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?

Reading this thread is EYE OPENING!! People treating their bins like they bathe in them and must be sanitary! It's literally a bin... for rubbish!! Mumsnet never ceases to amaze!

Some people are arseholes. Imagine being cross about a rice cake in a bin

Very odd of woman to question you.

Really rude of her to shout at you.

So are some Councils. Truthfully you have no idea how strict bin collection is. Our bins have to be sighted permanently in our front Gardens close to the pavement. Quite a few people padlock them to stop passers by using them. If they refuse to empty the bin we have to dispose of our rubbish ourselves. Many of my neighbours don’t drive.

Quite.

I can’t even believe this is a debate

Well, @TeenLifeMum I will agree with you on that.

Bins are literally designed for putting rubbish in.
I can't see why you are getting so worked up about it.

Nobody round here would put rubbish in other people’s bins. Really eye opening how rude and entitled some people are and how open about it they are.

you were very rude- why didnt you take it out when she asked you to?

But "rude" is clearly subjective.

Some people seem to think it is rude, whereas plenty of others think it is common sense.

A quick Google tells you it’s classed as “anti social behaviour” so, no, it’s not subjective, there’s just lots of rude people around.

This thread is AMAZING
“my bin smells gorgeous because we are so clean, even our rubbish is sterile”
“it’s antisocial behaviour”
“it’s fly tipping”
“Fishing out germy ricecakes”
”ITLL CAUSE MAGGOTS!!!”

Im so glad there are people like this in the world, to give the rest of us something to laugh at 😂