Ailz Says I'm Obsessive...
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poliphiloBut you can't mess with the bin-men.
These are powerful individuals- and if you pile things in your bin so the lid won't shut they're perfectly within their rights not to empty it.
So imagine my dismay when I looked out this morning and found that Samina- who doesn't have a clue about the rules and etiquette of waste disposal- had loaded her surplus junk into my bin- there was a lot of it because some weeks she'll miss a collection- with the result that there were two bins- hers and mine- side by side- both over flowing- and with extra grot piled up on the pavement.
I could see the binmen turning up their noses at us- refusing to shift either bin- leaving the rubbish to fester- and festering rubbish means rats.
So I did something a little desperate. I borrowed Renee's bin- she's not at home, she rarely is these days- and redistributed the surplus. Now there were three bins deployed on our stretch- all full, but with lids that would shut.
The binmen turned up shortly afterwards. I had acted just in time. A crisis in public health has been averted.
These are powerful individuals- and if you pile things in your bin so the lid won't shut they're perfectly within their rights not to empty it.
So imagine my dismay when I looked out this morning and found that Samina- who doesn't have a clue about the rules and etiquette of waste disposal- had loaded her surplus junk into my bin- there was a lot of it because some weeks she'll miss a collection- with the result that there were two bins- hers and mine- side by side- both over flowing- and with extra grot piled up on the pavement.
I could see the binmen turning up their noses at us- refusing to shift either bin- leaving the rubbish to fester- and festering rubbish means rats.
So I did something a little desperate. I borrowed Renee's bin- she's not at home, she rarely is these days- and redistributed the surplus. Now there were three bins deployed on our stretch- all full, but with lids that would shut.
The binmen turned up shortly afterwards. I had acted just in time. A crisis in public health has been averted.
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Date: 2010-06-10 08:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-10 01:23 pm (UTC)I'm starting to feel a bit twitchy because the new people at No. 2 seem to be leaving their bins out by the road all week instead of dragging them back to their house. It looks untidy, especially as they have piled too much stuff of the wrong kind into the brown wheelie bin (for garden waste). The bin men refused to take it last week, but the occupents of No. 2 haven't done anything to deal with it. :(
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Date: 2010-06-10 01:59 pm (UTC)We have a rule here that you're not allowed to have your bins out on the street except on collection day- but I don't believe it's ever enforced.