Rubbish Neighbours

Is it unfair to ask your neighbour to make sure the binmen take their rubbish bags? I mean, it's just commonsense right? I was walking to my boyfriends earlier with a pile of his washing (his machine is broken so i offered to do some loads), and another neighbour who clearly wasn't a student stopped me and asked if it was my house who owned said rubbish bags, before I had a chance to say it wasn't, she started talking about rats that had been spotted in the area and that it was beginning to get a bit smelly. When i agreed that it was getting smelly, she clocked on to it not being our rubbish. But anyway, I humored her and carried on about it being unpleasant, and then somehow got roped in to offering to knock on their door and tell them to sort their lives out - obviously not in those words. 


So I did, I knocked on the door and patiently waited, and the girl that answered, I had clearly just woken her up and when I explained that the neighbours had asked me to sort it, and that if my landlord comes over and see's the rubbish bags, they may assume it is ours and charge us. I was polite, and didn't say 'sort your life out', I reminded her that it was rubbish collection tomorrow and that could she just make sure she takes the bags down with her bin. I have never seen somebody give me such a dirty look at such a close distance. She told me that she has been away for a couple weeks, like that is an excuse considering half of the bags have been there since February, and even so, It's not my rubbish, and I've had neighbours speak to me! If anything, I should have been giving her the dirty look for being so clueless with the rubbish. If she doesn't move them down tonight, or tomorrow morning, I'm going to be forced to go back and tell her she move them, or maybe I'll just write an irritated note;


'Dear no 6.
I asked you politely if you could move your smelly rubbish bags from the front of our houses, I didn't tell you what to do, I just suggested, and the fact that I had to come and ask you, you should have just done it and if you didn't like it, just bitch about me to your house-mates, not be even more oblivious to life then you were in the first place! You've now missed the collection for another week, so if they are not gone by tonight, I will train that fat cat that lives in the area to sit outside you're house and wait for you to leave and follow you down the hill with those guilt-provoking eyes that make you feel like you have just rejected him from life. If that fails, i'll tell my mum.
Happy Easter.'




That'll do it.
I'll show them. If not, I'm moving to Australia where everyone has good neighbours, who are there for everyone!






Something to think about... Do fish have ears...