I *refuse* to believe anyone is this stupid
Like many people I've had to endure the frustration that when you go on holiday you face the bin bag dilemma.

If you put it out 5 days early the council complain or fine you for doing so. Yet if you fail to put it out you come home to 2 week old festering bin bags that smell like death. As for some reason the bin men are too lazy to check the council built bin cupboard next to my front door and insist I move the bin bag the 20ft to the edge of the pavement.

So I decided to sort it out and removed the bin bags before my holiday and took them to the tip.

Lovely, job done I thought.

So you can imagine my upset when I come home from holiday and find several cards through the letter box from the postman telling me that the various parcels and post he's tried to deliver that wouldn't go through the letterbox have been safely left in the bin cupboard....

... except their not there.

Turns out the bin men in their infinite stupidity took it upon themselves to treat the unopened post that wasn't even in a bin bag as rubbish and chucked it all away. Including all the photographs I'd just had developed. Of course they return the negatives with the prints so I lost 6 films worth of photos.

I called the council to complain etc and they "investigated" it. The outcome "I've spoken to the refuse team for your area and they do not recall the incident. None the less they are not instructed to collect bin bags from the cupboards so it cannot have been them.".

Funny then that a week later when I didn't put the bin out they checked the cupboard again and I had to stop the guy throwing out the spare wheel for my car that I'd stored in there for a few days.

Honestly, total twunts.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Mon 30 Jul 2007, 10:40, Reply)