Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 10:44     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
This would annoy me too, especially week after week after week. I think if the people posting here were being honest, the majority of them would be annoyed too. Once in a while--no, but every week, definitely.

I'd start by blocking the area they use with my car and if that didn't work I'd either reach out to them directly, or to whoever their landlord is and see if we can work out a solution that way.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 09:27     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
My gosh what? I have so many things that I've written but deleted all of it as to not hurt your fragile feelings.

#4 is your only option. Trying really hard to not say anything else.....it's so hard though
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 08:14     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to figure out if I just suck this up, but it's starting to get on my nerves. Two houses - our house, three car driveway. Next door to our left - two car driveway. Houses are very close together, with not much grass in between these two driveways. Garbage day, I put our garbage cans out where our third car driveway is since we only have two cars, but we could put it in front of our house, it's just easier in the driveway. Neighbor puts their garbage cans out on that tiny area between our homes, not enough room for them to be side by side at all if they were just in front of "their" side. I don't care at all about their cans being in front of "our" yard, but what happens, 99.9% of the time, is the automated truck comes and dumps at least one can in front of our driveway. So I come outside to three or four large garbage cans in my driveway.

We don't know these people (have just the wave hello style of neighbor interaction, nothing hostile at all), it's a revolving door rental, pretty much new family every year to year and a half, and as far as I can tell/hear, they don't speak much English. Every family who lives there speaks Portuguese, as the owners live in Brazil and only rent to Brazilians (I mention that only because any conversation might lose nuance and I don't want to come off as a prick when I really just want to stop having to pick up their garbage cans and move them over so we can get out/get in our driveway). What's the best course of action:

1. Suck it up and wait for them to inevitably move out?
2. Say, "not sure if you're aware but the trucks dump your cans in our driveway every single week, can you move them to the other side of your driveway?" Is there any way to say this without sounding like an a-hole?
3. Do nothing and wait for them to notice that their cans are in our driveway? Every week? So that they finally see for themselves?
4. Move on with life and never think about this again?

I have no reason to think they're mean, rude, anything, they just keep to themselves. We did help them during a hurricane last year (we live in Florida) but that was it for interaction.


Maybe I miss reading your post, but this doesn’t seem like a neighbor issue but more like a garbage company issue. They pick up all of your cans together and just put them back in one spot. My neighbor and I don’t live as close as you, but when our garbage gets picked up, the cans all get put back in one general spot. It’s not a big deal, take a deep breath and move on.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 08:08     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
I would just tell the neighbors. Who cares if they get mad - they are going to move out soon anyway.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 06:44     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
This is a trash truck issue. I live in even tighter quarters on a narrow street where when I come home and the cans are blocking the driveway there’s no good place for me to pull in to move them so I can turn into my one-car driveway. I have to stop right there and hope no one comes barreling around the corner and hits my car. It doesn’t matter where I put the cans - halfway down the lawn area or right next to my driveway, one or both cans is blocking the driveway when I come home. (We have two separate trucks that come). It’s just something I have to suck up. During the school year my son gets home before me and his job is to move them out of the way, and I also will move my neighbor’s out of their driveway (they’re kind of connected) just because I’m there.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 06:40     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
So we all put our trash cans in front of our driveways, we have a pipe stem right next to us with 2 houses on it. So they share a long driveway right next to us. Inevitably the trash truck comes, makes one stop, then leaves all the cans together either in their driveway or mine.
It is what it is, I would let it go OP.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 06:37     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
Anonymous wrote:Umm it would take like 10 seconds to just move the bins over to where they originally were to be picked up, right? This seems like such a silly thing to get bothered about.


It’s annoying to have to get out of your car and move the garbage cans to pull into your driveway. I changed where we put our own because of this. But I would roll them in front of their driveway so they realize the placement is an issue and not say anything.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 04:29     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to figure out if I just suck this up, but it's starting to get on my nerves. Two houses - our house, three car driveway. Next door to our left - two car driveway. Houses are very close together, with not much grass in between these two driveways. Garbage day, I put our garbage cans out where our third car driveway is since we only have two cars, but we could put it in front of our house, it's just easier in the driveway. Neighbor puts their garbage cans out on that tiny area between our homes, not enough room for them to be side by side at all if they were just in front of "their" side. I don't care at all about their cans being in front of "our" yard, but what happens, 99.9% of the time, is the automated truck comes and dumps at least one can in front of our driveway. So I come outside to three or four large garbage cans in my driveway.

