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?

You are being as silly as your neighbour. Why didn’t you ask them to move the truck? It’s all a bit pathetic.
Ignore the requests in the future and ignore their visitors too, if they park across your driveway ask them to move, like you would ask anyone else.
Unless you want to continue playing this game.
I wouldn’t be snapping photos and making calls to report on workers.

How do they know you reported it? They might have an inkling, of course, but they won’t know.

If the council show the driver the photographs evidence, they’ll easily work out where the picture was taken from.
I mean in this situation it’s usually obvious who the nosey troublemaker neighbours are on the street, the type who buy chickens in a residential area.

@ EmeraldShamrock000

Nope sorry, the dustbin men made the decision that lead to this ending the way it did, when they chose not to park in front of one of the two houses they were visiting but to block a third parties drive instead which was wholly unreasonable.

Why should the OP just need to pop round to avoid issues, why didn't they park where they were going or at least not blocking a drive, there is no excuse for that. They got what they reserved and you reap what you sow.

They should not be parked there and it's not on you to track them down and ask them to move it.

True. But the council would have to be careful about identifying complainers too. So as said, unless they anre shown the photo, the men will be fairly sure but won’t know.

Unless OP told her neighbour they grassed on her dad.

As they said, it is unreasonable having the drive blocked if they needed to get out of the drive. I would have understood the call if they needed to use the drive. But they didn’t.

They’ve pretty much said their rage is at their neighbour and their actions stemmed from that.

That is why they were unreasonable.

But I’m also old - so what do I know?

Well it's also obvious who the really inconsiderate Council employees are too.

Or make sure a lot of rubbish gets spilled on your drive!

I think YABVU to complain about them blocking your drive when you didn't even need to move your car. And I'm sure they're entitled to breaks, like any other worker.

But your pettiness won't affect your neighbours at all, just the poor buggers who empty stinking bins week in, week out in all weathers!

Our bin men also grit the roads and pavements in icy or snowy weather (or did, last time we had any, which was probably 10 years ago).

If your council has the same arrangement, I hope they leave your section of pavement icy!

I had no idea we old gimmers weren't supposed to play music.

I've been transgressing this bit of etiquette for nearly 11 years.

Maybe I should do this every time a supermarket delivery van blocks my drive while delivering to the houses across the road.

But I won't, because I'd prefer them to block my drive than the whole street for the few minutes it takes and, more importantly, because I'm not a petty cunt.

There’s a big difference between parking for a few minutes to complete a delivery and going inside a house to have a cup of tea. What they did was outstandingly rude.

Isn't it far more likely that they forgot to turn their disco lights off? Us oldies do tend to get forgetful.

Assuming that they did it on purpose makes me wonder if you are overthinking things somewhat. Not everyone is as petty as you.

And purely because the OP is pissed off with the neighbour who was kind enough to make them a drink on a scorching day...

Sorry OP Team neighbours here. They’ve lived there 3 decades then newbies first get chickens in a residential area and then effectively spitefully grass up the husband’s work colleagues for calling in. Well done 👏. You’ve likely cost the bin men their jobs. Of course they shouldn’t of been skiving (none of your business in any case, live and let live) but if it really was an issue with the lorry you could’ve asked them to move it. Not right to grass up workies, just because your neighbours rub you up the wrong way.

This. It’s just spiteful and nasty.

Wow, so you've managed to piss off the bin men and both sets of neighbours with one phone call, OP! That's olympic level shit-stirring.

I hope they're both more tolerant and mature than you and don't retaliate.

Even if you knew the bin men were in the house next door?

I'd just knock and ask them to move, it would resolve the issue far more quickly than reporting it to the council.

It’s ageist, full stop.

There is NO excuse for blocking someone’s drive!

I live in a narrow street where there is only room for cars to park on one side. Parking spaces are hard to come by, even though most houses have a drive, because so many people now have more than one vehicle.

Consequently, delivery vans etc have to choose between blocking the entire road or blocking a drive, and do you know what? No-one really gives much of a toss! More often than not, people know where the driver is delivering to or working, and if they don't, it rarely takes more than a couple of minutes to find out.

When the people across the road were having their loft conversion done, my NDN and I were perfectly happy for their tradesmen to block our drives rather than block the whole sodding street and inconvenience everyone when they had to drop off materials and heavy equipment. And the bin men have to block the entire street when they come and empty our bins, too. There's no way they'd ever find a space big enough to park a dustcart here.

Yes but there is a large stretch of straight road with no houses the other side of the street, i have parked there when we've had visitors and our visitors park there. So its not like they had no other option.

Why didn’t she use her words and ask them to move. She took the time to make a call, take photographs but couldn’t simply ask, instead she caused a lot of trouble for these men, causing upset in the neighbourhood, most people have had an unauthorised tea break.
She is an entitled spiteful person.

They were next door assuming they were in uniform, there was no tracking required. 😅

So im supposed to see through walls now too

To be fair you are noticing what everyone else in your street is doing.

We’d be forgiven for thinking you could.