This morning I'm on my way to work. I have to stop because the bin lorry has stopped slap bang in the middle of the road, with a parked car next to it so that no-one can get through. He then waves me on, expecting me to get my car through a gap big enough for a motorbike. When I don't move it finally dawns on him that there's no way I can get through so he moves forward to where he could have quite easily stopped in the first place. I still can't get through now because there's a car coming the other way, but as I'm patiently waiting, one of the binmen leaps into the road towing two bins, dives across in front of the oncoming car (brakes slamming on) and unloads his bins. Finally, I can get past.

Why do they insist on parking in the middle of the road or blocking it all the time? He only had to move forward a few metres and everything would have been fine. And do they want to get themselves killed?

I mean it wasn't a major inconvience and I appreciate they have a thankless job to do, but why do these guys never consider other people trying to use the roads? Nearer work the same situation happens on a regular basis, where the bin lorry goes up the road on one side, and the recycling lorry goes down the road on the other. And they always end up stopping opposite each other so the road is completely blocked. I swear they do it just for a laugh.

i think you are rite about them doing it coz they can.wish they would pick up the bits that get dropped as wel

Ours keep on varying what time of the day they come round. It normally is around midday so my partner can put out the bins and the recycling box when he gets up in the morning and all is fine, but now they sometimes arrive really really early and wake you up! Then in a half awake state you realise that you've missed them!

Also we have wheely bins here and we are not allowed to overfill them, if the lid is not completely shut, they wont take it. And we are supposed to have a green bag collection but we put several green bags full of garden waste out and because they weren't the proper council bags, they wouldn't take them so we ended up putting them into our wheely bin (one each week for what seemed forever) and then they did take them - whats the point in us seperating out the rubbish if they wont take it???

i saw on telly last nite that they have that prob in liverpool
they dont turn up to take the rubbish when they are suppose to and then complain that no one is using their recylin bin

our bin men are going on strike next week

they want equal pay for both sexes but instead of the council upping the ladies pay they are lowing the blokes! or summit like that,

doesnt bother me to much as selfish as i am, the strikes dont fall on my collection day

having the advantage of working for dinosaurs in the council i do hear rumblings from other departments including the bin men...
quite frankly because its a unsociable disgusting job where your looked on as SC*M, he people doing it are either jobs-worth idiots, mentally challenged or to young to know what courtesy is.... ok I??™m generalising but i live up a nice two lane road which is easily big enough for bin men to park on one side and allow other cars past on the other side. NO this doesn??™t happen they park as everyone else has realised in the middle of the f*cking road and believe me I have complained internally in the council which you would have thought they would take notice of but no nothing happened
its so f*cking simple
AAAAAHHHHHHH

did you see that bloke that had to pay 200 quid out and now he has a crim record because his wheelie bin lid did not close and his rubbish was 4 inches out of the bin!

that is total madness!!

its not like he had rubbish alll over the road

i am all for equal pay and stuff but come on! thats taking the PP and you can see why they get stereo typed as being unfriendly and awkward people

I've had the same road blocking problem with dustbin lorries myself. Blocking the road, prancing in front of my car, stopping smack-bang alongside me just when I get in and am about to set off for work. Prats.

Thankfully, when I'm on early shift, I'm usually gone before they turn up, but I know what people mean. And sometimes, unless the bin bags are placed against the front wall, the lazy b***ards don't bother taking them. Like its too much trouble to walk an extra few feet, and through an open gate to get them.

And yes. They have about as much road sense as hedgehogs.

Fraught

haqhahaha 2 tru mate

Thanks Minnie, glad you liked that. Try this one;

Q. Why did the binman cross the road?

A. To see his flat mate

Or this one:

A team of binmen were out on patrol one morning, and had to call at a restaurant which had just had a very busy night. They reversed their wagon to the rear of the restaurant, climbed out, and looked around them at the dozens and dozens of bags awaiting their collection.

Rubbing his chin, the team leader shrugged his shoulders and said to his small crew; "okay lads, I think we've got to look for a black bag."

Ha Ha, its the way you tell them that counts!