Bin Men - stupid? or following process?

[brokenflipflop]

Arrived home today in the wifes car and we held up all the traffic so I could dive out of the car and move the bin (that I'd remembered to put out last night) that the bin man had left on the pavement right in the middle of the drive so we couldn't drive in.

Are bin men thick, bloody-minded or is this policy?

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Dunno...havent seen them round here for 3 weeks!!

 

[potsy]

Oh no, not again

 

[Bman]

Well done for remembering to put the bin out! :P

 

[marinyork]

Does it honestly matter that much. It is collecting the bins, it isn't a bin arranging contest for your locale where the well being of the place is threatened if you don't win 1st prize for having you bins all tidy and smelling of roses.

 

[brokenflipflop]

It matters to me and the 50 cars filing up behind me just because of a bloke who can't think. If a cyclist had come down he might have gone over my bonnet too.

 

[Glow worm]

They're pretty good around here. It's not a job I'd fancy doing. We don't have wheelie bins here so the cats and foxes rip open the bags left overnight. The bin men were picking up soiled nappies that had dropped out of one bin bag the other week -uuuurgh!
My only gripe isn't with the bin men, but the local authority who seem keen to make recyling as complicated and awkward as possible.

 

[screenman]

Maybe just maybe the binmen were in a rush, you held up 50 cars just think how many they would have held up, close enough is good enough when you are in a rush like they are.

 

[TVC]

It's like deja vu all over again.

 

[fenlandpsychocyclist]

Did you hold them up, or delay them from reaching the next holdup which they would have reached whether you held them up or not?

 

[rich p]

I refuse to be drawn into a trashy debate that we've bin to before.

 

[Paulus]

So, for the few seconds it took for you to dive out of the car and move the bin it has driven you to distraction. I feel you need to seek avertion therapy, or such like for your feelings against your bin men. They are not all stupid, some maybe, but as stated by marinyork it is not not a tidy bin competition. As for cyclists going over your bonnet, would he as stated be cycling on the pavement? Sorry for rising to the bait.

 

[jayonabike]

'' What-a-load-of-rubbish''

 

[accountantpete]

Does it wheelie matter?

 

[snorri]

I wouldn't be surprised if i heard that one of the binmen on your route is a CycleChat forumer.