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ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I'm sure that the local recycling crew would like to thank you for allowing your bloody Hound of the Baskervilles*** to pee all over my recycling boxes. I would like to thank you too. I have to put the boxes on the pavement directly in front of my house, on a route that is used by a fair number of sometimes unruly people on their way to and from the local pubs.

I am always worried that some of the home-coming drunks will be tempted to empty the contents of the boxes onto the pavement as they pass so I don't put the boxes out until after post-pub-staggering-home time.

Collection day had been put back because of the Christmas/Boxing Day bank holidays. It should have been Friday, but was scheduled for Saturday instead. I therefore put the boxes out at 02:00 on Saturday morning, expecting them to be emptied at about 09:00 on Saturday. It didn't happen. I left the boxes out expecting them to be sorted out eventually but it didn't happen during the day. I went on the council website and saw that the collection had been put back to today (Sunday). Not wanting to leave the boxes exposed to drunken pranksters last night, I brought them back into the house, intending to put them back out again at 02:00 today.

I plonked the boxes down on my tiled kitchen floor and instantly became aware of a fetid greeny-yellow puddle oozing out of the boxes. Not only were my floor and recycling boxes dripping with stinking dog p*ss, SO WAS I! I smelt like an entire wolf pack had scent-marked me! :cursing:

I put the boxes back out immediately, notwithstanding potential drunken pranksters. I mopped the kitchen floor, stripped off and chucked my dog-pee-stinking clothes in the washing machine, scrubbed myself using a soapy nailbrush and then went to bed. 30 minutes later, I got out of bed and scrubbed myself again because I kept getting whiffs of that damn smell. In fact, I had to get up regularly until about 04:00 because the smell kept coming back.

To cap it all, the recycling boxes STILL haven't been emptied ...

Yeah, thank you, considerate dog owner - I love the smell of dog p*iss in the morning!


*** I didn't see the dog in question, but judging from the amount of liquid involved, it must have been the size of a pony!
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Before anybody suggests it ... It wasn't human urine, from those drunks. If it DID come from a human then they have a dire health problem and should get their kidneys checked out ASAP!
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Hell, you keep strange hours, Colin. :wacko:^_^ (It may have been a weekend buy I bet you put them out at 2am on a Friday morning, ordinarily). Why not put the bins out, say, at 7am?
Because I probably wouldn't have got to sleep until 03:30 - 04:30 and wouldn't want to get up again to do it! :laugh:

They sometimes start the collection just after 07:00 so that would be the latest I could do it. Getting up at (say) 08:30 could be too late.

In this case I had to contact the council to tell them they had missed us out after Christmas. The recycling vehicle finally came round before 09:00 today and picked up the recycling. Good job - every container was full to the top.
 
Can I be paid to stay at home and get better please?
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
If you must have a garden bonfire do not do it on a day with little wind blowing towards my car which is now covered in ash which could damage the paint if left and pretend you cannot see any ash. Bl—-dy holiday home owners.
 
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