AIBU to expect my sister to store my bike briefly?

[AliceNotInChains]

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.

Of course YABvvvvU!

you can’t just put stuff in peoples homes.

it doesn’t matter you’re storing stuff for her. You still ask!!!

Id be fuming too if there was a bike in my hallway! Especially if it was used/dirty as we don’t have outside things in our house and are a shoes off home.

madness. How did you even get in?

You both seem as bad as each other. What's the obsession with buying things you have no room for and then stashing at the others?
You have their keyboard and have previously had garden furniture and then you are dumping your bike at theirs.
If I was them I would ask for my keys back so you were unable to just leave things in the hallway, and I would do the same with them.
You both have a weird relationship and poor communication with each other.

Oh dear. That's not good.

The same sort of person who blows out her nephew's birthday cake candles before he can do it.

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Also none of this is your sisters problem. You should have planned for the storage of the bikes.

Until this post, I was imagining a computer keyboard 😂
Anyway, it's probably not normal for most people to just let themselves in to someome else's home to park a large and awkward object in a high-traffic area of the house without asking, and then be arsey about it when the other people object. You're unreasonable there.

But if that's how you and your sister normally do things, I guess "I'd have space for my own bike in my own house if your sodding keyboard wasn't here" is not an unreasonable argument. Of course, if I didn't have space for a keyboard I own, I wouldn't have space for someone else's bike either, so 🤷

I've just seen that! 😲 It's bizarre....

YABVU!!

Yes, it does make me wonder how she got in.

Unless the OP's sister is like one of those weird Mumsnetters who never lock their door! 😜

Did your sister ASK if she could store the keyboard or did you arrive home one day to find it in situ?

I know right. Very entertaining poster though. 😆

Sounds like she just dumped it there!! Must have a key!

YABU. Put it in your kitchen or living room.

Not your sisters problem, yours.
Did you not even ask permission?

OK, so your sister is storing a piano- sized keyboard at yours but won’t store your bike. Easy solution - the keyboard will now be dragged outside and dumped in your garden. Tell her it needs to be collected today.

And going forward, change your locks, give her back her keys, and stop storing stuff for each other.

A hallway gets alot of traffic, it can be dangerous when you have young children running through it with a potential hazard( the bike) . My dad used to store his bike in the hall, the difference is he waited untill me and my sibs where teenagers, knew it was there, didn't run past it so it wouldn't fall and we where strong enough to move it if we needed to. He wouldn't have done this with young children. I'm not surprised your BIL is angry.

If I were your sister's husband I'd be insisting you have back the key to their house.

But you’re not asking. Sounds like you let yourself into her house and dumped it there without asking first?

You should have sorted out the what to do with two bikes situation before you bought the second one.

unless the keyboard appeared in your house without you first agreeing to store it, it’s a totally different situation.

How did you even get the bike there... did you drive it? Presumably you could have just left it in your car then?

in that case, take the keyboard round to theirs and pop the bike in your living room.

Ah... Right.

did you dump the bike at your sisters because you are annoyed about the keyboard?

your ds husband could be a bit of a bully but it seems like he just has normal boundaries

You are bang out of order - put the new bike in another room in your house.

and stop making such a drama or you will risk a permanent fall out.

Sometimes I'm sad I have no biological family remaining, then I read things like this.