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Couldn’t she put her bin back herself

62 replies

ZML · 03/11/2025 15:49

Today around 9am, it was bin day and after the bins were emptied, there was strong breezes.

I was driving out of my road. I had to stop to get a bin that blew onto the road. I just moved the bin to pavement in front of the house - number on bin.

As getting into my car to drive off the woman of the house opened her front door and yelled at me for touching her bin.

Why couldn’t she take the bin in herself? Bins were emptied 1-2 hours before.

What was I supposed to do? Drive over it to damage it and my car?

OP posts:
Hollyhobbi · 04/11/2025 08:50

SouthernNights59 · 03/11/2025 19:45

Seriously!?? It gets windy where I live and I am always picking up empty bins that have fallen over as I walk around the streets. I can't imagine that anyone who saw me would yell at me for doing so, or imagine in their wildest dreams that I was trying to steal one. Why on earth would anyone steal a bin Confused

To set them on fire. I wish I was making this up! Feral youths are a thing near where I live.

CunningLinguist2 · 04/11/2025 08:51

BMW6 · 03/11/2025 17:57

The bloody bin had blown ONTO THE ROAD!

What kind of a moron would expect drivers to just crash into it or swerve around it? Or tries to defend the twat who owns the bin?

Rather suspect reply was very tongue in cheek :D

ItIsNotTheDog · 04/11/2025 08:53

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 03/11/2025 16:25

You can't go around touching others people's bins. She probably thought you were trying to steal it.

This is a wind up and you're all falling for it

BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind · 04/11/2025 08:59

YANBU that the woman was OTT to react like that

YABU to expect people to run outside and move their bin in the moment it's emptied

popcornandpotatoes · 04/11/2025 09:04

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 03/11/2025 16:25

You can't go around touching others people's bins. She probably thought you were trying to steal it.

Don't be so bloody ridiculous

Spanador · 04/11/2025 09:06

Dearg · 04/11/2025 07:37

People, I really think @didntlikeanyofthesuggestions was being funny.

Maybe it’s too early to laugh 🤷🏻‍♀️

People need to look out for that username across other threads, they always come out with something sarcastic and everyone falls for it and takes it seriously. I notice them everywhere nowGrin

pestowithwalnuts · 04/11/2025 09:25

FunMustard · 03/11/2025 16:26

Don't be so ridiculous. It's a bin, and OP had just got out of a car.

Honestly.

Lol.. bingate.
What else was OP supposed to do..leave it laying in the road ?
If she hadn't moved it someone else would have.

tygertygers · 04/11/2025 09:29

after spotting my neighbours fingering my bins I put a big sticker on my bin that says DO NOT TOUCH. Clear communication is important, especially in a cul de sac.

BruisedNeckMeat · 04/11/2025 09:32

Good for you, OP!

Phoenixfire1988 · 04/11/2025 09:47

defrazzled · 03/11/2025 16:28

I'd have starred her dead in the eye and chucked it back in the road. What a massive knobhead.

I'd of dragged it to the other end of the street while doing the same !

myheadsjustmush · 04/11/2025 10:20

And your neighbour should now be referred to as the Batty Bin Bird at number x 😂

JillMW · 04/11/2025 16:43

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 03/11/2025 16:25

You can't go around touching others people's bins. She probably thought you were trying to steal it.

Haha! Judging by the responses to this it seems many folk popped their soh in the wheelie bin!

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