The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Just the opposite here.  Anything close to the house stays there.  There are bikes, scooters, sledges and lots of other paraphernalia left close to the doorways and no-one touches them.  It is quite surprising really.

If you want it taken you have to put a note on it for people to help themselves.  Have seen some nice furniture, mirrors and suchlike left with a sign for it to be taken by anyone.

Yup, round here - Help yourself, take me, I'm free - or even a photo of John Inman 😀

[Markeh]

My last washing machine was gone so quickly off the pavement, I'm sure it had actually gone before we'd plumbed the new one in.

[Pieman]

41 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Yup, round here - Help yourself, take me, I'm free - or even a photo of John Inman 😀

I noticed that near a friend's place in Oxford last weekend - about three or four houses had cardboard boxes outside filled with various bits and bobs and a "Free - please take" sign.  I think if you tried that in my area all you'd get is people posting on the local Facebook group somehow convinced that something untrustworthy was going on.  (I'm waiting for someone to complain on there about me snapping photo spots of unusual cars while out for a walk!)

[Wibble]

18 minutes ago, Pieman said:

I noticed that near a friend's place in Oxford last weekend - about three or four houses had cardboard boxes outside filled with various bits and bobs and a "Free - please take" sign.  I think if you tried that in my area all you'd get is people posting on the local Facebook group somehow convinced that something untrustworthy was going on.  (I'm waiting for someone to complain on there about me snapping photo spots of unusual cars while out for a walk!)

I’ll put it outside and see what happens . Wife was worried about getting done for fly tipping but we’ve had plenty of stuff leant against our wall by others which was taken or I ended up taking to the tip. Pisses me off and another reason for cctv to find out who’s doing it.

[Zelandeth]

17 minutes ago, Pieman said:

I noticed that near a friend's place in Oxford last weekend - about three or four houses had cardboard boxes outside filled with various bits and bobs and a "Free - please take" sign.  I think if you tried that in my area all you'd get is people posting on the local Facebook group somehow convinced that something untrustworthy was going on.  (I'm waiting for someone to complain on there about me snapping photo spots of unusual cars while out for a walk!)

I had to warn the landscapers working here not to leave any tools sitting around if they were going away for any time or overnight.  They didn't believe me until two spades vanished when they were away picking up some supplies.

As for anything being construed as suspicious - Yep, I've had parents near enough getting violent for "taking photos of their kids" when I was just documenting work I was doing on the cars on my drive and they happened to be walking past.  Most recently when I was half way through fitting one of the cylinder heads to the Rover - yeah, like it wasn't obvious I was in the middle of something and totally oblivious to someone walking past 50' away.  They were less than impressed when I pointed out that they were already on CCTV anyway both covering my driveway and from our neighbours across the street even if I wasn't working on the car, and they were welcome to a copy of the footage of them passing by and harassing me, to take to the police.  That seemed to shut them up.

I cannot bloody wait to be out of here.  Nearest neighbour 5-10 miles away sounds *perfect.*

[sheffcortinacentre]

But these morons will happily post their life all over the net.