I'd like to ask you all whether or not you think that we are being petty here.
The house next door to us has been empty for a while now. The last person to use it was a Chinese doctor who used to house illegal immigrants which looked after his little Cannabis factory. After the police raid, the house went back to being empty and on the market for lodgers.
So a few weeks back we had Russians move in.
Now annoyingly they seem to have Barbecues every night, and they put on so much lighter fluid that the whole area stinks. They dont seem to want to integrate either and have loud conversations in Russian with large groups of people.
Every week, the bins get emptied. We have a scheme in our city where green bins are used for recyclable rubbish. After having our bin stolen once or twice in the past, we painted huge numbers on the side to identify which house it belongs to.
We noticed that the Russians have a old, battered green bin and the other day we both put our bins out. After the rubbish had been collected, we went out to get our bin, and the only one left was the Russian battered up old bin. So we obviously wondered, 'where is our bin'.
Well, the Russians have taken it, and left us with the old one. So the old one is still out on the street, and since yesterday has been involved in a tug of war between our house and the Russian house. He keeps putting it behind our car and we keep putting it behind his car.
I know this sounds really petty, and no words have been exchanged, it is only a bin, but why the hell should we put up with that?
Comments welcome.