Neighbour annoyed at me over her bins

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I happened to speak to my neighbour a couple of weeks ago and she mentioned that she was going on holiday and her daughter was staying at home (she looks to be late 20s).

She said to me that her daughter can be a bit lazy and not put the bin out and would I mind doing it for her. I explained that I’d add it to my list but my husband was working away, I was working in the office on the day the bins were put out so I’d be doing mine quickly and I’d have a quick check of hers while the kids were getting into the car in the morning.

anyway, I see the bin sitting outside her house on the morning of bin day so I jumped in the car and went to work.

when she came back from holiday she turned up on my door step furious that her bin hadn’t been put out. Turned out it was the neighbour’s binned positioned in front of her house.

I’d dialled off a work call to answer the door to her and I saw red tbh. I asked why her jobless daughter had a problem putting the bins out when she was sitting in the house.

she stormed off and I haven’t seen her since.

tbh I do feel a bit bad but there was a bin outside the house, unmarked with no house number. Was I to rifle through the bins for signs it was hers? Go to the door at 7am to ask the daughter if it was her bin? Enter her property to check on her bins?

why can’t people just do simple tasks?

Oh, I'm sure you're absolutely going to those lengths in the morning when you're trying to get to work to help out your neighbours (who have a fully capable, functioning adult at home), aren't you?

Give everyone a break.

The knots some people are tying themselves into on this thread to try and justify why the OP is wrong are a truly hilarious spectacle.

I think you could have helped a neighbour out. It takes two minutes to put out a bin. We often do our neighbours when they are away. It's not difficult and means they'll do ours for us so win-win! I don't think the fact her daughter was there is relevant. Some young people are fucking useless so she was trying to avoid a maggoty bin by asking you. And it's not really a big ask.

Having said that had I asked a neighbour and they'd agreed, I wouldn't go round having a go if they didn't do it/forgot! That's odd. People are doing you a favour, you don't go round shouting at people because they've not done you a favour.

Why didn't you just tell her what happened and that there is no need for her fury?

Just read the ruddy post properly!!

I think you could have read a post and saved yourself time typing that nonsense out.

Why would you have to ask someone in their late twenties if they’re getting ok without their mum, and to shout if they need you!! The dozy mare should have put the bin out, and that’s it.

Christ this thread is bonkers.

I think that you’ve had some mad answers.

Yanbu to assume that the bin outside your neighbour’s house was hers and that her dd should be able to do something so basic.

I don’t like getting up early on bin day so I bring out my wheelie bin the night before . That way the bin men always take my bin.

Hopefully she will never ask you again.

Fuck me, some people on MN must be absolute pushovers IRL if they think you were wrong 😂

@Growlybear83 OP agreed to help her neighbour who asked her to put the bin out She assumed quite understanably that the bin she saw belonged to said neighbour and that the daughter had put it out, how is OP at fault??

I explained that I’d add it to my list but my husband was working away, I was working in the office on the day the bins were put out so I’d be doing mine quickly and I’d have a quick check of hers while the kids were getting into the car in the morning.

Why didn't you say no?

I did read the fucking post. Don’t be so rude and presumptuous.

Don't write utter nonsense and someone won't tell you not to write nonsense. It's really simple.

OP saw a bin outside the house, assumed the daughter (who is an adult entirely capable of putting a bin out) had put the bin out and that was that. If you'd read the post-you'd have seen that part-and not suggested that the OP could have put the bin out. The bin that she already assumed was out?

Christ-if that's you reading the whole post-your reading comprehension is atrocious.

Did you miss the bit where she checked and there was a bin outside her neighbour’s house?!

If you had read it, you would surely have seen the bit where there was a bin outside her neighbour’s house. She was on her way to work and on seeing that, thought it was done. That’s why people assume you didn’t read it…

This!

The sense of entitlement on MN never fails to amaze me.
Deal with your own skanky bins neighbour's dd.

Why would you wait till 7am instead of just putting it out the night before ?

Well you know what assuming does.

My point is that she should just have agreed to put the bin out, rather than just saying she’d check that the daughter had put the bin out. Which she seemed to say as she thought the daughter should be doing it. Which she probably should, but the neighbour was asking for a very small favour as she knew the daughter probably wouldn’t/would forget and understandably doesn’t want maggoty bins. My point was that it was a small ask so she probably just should have agreed put it out in which case the random bin is not really relevant as if she was going she’d have know it wasn’t the right bin.

Bin her off.

This.
Before I would bother a neighbour when my child was in the house and well able to do a simple task.
And then to be annoyed with you.
A CF is what she is.

This thread is wild. Lolling at the posters falling all over themselves to defend the daughter and tell the OP she didn’t do enough.

I know it’s what happens here, posters always take against an OP, but surely even the die-hards can see this one is a bit of a stretch?! 😂

A few reasons but mainly that I was really busy the night before with the children’s activities, making dinner, cleaning the house. By the time
i sat my arse on the couch I was dead beat so the bin went out in the morning.

Yep!

What ridiculous comments you have had! You went over and above when you were willing to check, you checked and the bin was there, the neighbour should be mad at her daughter, or maybe even the bright hour who purposely fooled you with their badly positioned bin…jokes lol your neighbour is ridiculous