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AIBU?

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to think that leaving your bikes in someone else's garden is a bit out of order?

21 replies

spicemonster · 01/06/2008 20:22

My sister lives in a house on the corner opposite the park. She has a wall round the garden and a little front gate. When she came home today, there were two bikes in her front garden - a girl's bike and a little wooden trike. She assumed someone had dumped them so took the trike into the house as it was in good nick and she thought my DS might like it. She moved the other bike round the side of the house. An hour or so later, she saw movement out the kitchen window which is at the back of the house. She went out the back door and there was a woman wheeling away the girl's bike. My sister asked her what she was doing and she said (without apology) that she had left her bicycles in my sister's garden while she went to the park. My sister said she'd thought they'd been dumped. Gosh no, said the woman. If I was going to dump them, I'd have left them next to your bin! The woman then asked her where the trike was so my sister told her to go to the front door, got the trike, gave it to her and slammed the door in her face.

AIBU to think this woman was behaving outrageously? You don't just park your bikes in someone else's garden do you?

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PinkChick · 01/06/2008 20:24

she obv does it all the time as she didnt bat an eye lid..im constantly amaized at the cheek of some people!

getbackinyouryurtjimjams · 01/06/2008 20:28

2 oldish ladies parked up and had a picnic in my Mum and Dad's front garden once.

spicemonster · 01/06/2008 20:33

yurt! Bloody hell! I can't believe the cheek of some people

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LynetteScavo · 01/06/2008 20:35
Grin
getbackinyouryurtjimjams · 01/06/2008 20:42

My Dad asked them what they were doing and they said they hadn't realised the moors would finish so soon so they thought they ought to stop for their picnic before they reached the city centre. Dad was so surprised he just told them to enjoy their food

sherbetdipdab · 01/06/2008 20:52

I got the fright of my life the other week when a boy cycled into our front garden, parked his bike under our front window and when I asked what he was doing he said, in an annoyed tone, "I'm going to the shop" I was so angry. when he got back I asked him why he left it in our garden and he said he does it whenever he goes to the shop! I told him he can't do it anymore, don't know why it upset me so much but I was shaking with anger, he was so cheeky about it, as if I was in the wrong. We live next to a village police station with bike racks too so he can leave it there.
Some people have no boundaries.

quint · 01/06/2008 20:57

Well if it happens again, and you don't like it pick the bike up and dump it on the pavement.

quint · 01/06/2008 20:58

BTW you are right, it is out of order and very rude too

BroccoliSpears · 01/06/2008 21:02

WTF?

People are really this upset about someone leaving a bike in their garden? Why? Were you using that particular patch of garden at the time?

Why not make it your random act of kindness to not mind someone leaving their bike where it won't get stolen? Feel happy that you are helping someone out at no cost or hassle to yourself.

warthog · 01/06/2008 21:04

it is an imposition. she should have asked.

spicemonster · 01/06/2008 21:05

If I leave my front door unlocked I don't expect complete strangers to come in and have a sit down on the sofa if I'm not in the room. I don't see this is any different

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falcon · 01/06/2008 21:07

YANBU.

I'd be furious too, my garden is not public property!

I'd have been out there with a big stick, ok perhaps not with a big stick but entering my garden without just cause would be enough to annoy me.

It's beyond rude to presume that one can leave one's belongings in someones garden and that the owner won't mind, or has no reason to complain.

ib · 01/06/2008 21:11

We regularly have people coming into our garden for picnics. The weird thing is that we are the only house for miles in any direction - all around are fields where they could go. But they always seem to try to come as close to the house as they can. We have no idea why.

Millarkie · 01/06/2008 21:29

We had someone park their car on our drive for 3 hours this afternoon. And dh wouldn't let me go and put a note on the windscreen because it wasn't blocking our cars in...but still
And to think I used to get annoyed enough when the students renting the flat above our old one used to lock their bike to the drainpipe in our garden and wake me up at unearthly hours whilst doing so.

findtheriver · 01/06/2008 21:33

Can I just confess that I was once guilty of picnicing in someone's garden. But in my defence, it was in France, where they don't seem to go in for flower beds etc. So me and my mates thought it was just a sort of nice grassy picnic spot.
Je regrette, whoever you were.

jammi · 01/06/2008 21:35

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falcon · 01/06/2008 21:35

You're far nicer than I'd be about the parked car, I'd have called the police to report an abandoned car.

I remember my mother telling me about someone who was foolish enough to do so outside an Army recruitment centre in Glasgow,next to her shop.

This was at the height of the IRA bombings and the bomb squad were called to ''dispose of it'' aka destroy it.

I can just imagine the owners face when he or she came back from a few hours shopping.

milliec · 01/06/2008 21:35

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cadelaide · 01/06/2008 21:37

I don't think the parking of the bikes in itself is that bad.

Sounds like her attitude was a bit off, though.

ButterflyMcQueen · 01/06/2008 21:39

once when i was a girl we woke one morning to a horse tid up in our front garden

bizarre

yanbu

getbackinyouryurtjimjams · 01/06/2008 23:30

pmsl ib - that's bizarre.

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