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AIBU to expect my sister to store my bike briefly?

316 replies

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:08

On Friday I bought a new bike off marketplace. I currently have my old bike in my hallway as I need to clean it up and sell it so I took my new bike to my sisters and popped it in the hallway. She was at work so I sent her a message saying I’ve temporarily put a bike in her hallway and it will be moved in about a weeks time. Didn’t hear anything back until evening when she messaged telling me to come and move the bike. I told her I had nowhere to put it until I sell my old one but reassured her I’d be cleaning it up over weekend and will list it on Monday.

Yesterday morning she sent another message saying her husband was fuming about the bike saying it was “ruining their hallway” and he wanted it moved. I said it will be moved asap.

This morning I got up to see my new bike sat in front of my house on the driveway. I’ve messaged her and she said she didn’t do it, her husband did. So I said I’m bringing it back as it can’t stay on the driveway because obviously it will get stolen!! Not to mention weather damage. She replied saying not to bring it back or her DH will simply leave it in the street.

Im fuming because there has been many times they have stored stuff at my house and I’ve had to just work around it.

Anyway they have a keyboard at my house and I’ve told her either the bike gets stored there for a few days max or the keyboard goes to live outside. She’s not replied yet.

AIBU?? I could get my bike sold by Wednesday.

OP posts:
AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:06

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 19/04/2026 13:01

You asked to borrow the keyboard?? Well that completely changes that.

Yes but now she won’t take it back!

OP posts:
outerspacepotato · 19/04/2026 13:08

viques · 19/04/2026 12:01

No! You have to be kidding? Not the bathroom grabber?

(a private message to the sister. take the bulbs out of your hallway lights, you know some people aren’t prepared to walk into places they think are spooky.)

😂

purpleme12 · 19/04/2026 13:09

Ok if she doesn't want it back then she's given it to you so you can keep it or chuck it

Clarify that with her and act accordingly

Chilly80 · 19/04/2026 13:09

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:06

Yes but now she won’t take it back!

Sell it then

Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 13:09

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:56

I borrowed it but I have my own now yet nowhere to put it and sister has nowhere to put hers so I’m stuck with it for now

Where was your sister storing it before you borrowed it?

Why did you borrow it if you were getting your own?

Why did you get your own before returning hers? Surely it would have made more sense to just keep using hers if she didn’t want it back…. Or offered to buy it off her?

It definitely changes the situation though, and if you’d put in your op that you’d asked your sister to borrow the keyboard I think you’d have had even more vote YABU. Seems a very odd thing to borrow though.

Delphiniumandlupins · 19/04/2026 13:15

Chilly80 · 19/04/2026 13:09

Sell it then

And buy a bike storage shed or a cover. And a lock.

BudgetBuster · 19/04/2026 13:18

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:06

Yes but now she won’t take it back!

😂😂 OP you are actually hilarious

She isn't storing the keyboard at yours.. YOU BORROWED IT.

I really hope your BIL shives the poxy bike out on the road and doesn't put up with your obnoxious attitude. He'll have to get over it... no he absolutely will not have to. Stop talking such rubbish and grow up.

Delphiniumandlupins · 19/04/2026 13:18

Why have you bought a bike that isn't designed to be outdoors? I don't think a few days (as you claim) is going to result in much rusting.

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:18

Chilly80 · 19/04/2026 13:09

Sell it then

No she wants it back eventually

OP posts:
purpleme12 · 19/04/2026 13:18

This thread will go on forever 😆

Jollyhockeystickss · 19/04/2026 13:19

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:30

I don’t live in a flat, I live in a house with a small hallway.

She lives in a house with lots of rooms and a garden and probably a shed but for some effed up reason broke into her sisters and put her bike in their hallway, im not surprised the husband brought the bike back, i think it was very kind of him to bring it back, it would have been put outside if it was me ,

Dragonscaledaisy · 19/04/2026 13:20

purpleme12 · 19/04/2026 13:18

This thread will go on forever 😆

Yeah it sounds like they both own a load of junk that needs a skip to dispose of it. What a lot of stupid drama.

Drpawpawspaw · 19/04/2026 13:21

We’re talking here about an OP who thought it entirely reasonable to blow out her little nephews birthday cake candles and having to post a thread about it asking if she was out of line.

snack short of a meal deal….

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:22

Jollyhockeystickss · 19/04/2026 13:19

She lives in a house with lots of rooms and a garden and probably a shed but for some effed up reason broke into her sisters and put her bike in their hallway, im not surprised the husband brought the bike back, i think it was very kind of him to bring it back, it would have been put outside if it was me ,

I did NOT break in! What a ridiculous suggestion. I have a key.

OP posts:
Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 13:28

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:22

I did NOT break in! What a ridiculous suggestion. I have a key.

Did you have permission to enter her house on that occasion to put your bike in there? If not - you broke in. Doesn’t matter whether you had a key or the door was unlocked.

Chilly80 · 19/04/2026 13:28

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:18

No she wants it back eventually

Seems an even trade bike for keyboard storage

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:30

Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 13:28

Did you have permission to enter her house on that occasion to put your bike in there? If not - you broke in. Doesn’t matter whether you had a key or the door was unlocked.

Maybe in your world. In our world we have keys so we can get in each others houses. It’s normal for us. I was at work once and my sister decided to spend the day at mine as her boiler was broken and she had no heating. She knew not to bother asking permission.

OP posts:
BudgetBuster · 19/04/2026 13:32

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 13:30

Maybe in your world. In our world we have keys so we can get in each others houses. It’s normal for us. I was at work once and my sister decided to spend the day at mine as her boiler was broken and she had no heating. She knew not to bother asking permission.

But maybe now your BIL will have the good sense to change the locks on his house

Catwalking · 19/04/2026 13:44

So don’t you ever lock your bike or, use your bike outside in ‘weather’.
get a small tarp(to wrap bikes in) & put bike/s in the back garden? (where there’s apparently enough space for a whole set of your sisters garden furniture without you even noticing it was there?!)
could prob put the keyboard under the tarp too?

hypnovic · 19/04/2026 14:02

Wildly unreasonable yes CF

YourWildAmberSloth · 19/04/2026 14:02

You were being unreasonable to just dump it there without asking first, especially as your sister shares a home. Presumably you agreed to the keyboard being there, so it's not the same as coming home from work and finding it in your living room.

AprilMizzel · 19/04/2026 14:07

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:17

Not when she regularly does it to me. I came home to find a load of garden furniture in my garden once as she’d bought it but wanted to clean up her garden first, she never asked or even told me it was there!

Right well I did think you were odd and rude dumping a bike in someone else's hallway with no prior agreement - but honestly it does appear she does similar to you - so does make it all seem a bit meaner to you.

Suspect BIL would like both of you to stop doing it.

jacks11 · 19/04/2026 14:12

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 12:59

It will rust.

and BIL will just have to get over it, it’s only a couple of days

Did they agree to take the bike back or did you just go back and dump it without permission?

If I was your BIL, I would either take the bike back to yours, or leave it in the garden- if it gets stolen or rusts, then it’s nothing to do with me.

INeedAnotherName · 19/04/2026 14:24

viques · 19/04/2026 12:01

No! You have to be kidding? Not the bathroom grabber?

(a private message to the sister. take the bulbs out of your hallway lights, you know some people aren’t prepared to walk into places they think are spooky.)

What?? Who takes the bulbs out of hallways?

@AliceNotInChains get a tarp and a decent bike lock and leave the new bike in your garden.

HotGazpacho · 19/04/2026 14:26

Did you borrow it, or did you let yourself in and nick it?