I pride myself on being a bit of a neat freak. I’m also not above bleaching and cleaning the inside of my trash can so my garage doesn’t stink like the town landfill. Having said that, you’ve got issues that have nothing to do with the state of your trash bin. Also, I’m reluctant to believe you’ve stopped reading this thread. You care far too much what strangers think of you, even when they don’t think of you at all.
Have you considered throwing your recycling into a quarry at all?
Personally I think you people are crazy. Whether the OP has issues or not, tuna fish stinks to high heaven when its fresh and it is 10x worse when it is old and moldy and rotting. FTR, I have never once cleaned out my recycling bin, but then, no one dumped tuna fish in it either.
While I do think that’s a little odd (garbage in general smells worse to me than tuna fish), that’s not really the main point here. It’s more the immediate thought that this was a “vindictive” act and then the whole eruption of emotion that followed over such a trivial matter. If this were my thread and I got those responses, I’d say “Oh, thanks for the reality check. Looks like I am thinking about this a bit too much” and, like you said, don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity/ignorance/inattention.
For future reference, the simple way to clean out a trash can is to take it to one of those coin-operated DIY car washes with the big wands that hang down from the ceiling.
How to get it there (if you don’t have a pickup truck or similar) is an exercise left for the reader.
You know, if you would have just posted about being annoyed by your neighbor throwing tuna all over in your recycling, you probably would have received mostly sympathetic comments. Your over-the-top assertions about your neighbor and what type of person she is because of this just turned that negative spotlight right onto you. It was, in all likelihood, a careless mistake. Not a catty attempt to get your goat because you are younger and in a relationship and she is an older single woman. The fact that you would go there, and over something so trivial, speaks volumes.
I think that the fact that the OP is now using the same terms to describe people on this board who do not agree with her that she used to describe her neighbor is telling. It seems like anyone who disagrees with her way of doing things is catty and childish. Also, her fixation on keeping her garbage can clean is weird.
No, you wanted opinions that agreed with you and didn’t want opinions that didn’t. That is the very definition of validation.
Do let us know how that turns out for ya.
Right? It’s really bizarre how anal people can get about stuff that’s supposed to be dirty!
Reminds me of a conversation I once had with a friend’s mother back in the day.
A bunch of us had just moved into a house (most of us from our parent’s houses) and someone had their mother over for dinner. They were out on the deck in back. I went out there with an empty beer can to throw in the recycling bin, which was next to the deck stairs. As I was walking past them, my friend’s mother asked, “Did you rinse that out?”
“Um …no? I mean, why would I?” I replied.
“If you don’t it’ll attract bees.” she said.
“Well… that’s why we keep it outside!”
In the OP’s defense on this one point only, a recycling bin isn’t for wet, dirty garbage or food waste. Our guy won’t take the bin if there’s food waste in it.
Wow, that’s turning out great! Thanks for the link!
If an OP had come here and complained that their neighbor blew up because they threw tuna into the neighbors bin every poster would be against them. They would get told how rude, thoughtless, and probably illegal their action was. People would suggest they go out and buy their neighbor a new bin. One or two would advocate the death penalty for throwing tuna in a bin.
Oh come on you know it is true, I have seen so many threads here where minor annoyances get turned into class one felonies once the peanut gallery is done with the thread. This is the board where leaving a dog outdoors is animal cruelty worthy of a police call. But when the OP poster rubs everyone the wrong way suddenly it is Bohemian hippy town where anything goes.
I really don’t think most of the people are glomming onto the tuna bit as being the odd thing about the post.
bolding mine
If the OP was just about her neighbor throwing unrinsed cans in her bin, we’d probably have been behind her, or at least not given a fuck either way. In fact the first two dozen or so responses were perfectly (mostly) constructive, even supportive.
…then the OP came back and opened up a 128-oz. can of insane all over everybody. Frankly now I want to go find her and dump all my unrinsed cans in her bin.
It’s not the tuna, grude. It’s what the tuna represents.
dunno - smells fishy to me.
Sure there are, but we expect these kinds of situations to involve murder and suicide.
So recycling is kind of a let down.
Regards,
Shodan
Might just be me, but I got not-dolphin-free-tuna vibes from the OP.