To throw half a rice cake into strangers bin?

[Honeybuney]

I was on my way home from the school run with my 18 month old and older child. Baby had a ricecake with he threw onto the floor, out of the pram. I was in an alleyway type of street with no public bins. I picked up the rice cake and threw it into a wheelie bin which was partially full. As I was doing this, the lady whose house it was, was on her way out. She asked me what I was doing and I explained.

She asked me to take the rice cake out of her bin. Which I did not and continued walking. As I walked off, she was shouting and being quite aggressive. I was with my two kids so just ignored. But was I wrong?

If you're sure it was the right bin then she's bonkers and batshit. I agree that dog poo is a no no, but food items are better off in the right bin and not on the floor!

I wouldn't have an issue of this was me - as long as it's the right bin.

Every one that has an issue, would you have preferred op left it on the ground, atleast she picked it up.

It was definitely the right bin. I guess the reason it didn’t even occur to me is because I wouldn’t mind someone doing the same to me. I would be upset if I leave the house to discover rubbish on the floor, rather than in the bin.

She could have put it on the back or underneath the pram and taken home or put in a public bin. Wrap in a tissue or wet wipe if touching it was such an issue!

A lot of posters saying how weird and uptight to get upset by a rice cake, seemingly ignoring others explanations of how it actually does affect them.

I'm normally intensely relaxed about this sort of thing. But dear God, a decade of living on the corner of a large primary school has made me that woman who - and yes I have - yelled at strangers to get their fucking crap out of my bin!
The rice cakes, the dog poo, the shitty nappies, the coffee cups... and then it's bin day and I have to fish it all out and bag it up or my bin won't get emptied. Were it not for this I wouldn't care, I'd be offering my bin as a community utility!

I feel.extra arsey as it never seems to happen to my neighbours who are mostly million pound houses. But I live in an old pub divided into flats and somehow it makes passers by less respectful of our boundaries. I've also seen a number of parents letting their toddlers pee behind my front wall. I just open the window and tell them that next time they're very welcome to knock at the door and use my bathroom. They just scuttle off, I've never had an apology.

So yeah, just because you don't see the problem doesn't mean there isn't one.

This attitude that bins are private and not to be shared in any circumstance (like dog poo bags, empty juice cartons or other small rubbish) is so bizarre to me. Where I’m from it’s the most natural thing ever to throw small stuff in each other bins when passing and I’m convinced that this is a contributing factor to why it’s not litter everywhere like I experienced during my time in the UK.

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I get all kinds of random stuff in my shared bin but I don’t always see it and the bin men will only take bags. The random stuff then sits at the bottom of the bin as my neighbour puts their bag on top of it. I wish people wouldn’t do it and I would have said something to you if it had been my bin.

I had a very similar situation afew months back, when I put some rubbish in someone's bin, the lady was clearly watching out the window and was out like a shot ranting at me, to which i gave her abit of an earful back.I was feeling rather stressed at the time, and it wasn't my proudest moment, but I wouldn't give two hoots if someone popped abit of rubbish in my wheelie bin...aslong as it wasn't a big black bin bag full or something! DH however disagrees and said he would be annoyed by it (although would go out and challenge someone!)

Why didn't you just crush the rice cake and leave it for the ants?

As for the bin - I can't describe how little I'd care if you put a rice cake in my bin.

This thread is mad.

We aren't allowed to but any food waste in our wheelie bin. We have small food bins.
I live near a school and people do dump their litter in our wheelie bin and our recycling bags.
It is annoying.

I'd have chucked if in the bin as only a rice cake.

Our bin men only take bagged rubbish. Any loose items are left in the bin to go manky, or fall out into my front garden when they pull the bags out.

I’d be pissed off if anyone put anything loose into my bin for this reason.

But why would you do that, if you are standing right by a bin ?

and the bin men will only take bags

That must be specific you your Council.
Here the truck lifts the bin and everything empties into the truck. No binman is rummaging through what is in there.

Presumably, the OP would be aware if her council only took bin bags, or if it were like all the councils that just tip the contents of the bin into the truck.

Getting aggressive over a small rice cake in her bin, really? Crazy!

I don't see the issue, it's not like you put a whole bin bag of rubbish in there. I've seen drink cans in my recycling bin before I didn't put in there, much prefer it to be put in there than left on the floor.

My husband had a women chase after him down the street once to hand him back a bottle she thought he put in her bin, funniest bit was, he didn't even put it in there 😂

Or alternatively the OP could not chuck her litter on someone else's property.

Who wants to fish out a manky rice cake that someone else's toddler has dribbled all over? OP should have done it. It wasn't her property, she had no business putting her rubbish in it. Why should the owner of the bin have to clean up after her?

She and people like her are the reason the motion activated sprinkler was invented.

I would be furious. I wouldn't know where it had been, what animal had peed on it, whatever, my bin is not a communal resource.

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Your poor fingers

Such arrogance

Then you are lucky to live in an are where arseholes don't throw random rubbish in your bin because you can't be arsed to take it home, and that you bin people are kind enough to empty bin with random shit in it

Much sterotyping here; not all bin men are men

Yabu. It'll fall into the bin and go manky, she'll have to fish it out. You should only put bagged waste in a bin.