Bin Men - stupid? or following process?

[brokenflipflop]

Do cyclists have a habit of doing that on your bonnet, as I'm struggling to see the link between bin being left in driveway and flying cyclists?

Where the bin had been left, middle of pavement in front of driveway, meant our vehicle was straddled partly on the road and partly on the pavement. The bin blocked our entry to our drive and if a cyclist was coming down the inside of the traffic we were blocking his route.

 

[brokenflipflop]

You couldn't make it up..... I was just leaving the house when I noticed something lying in the road, swipe me - it was a BROKEN FLIP FLOP!!! needless to say I threw it in the bin ...

You bloody idiot ! They can simply be repaired and re-used. It's a shame the more resourceful and thrifty members of your population didn't see fit to settle on our shores. Humph!

 

[400bhp]

Where the bin had been left, middle of pavement in front of driveway, meant our vehicle was straddled partly on the road and partly on the pavement. The bin blocked our entry to our drive and if a cyclist was coming down the inside of the traffic we were blocking his route.

Ho right :tenuouslinkalert:

 

[brokenflipflop]

[QUOTE 1703372, member: 45"]The bin didn't stop your car in the middle of the road.[/quote]
No it didn't...the wife stopped the car in the middle of the road.

 

[e-rider]

a first world complaint of the highest order - reality check required urgently

 

[brokenflipflop]

[QUOTE 1703384, member: 45"]Don't blame the bin then. The traffic jam you caused was avoidable regardless of the bin being where it was.[/quote]
Brummies sound a bit thick but I didn't think they were ......If the bin men had put the bin where they found it then it wouldn't have blocked the entry to our drive. My wife braked because the bin blocked her way. One third of the car was on the pavement, the other 2 thirds were sticking out into the road. My part in the saga was as a passenger who got out to put the bin back to where the bin men got it from. I assumed the bin man was a Salfordian, he may have been from Birmingham.

 

[400bhp]

So, my reading of the above is that your wife saw the bin too late and ended up 1/3 on the pavement.

Are you sure it was the binmens fault, I mean are you wheelie sure?

 

[400bhp]

[QUOTE 1703402, member: 45"]Does your wife normally aim to cross a pavement without first checking that it is clear? Thank goodness it wasn't a child.

No, both you and your wife need to work on your observation skills. If she had seen the bin when she should have she would have had several options open to her, none of which would have caused your fictitious 50-car jam.[/quote]

 

[brokenflipflop]

[QUOTE 1703402, member: 45"]Does your wife normally aim to cross a pavement without first checking that it is clear? Thank goodness it wasn't a child.

No, both you and your wife need to work on your observation skills. If she had seen the bin when she should have she would have had several options open to her, none of which would have caused your fictitious 50-car jam.[/quote]
I think I may have covered this....If I was driving I would have carried on and pulled up in front of next door's. My wife is a women which means if there is any diversion from what she would normally expect, in this case a bin, blocking entry to the driveway, then she will react like a woman - slam the anchors on, blocking the road or plough straight into the bin. If I'd had said anything, her brain short circuits and she probably would have ploughed into the bin and slammed it into the back of my Audi Q7 4.2 DTI Quattro S-Line, so I kept quiet for damage limitation reasons. Hope that's clear. (ultimately, if the bin men hadn't blocked the entry to our drive, none of this would have happened)

 

[MontyVeda]

I think I may have covered this....If I was driving I would have carried on and pulled up in front of next door's. My wife is a women which means if there is any diversion from what she would normally expect, in this case a bin, blocking entry to the driveway, then she will react like a woman - slam the anchors on, blocking the road or plough straight into the bin. If I'd had said anything, her brain short circuits and she probably would have ploughed into the bin and slammed it into the back of my Audi Q7 4.2 DTI Quattro S-Line, so I kept quiet for damage limitation reasons. Hope that's clear. (ultimately, if the bin men hadn't blocked the entry to our drive, none of this would have happened)

Niiiice!

 

[400bhp]

Yeah it is clear.

It's your wife's (the woman's) fault.

Why the need to quote the full model spec of a run of the mill Q7?

 

[Paulus]

. (ultimately, if the bin men hadn't blocked the entry to our drive, none of this would have happened)[/quote

If you didn't have a car it wouldn't of happened.

 

[brokenflipflop]

The wife blamed the bin men and I blamed the wife and bin men about 50/50 (but I didn't tell the wife that)

It pisses off the Guardian readers on here who refer to it not so fondly as a 4x4.

 

[Paladin - York]

 

[brokenflipflop]

A car is essential - the shops are about 400 metres away.