So tomorrow the garbage trucks come. I put the wheelie bins out as I have done for several years.
They are on the verge (footpath) in line with my property but abutting the neighbours property. I place them so close to the line with the neighbours property as we are very close to the bend and it is slightly safer for the garbage truck drivers to stop there rather than on the bend (there is a small traffic island so if the truck pulls up there any traffic banks up behind the truck).
All is well. I look out tonight and the bins have been moved directly into the front of my property- still on the verge so they will be collected tomorrow.
I can only assume the neighbours moved them. They only moved in last weekend (the house is now rented).
I have never met the neighbours. It just seems odd to me that they didn’t come in and say “Hey, would you mind if we moved your bins a little further on because of XXXX”. I have been home all day.
The verge belongs to the Council anyway. It is not as if it is part of the house.
At the end of the day I don’t really care where the bins are as long as they get emptied. However, I still find the whole repositioning a bit odd.
Maybe they needed to move something and they wanted to be sure they didn’t hit the bins. If it wasn’t a big deal and they didn’t want to disturb you, moving them out of the way was just easier.
Maybe Monnlitherial, but behind the bins was a power pole and their driveway is at the other end of the property so it seems unlikely that that is the answer. The power pole means a car would have difficulty accessing from our side- it would be easier from their driveway.
I could understand if the bins smelled really bad (in this heat that often happens) but that isn’t the case.
I know I should not let little things irk me but I just can’t follow this. Undoubtedly a simple explanation somewhere.
Not to hijack Cicero’s thread, but for the curious, there was no follow up to that. I still drive the neighbor’s kid home from school and have barely talked to the adults in the family since then, which is the norm. I did talk to they guy once and totally forgot to check out his hand to see if he was wearing a ring.
The only thing that is different is their two younger kids come to my house a time or two a week to hang out, when they never did this before. A couple of times, they went home around dinner time and then came back a few minutes later saying the had permission to have dinner with us (when they were never invited to do so, so I sent them back home). They are odd in a goofy pre-teen, teen kind of way or perhaps a Jehova Witness lack-of-social-skills kind of way.
Cicero, the only take away I had from the whole thing is that some people are weird about trash. I suppose your cans were just uncomfortably close to the new neighbors yard for some reason.
Perhaps they don’t want their nice, new trash cans contaminated with your trashy, low class trash-cooties or something.
