Bloody bloody binmen

Or refuse engineers or whatever they are referred to nowadays.  Petty jobsworths is what I call my binmen.
We got these new wheelie bins a few years ago and when they were delivered they had stickers on them saying that where the bin was now was the Designated Collection Point for the future.  Okay fine, well that just happened to be a foot off where I kept my old one.  My back yard is open, as in the wall was removed ages ago so the yard could be off road parking. The path that seperates my yard and the back road is 2 foot wide. All my neighbours have had to wheel their bins down yards, through gates and round walls to get to the hallowed Designated Collection Point.  I had to nudge my bin 12 inches to get it Kerbside, otherwise known as the Designated Collection Point. I bet you can see where this is going can’t you?

Well it goes without saying that going outside in the freezing cold the night before collection to nudge my wheelie bin 12 inches to Kerbside is a pain in the arse. The bin is in full view of the  road to even the most myopically challenged Refuse Engineer and within 3 foot of my neighbours bin on one side.  Most of the time the bin was emptied anyway.  Occasionally it wouldn’t be for some petty reason which was never a problem to be honest  as I don’t produce much household rubbish.

But today! Well! Last week they didn’t empty my bin, and this morning they ignored it again! It’s a wheelie bin, so full of rubbish that the lid can’t be closed shut, but for sme reason, some arsy binman ignored it because it is 12 inches away from Kerbside.

So out came the Yellow Pages, 6 digits were punched into my phone and with foot tapping I asked why my bin was ignored for two weeks running. I knew why of course but I wanted some council official to actually say that my bin was not emptied because of 12 inches of asphalt.

‘So what happens now? My bin is overflowing all because I didn’t nudge it forward 12 inches!?‘

‘Well that is your fault because you didn’t leave the bin at the Designated Collection Point, which is Kerbside.  I could put a complaint forward for you, but you will have to take additional rubbish to the household tip yourself‘.

Yeah right!

‘Yes you can put a complaint in because refusing to collect a bin for 2 weeks running all for the sake of approx 12 inches is ridiculous and petty’.

Ten minutes ago a jobsworth collected my bin, wheeled it 200 yards down the road to another bin wagon, emptied it and had to wheel it all the way back again complete with a sticky red label saying that in future the bin had to be at Kerbside. I went out and wheeled it backwards …12 inches… to it’s home.

All for the sake of 12 inches.

LMAO.