nothing.

I very often have to wait ages for the farmer to get all his dairy cows from one field to another. It's just life isn't it?

There was me about to get a job as a bin man

Trouble is, you're putting your desire not to be inconvenienced ahead of potential safety issues and ability to complete the job in time for the people who take the bins.

Which, essentially, means you consider yourself and your job to be more important and worthy of consideration than theirs. So, YABVU

Leave earlier on bin day. Simple

I very often have to wait ages for the farmer to get all his dairy cows from one field to another. It's just life isn't it?

We have actual cow crossing lights You can see the tension on the driver coming the other way’s face as the red light hits!

Jaques my farmer only has a bit of rope to put across the road.

I quite like watching them TBH ambling their way along.

I quite like watching them TBH ambling their way along

Me too!

The lights are over an A road so I guess a rope wouldn’t be too visible?

OP posts on AIBU. Gets told by some she/he is BU. Gets rude when she/he doesn't get the answer she/he wants.

I plan for the bin routes. Weirdly on for completely stuck this morning after a car parked really badly. They were all out trying their best to get through the very narrow gap. All this during school run time.
I felt bad for them. It’s freezing I doubt anyone wakes up thinking yesss more bins and I’ll put money down people like you moaning aren’t something new to them.
So what I’m trying to say is, avoid either the times the bin trucks are down your route or avoid the route.

One got not on for

I get annoyed by this sometimes, but really, it doesn't take long! And the way the OP talks about bin men is very unpleasant, and also the way she addresses posters on AIBU who disagree with her. Very entitled.

@JacquesHammer I’m so glad I came on this thread for your comment alone. Cow crossing lights. Brilliant

Cow crossing lights. Brilliant

In my head they had cunningly organised a method to press the button themselves. Sadly, a farmer accompanies them.

Illusions shattered!

Ah, the age old AIBU tradition...

OP: AIBU?
Everyone: Yes
OP: No I'm not.

p.s. we have sheep here. Takes them 30 mins to get down the road. I also quite like seeing them.

I was about to ask how the cows press the button!

It’s once every two weeks where I live, at most you are inconvenienced by 10 mins on a weekly basis.

Honestly, If you are that stressed by this possible weekly event, I suggest you take a good look at your life. No one would feel the need to start a thread about a minor inconvenience, unless they’ve got much bigger issues that they re not dealing with.

I wouldn’t fancy being a bin man either. However I have done my share of shitty jobs. It isn’t that I’ve got a high powered job to go to, I am a normal person living a normal life and I was very stressed this morning. The whole ‘well leave earlier then’ is true but I’m already leaving half an hour earlier to avoid roadworks.

The street is narrow but widens. There would have been loads of room there. It wasn’t just me it held up.

Why I would goad about this I don’t know ... I’m at the point of leaving. I am utterly miserable and heartsick and now have to factor in leaving my home which I already see hardly anything of ten minutes earlier on Tuesdays because a bin man won’t move a few yards.

YABU. You could spend that lengthy couple of minute or two counting your blessings that we have that service.

First world problem OP!

I'm SO glad I live rurally... I don't have this problem at all. Single track lanes, and lovely bin men who are nice & friendly, courteous and tidy. And give your dog a biscuit when they pass your house...

Mind, every car journey is a minimum of an hour, so there's a payoff. Can't have everything.

It's ten minutes. Just ten minutes.

Ten minutes which has a knock on effect on the rest of the day