Upset my neighbour yesterday, was I wrong?
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Orange block is my drive. Yellow block is his drive. Green block is public highway (cul de sac).
Bin day.
I was having some professional house photos done in the morning so I moved my bins from the blue dots to the orange dots (ie public highway).
Was going to be temporary but photographer was trying to catch the sun when it was out, so the bins were in the highway for an hour or so while we went in and out to do internal photos.
Came back outside after an hour (sun arrived) and my bins had been put back on my drive.
My neighbour, we will call him Cyril, (92 years old), immediately came up to me, very in my face, said "I'm not happy, had to move your bins out of my driveway, you blocked me in".
Eh? I brushed him off relatively brusquely if I'm honest, he is a bit of a whinger at the best of times, but I thought he was being unreasonable.
I believe that his complaint can only be that the temporary bin position, on the corner, made him swing his "small" car out another two feet to get round them. I don't believe the bins were in line with his drive.
Was I in the wrong?
Bin day.
I was having some professional house photos done in the morning so I moved my bins from the blue dots to the orange dots (ie public highway).
Was going to be temporary but photographer was trying to catch the sun when it was out, so the bins were in the highway for an hour or so while we went in and out to do internal photos.
Came back outside after an hour (sun arrived) and my bins had been put back on my drive.
My neighbour, we will call him Cyril, (92 years old), immediately came up to me, very in my face, said "I'm not happy, had to move your bins out of my driveway, you blocked me in".
Eh? I brushed him off relatively brusquely if I'm honest, he is a bit of a whinger at the best of times, but I thought he was being unreasonable.
I believe that his complaint can only be that the temporary bin position, on the corner, made him swing his "small" car out another two feet to get round them. I don't believe the bins were in line with his drive.
Was I in the wrong?
Bluevanman said:
usn90 said:
A possibility could be the bin men had been and then dumped them across his driveway thinking they were his.
Were they empty when your neighbour returned them?
Good point, you think like Sherlock HolmesWere they empty when your neighbour returned them?
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