To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?

[alwwyd]

My next door neighbours are just very inconsiderate people. They need their own thread.

Our houses are attached but we have separated driveways with a clear line of gravel between them and a partial hedge.

We both keep our bins on the driveway and today I’ve gone out to put my bin back and they’ve shoved my (different) bin and placed their bin on my driveway. I moved it back and it’s heavy so it didn’t blow across.

I know this is a none thread, but it does annoy me how petty some people are. Like just why do it? 🙄 anyone have other petty neighbour stories?

(yes I’ve been sad enough to go a diagram)

It's been decades since I heard Hecky thump 😂

And apparently I have never talked proper according to others from childhood. One year my school mates tried to teach me to say one and won, which sound the same to me. I ended up saying wun (almost like a gruff dog bark) for one just to shut them up. They seemed happy. Weirdos.

To be honest, as petty as she is, putting them in her garden was a bit of an arsey thing to do. I’d have quietly cut them and put them in my own garden bin…

Also OP, I’m guessing there’s a lot more to this story because I really couldn’t get het up over a wheely bin being on my side of the shared driveway. What I will say is my NDN rarely drags her bin back in on bin day and it’s usually left outside our drive by the bin men (sometimes blocking our drive) so that does irritate me rather irrationally almost every week.

Bloody hell there are some argumentative and petty posters on this thread, and lately I’ve had my fill of pedantic arseholes on this site!

OP I’m with you, your neighbours are clearly being wankers, there is a definite line/boundary and they have actively moved your bin and placed there there, it’s not like a fucking cat knocked into it. Yeah shove it back, stare at them, ignore them, but ultimately remember, some folk are just FUCKING WEIRD!

@alwwyd if they do this again, I would be buying some posts and a roll of chicken wire to put a fence from the front right up to the hedge!

Tbh I would find this annoying. It's their bin so should remain in their property. There is no reason or need for them to push the bin on to your driveway. Would they pay damage to your car if the bin was to fall over etc?

And coming onto a thread correcting someone’s SPaG when it wasn’t asked for isn’t? (Oh, and also telling people how they should and should not pronounce things!)

Language is my hobby. Also my profession.

Intereresting word ‘hobby’. Do you know the Latin name for the Eurasian hobby, which is a sort of falcon?

It’s ‘subbuteo’. The football game’s name means ‘the hobby’.

Wow, you got me… I’m so impressed.

I studied language and much prefer the dialectal and colloquial side of it, but I don’t bring it up on a thread that has nothing to do with it!

You should. It might be interesting.

SPaG is spelling, punctuation and grammar - nothing to do with pronunciation.

We have specific bags for kitchenwaste. My neighbour puts his leaking stinking bag in front of my house, under my window. Every week. I wait till he's out and put it next to his frontdoor. Also every week.

If this is the first time they've done this, ignore it. If it happens repeatedly, put black treacle on their bins handles.

Top marks for the diagrams.

Just to drag this thread - like the proverbial bin - back to where it belongs, do you think they pushed the bin over the gravel/hedge, or did they march it right up your driveway from the street? A nudge over the boundary could be casual, but to make the decision to use your drive right back at the street shows serious intent.

Scone pronounced as in gone. Scone as in own is very Mrs Bucket pronounced Bouquet

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❤️ the black treacle suggestion @MarvellousMonsters.

Sorry I don’t get it. Who cares where the bin is ? I don’t understand the diagram at all

Was it them or careless refuse collectors returning them randomly?

I can see the grinch!!! And facing either left or right it seems to have a winky and a tail!!! Made me chuckle!!
In all seriousness though the rearrangement of bins is something I would be very petty about!! My bins are sacred and when one of my neighbours continuously stole my favourite one it sent me into full on binwar!! It’s ongoing now 20 months later!! (As I said SACRED!!)….. now I’m off to chuckle some more about Mr Grinch winky-tail, whilst watching my neighbour look for her new bin…. “Jokes” (not a joke!)……

You need to give Caspar the Alien a bit of growth hormone so that he goes all along the drive right up to the door. That'll sort them out.

Could it have been the binmen? Our binmen move bins round all over the place. I don’t mean leave them roughly where they were left out but untidily, I mean quite neatly against the wall separating houses from pavement but outside the wrong house, sometimes some distance down the road. I once had 5 recycling bins lined up against my front wall.

The initial person was talking about non versus none - so … maybe don’t stick your nose in where it doesn’t belong?

Nah. It’s petty and snobby. Has a touch of classism to it too.

Actually, Puddles, the conversation moved on to pronunciation.
Who are you to tell me where to “stick my nose in”? Do you have the position of policing MN? Does HQ know?
Have you ever reflected upon how offensive you are? I think you should.

I do when you’re replying to me!! I know what I was talking about - you clearly do not. In fact I even mentioned the pronunciation issue in brackets after mentioning the SPaG issue, so maybe read things properly before replying?

Don’t get arsey with me when you got the hump first. Nice one not tagging me as well.

Hardly offensive is it - if you think it is you’ve lived a very sheltered and privileged life.

You are 100% correct.

That's why I didn't make any comment at all about what was the right way to pronounce the words.

I explained to a confused poster who didn't understand what the OP had written that she had incorrectly written ""a none post" rather than "a non-post".

I suggested that this written mistake makes more sense if you pronounce both words the same, northern English-style. If they sound the same, why wouldn't you assume they are written the same?