Bin the Bin Men
An early blog today, for yet again I was held up on the way to work by the epitome of selfishness.... the bin man.
These idiots will park their huge trucks deliberately blocking the road, especially if they can see cars behind them. So many times now I've been stuck behind one that has parked in a completely inconsiderate manor when if they had parked a few feet further forward or further to the side the traffic would be able to flow freely.
This morning I had to swerve around one that had parked in the middle of the road, and then try and get past a recycling truck that had turned a corner, but rather than completely turning it and stopping at the side of the road like you might expect, it had sort of half turned it, forcing me to turn into the road on the wrong side and then put two wheels up on the grass verge to get past.
It's not like you can do anything about it either. For a start, they are in a big truck and could easily drive into you and claim it wasn't intentional. And if you give them any abuse, you'll probably get beaten up. Let's face it, bin men aren't exactly going to be the epitome of intelligence and civility.
Why-oh-why do they have to do this job between 6 and 9 in the morning? During rush hour and the school run? If they did it mid-morning then they a) wouldn't wake us up; b) we wouldn't have to rush out in our dressing gowns because we forgot to put the bins out last night; and c) we wouldn't all get held up on the way to work.
But it'll never happen, because that would be far to convenient for the rest of us. Lest you forget, it is the credo of local councils across the land to take our money and be as useless as possible.
These idiots will park their huge trucks deliberately blocking the road, especially if they can see cars behind them. So many times now I've been stuck behind one that has parked in a completely inconsiderate manor when if they had parked a few feet further forward or further to the side the traffic would be able to flow freely.
This morning I had to swerve around one that had parked in the middle of the road, and then try and get past a recycling truck that had turned a corner, but rather than completely turning it and stopping at the side of the road like you might expect, it had sort of half turned it, forcing me to turn into the road on the wrong side and then put two wheels up on the grass verge to get past.
It's not like you can do anything about it either. For a start, they are in a big truck and could easily drive into you and claim it wasn't intentional. And if you give them any abuse, you'll probably get beaten up. Let's face it, bin men aren't exactly going to be the epitome of intelligence and civility.
Why-oh-why do they have to do this job between 6 and 9 in the morning? During rush hour and the school run? If they did it mid-morning then they a) wouldn't wake us up; b) we wouldn't have to rush out in our dressing gowns because we forgot to put the bins out last night; and c) we wouldn't all get held up on the way to work.
But it'll never happen, because that would be far to convenient for the rest of us. Lest you forget, it is the credo of local councils across the land to take our money and be as useless as possible.
posted by Nej at
9:35 am
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