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A bizarre question about neighbours and rubbish collection
Every Sunday night, the residents of this street put the rubbish bins out for collection the next morning. We have to be careful about the bins' placement and other factors because the garbos get very picky about these things -- they do hold all the power. =P
As part of these preparations, we make sure that none of our cars are parked in front of our house on that night. However, our next-door neighbours don't seem to be so thoughtful, seeing as their cars often verge onto our 'curb space', if you will -- of course, if a car is parked too close to the bin resting on our curb, then the garbos' trucks can't get close enough.
Now, these neighbours moved in half a year ago. We've politely asked them to please move their cars the night before, and they'll politely acquiesce, before forgetting again the next week. And so on. We eventually gave up, as they just never seem to 'remember'. I'm beginning to wonder if the whole family's particularly obtuse or being deliberately provocative. We've stopped reminding them long since anyway because they've started locking their gate.
Is there some way to assist this family with the chronically-deficient attention span, without reducing myself to prank-calling them out of spite?
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You could put out orange rubber cones on your property to verify the boundary in a non-confrontational way the night before collection. If they ask, just tell them it is a reminder for cars not to block the way for the garbage trucks, because the trucks are having trouble lately getting close enough. Hope it works!
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EDIT*// Sorry, it stand for *Home Owners Assosiation*
Wow, what bad neighbors.
Well, I'm not quite sure about your neighborhood but where I like, we can get the HOA involved. They'll be able to send your neighbors a notice that first warns them to keep their cars out of the way. If they don't comply, they'll receive a second notice with a small fine. Usually, once people are asked to do something, they'll more likely go along with it if they have to fork up money.
Then being in the way of the bins is causing your trash not to be picked up which then in turn makes the neighborhood look bad. The HOA wouldn't want that.
Anyway, good luck, I hope that what I suggested is something that will work for you.
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