Aibu to have reported the dustbin lorry to the council?

[Bumpyroads]

Bit of back story us and our next door neighbours quietly dislike each other. Nobody has really said anything but I know we both annoy each other from what is said about the street. They moan about us, things we do etc.

Recently they have been playing loud music in the garden at the weekends in a passive aggressive way. This started when they complained about our chickens being noisy ( we have rehomed the chickens because of this but thats another story) the reason I'm saying all of this is because in general I am just in a bad mood about our neighbours and don't know if this has tainted my reaction.

So next door neighbour is a bin man, he wasn't at work.
Bin lorry come and parks up across my drive . Workmen get out and go in neighbours house/garden for 40 minutes having a drink and break. All this time I was unable to get off or access my drive. There was a bin lorry parked unattended across it.

So husband rings to complain to the council. They were confused as on their tracker the lorry was supposedly elsewhere. They also agreed 40minutes was excessive but said they must have been emptying bins? No they were having a cuppa at my neighbours! Council are going to investigate, I suspect they were taking unauthorised breaks and turning the tracker off.. maybe.

Anyway the reason this has also annoyed me so much is our neighbours have lived hear 30+ years and act like they own the street. Complain about anything we do (leaves from our trees fall in their garden for example.) They are 60+ and set in their ways and we are a young family. Tbh I just dont think they like us, we normally don't rise to it and smile and wave etc. But this time I had had enough and complained.

Aibu? And have we just started ww3?

I'd be very surprised if they are allowed to deviate from their round at all without good (operational) reasons

My knowledge comes from the insurance claims side of things and bin lorries quite often end up involved in car insurance claims etc.

Hmmm from your posts I can see why they don't like you much tbh!

Loud chickens?
Reporting their friends to get sacked?

Surely you just knock on the door and ask them to move the truck? Absolutely unnecessary to call the office unless they refuse to move. I can see why they maybe don't like you!

Ps. I used to have chickens and they were really noisy!!

This. These responses are crazy!

60s isn't really old.

There is no evidence that they are entitled or fuckwits aside from the evidence that they complained about chickens. Our neighbours had chickens, luckily we lived in a semi rural area with long gardens. They still smelled and made a lot of noise.

The example of people parking by school is a little different though as that's a daily occurrence. Sounds like this is just a one off and hasn't happened before.

There is NO excuse for blocking someone’s drive! None. The mental gymnastics being done on this thread in order to have a bite at OP, is almost funny! A bin wagon was blocking OP’s driveway for FORTY MINUTES! Come on now……

The fact that she didn’t need to leave is totally irrelevant because she absolutely could have needed to! They didn’t know whether she did or didn’t, they just parked there regardless!
If my drive was blocked for 40 mins when I need to leave for the school run I’d be screwed as many people would and we don’t all have the guts to go knocking on the door to request they move. If it were my volatile neighbour then I’d likely be assaulted if I knocked on their door and I actually live in a nice area!

So you ask them to move nicely?

From @Bumpyroads
But really i reported it because it was blocking my drive. I was wanting to see if people would still report even if they didn't have the bad relationship with the neighbour or if it had tainted my view.

In which case you probably should have just posted an AIBU about reporting bin men for parking in front of my drive for 40mins. Then you could have got peoples opinion on what you really wanted to know - without bringing your neighbours in to it.

Interested how you play music passive aggressively?
Not really what you’d expect from 60+ year olds but if they’re still in to raving then good on them!

Right and all neighbours are reasonable are they?! As I stated above, if I knocked on my volatile neighbours’ door I’d very likely be assaulted! Some people are aggressive (yes, even at 60+) and mentally unstable. Why should anyone be put at risk because some selfish gits parked across their drive? The entitlement!

So all music is ‘raving’ is it?! What a ridiculous thing to say

You are definitely not being unreasonable OP. It is bloody rude to block someone’s driveway and extremely stupid if you work for the council. You did the right thing.

YANBU. 40 mins is excessive. They clearly made a choice to block you in rather than park outside the house of the person they were actually visiting - it wasn’t a case of them not having anywhere else to park. Would have pissed me off too.

Surprised how many people think you're BU!

Someone parked their vehicle across your driveway. You rang the owner of said vehicle about it.

If you had a relationship with anyone involved. Eg were friendly with the neighbours you might have handled it differently. But you don't, so you handled it transactionally. Perfectly reasonable.

That's lots of women's experience with angry men. Who would shout misogynistic abuse at a woman driver if she so much as impeded them for a few seconds in their angry speeding.

YABU
You didn’t need to get access to your drive at that time. And if you did it would be easy to just ask them to move.
The heat has been sweltering, emptying bins is a hard, heavy job. The operatives need a break As long as they finish their round, does it really matter when and where they take their break?
You dislike your neighbours and are simply making trouble and a drama just to be spiteful.

This - YANBU

There is a lot of judgmental ageism on this thread. So what if your neighbours are 60+? Would you have used other protected characteristics in such a derogatory manner (eg if they were disabled or by ethnicity)?

Oh for gods sake get over it I've explained why I said there age. End of. Im not ageist/sexist/racist etc etc.
I described them in a way that I saw fit to explain we have different lifestyles or live differently. Honestly its not that deep.

To be honest im suprised no one is having a go at me for saying bin man and not bin person.

Not everything is said with a bad intention.

It would be interesting to see the response if something entirely different happened? Indeed but given you keep saying if this and if that…if you came back from shopping, which you didn’t.

It’s pretty obvious who the problem neighbours are from your posts.

If I had a pound for everyone who self proclaimed I’m not ageist, sexist, racist etc…

They never are!

amazed you get through to the council, and they take action then and there. we have a portal and their office wouldn't be open when the bins come anyway. amazing