We don't know these people (have just the wave hello style of neighbor interaction, nothing hostile at all), it's a revolving door rental, pretty much new family every year to year and a half, and as far as I can tell/hear, they don't speak much English. Every family who lives there speaks Portuguese, as the owners live in Brazil and only rent to Brazilians (I mention that only because any conversation might lose nuance and I don't want to come off as a prick when I really just want to stop having to pick up their garbage cans and move them over so we can get out/get in our driveway). What's the best course of action:

1. Suck it up and wait for them to inevitably move out?
2. Say, "not sure if you're aware but the trucks dump your cans in our driveway every single week, can you move them to the other side of your driveway?" Is there any way to say this without sounding like an a-hole?
3. Do nothing and wait for them to notice that their cans are in our driveway? Every week? So that they finally see for themselves?
4. Move on with life and never think about this again?

I have no reason to think they're mean, rude, anything, they just keep to themselves. We did help them during a hurricane last year (we live in Florida) but that was it for interaction.


It sounds like your garbage bins are placed near your 3rd driveway which isn’t occupied and theirs are nearby. So then all bins get placed in the 3rd driveway?

I think it would be petty to say something just because it’s annoying that their bins end up in your driveway. I wouldn’t pick them up though, to give them a chance to see what’s happening.
You can still get in and out of your other 2 driveways correct?

Personally I would place bins in front of my house so there’s no chance they end up in driveway and hope neighbors follow suit.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 00:38     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Elevate your humanity and simply move the bins out of the way. You will feel good about yourself and it will be reflected elsewhere in your life


OP here. Yes, I have. I just wanted a gut check if others would find this annoying and if it seemed worth it to say anything. Doesn't seem to be the case.


Overcoming annoyance gives you character. It is a great asset.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 00:18     Subject: Re:Neighbor post - reality check please
I would personally do 2.
Anonymous
Post 08/23/2023 22:41     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know this sounds stupid. But these cans are heavy and they're knocked over onto their side, and it's annoying. And no, I don't get annoyed at everything. But I am annoyed at this! Was just wondering if other people would be too. But I'll let it go most likely!


So have you been moving them or do the neighbors?


I move them back to get them out of our driveway so we can park in it when we come home. They're often blocking our driveway, at least on one side. I get home first, so I get out of the car, move their cans, and then park in our garage.


Okay, OP - do you see the flaw in your logic that leads to your annoyance?

The neighbors put the cans out every week, and every week when they get home - after you - the cans are right where they put them out. They don’t even know that anything is amiss, they think the spot they put the cans is working out just fine.

Nobody is taking advantage of you, it’s a ‘poo happens’ kind of thing. Personally I would use this situation as a means to stretch yourself - either to let go of annoyance, or to meet the neighbors and learn to converse with them.


What I meant, is I get home first in my house. And yes, I do see that, which is why I said in my OP that one tactic was "I'm not sure you're aware but..." because I really don't know when they're home, if they're home during the day, etc. I get this. And I was asking if there was any way for me to even have this conversation without coming across like many of you are seeing me as, so I think I see the answer. I don't think as many people responding would be so generous and act like it's no big deal to do this every week, but fine enough. I *am* doing every week, so it's all good I guess.


I was going to ask if you are having to move yours, as well. Now I get it - yours are on a different part of your yard, and they are not in your driveway after pick-up. I would absolutely be annoyed and so would every other poster on here. It would be one thing if you also had to move yours to get in the driveway, but you don't. I also get that they probably don't realize it's a problem, so as some people have suggested, you could leave your car in front of your house so they can see the problem. That would also be inconvenient for you, so I don't know that it's really a better solution. If I were the neighbor, I would definitely want to know if someone had to move my trashcans every time trash picked up and would want my neighbor to tell me!
Anonymous
Post 08/23/2023 20:57     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know this sounds stupid. But these cans are heavy and they're knocked over onto their side, and it's annoying. And no, I don't get annoyed at everything. But I am annoyed at this! Was just wondering if other people would be too. But I'll let it go most likely!


So have you been moving them or do the neighbors?


I move them back to get them out of our driveway so we can park in it when we come home. They're often blocking our driveway, at least on one side. I get home first, so I get out of the car, move their cans, and then park in our garage.


It annoys the crap out of me how unaware most of my neighbors are about how the trash truck works and how consequently said neighbors are constantly putting things out in ways that disrupt the service. I have to keep telling myself, the trash truck comes at 9:30am on a weekday, 95% of the people who live on this street have never been home when they come, so yes, they simply don't know what they don't know.

Your neighbors don't have crystal balls, if you're moving the cans back before they see them, they think what they are doing works. If you don't want to talk to them, you'll have to stop moving the cans and see if they notice and change their ways.
Anonymous
Post 08/23/2023 19:38     Subject: Neighbor post - reality check please
This would annoy me too. I wouldn't want to have to park, get out to move their cans, get back in my car with dirty hands, and pull into my driveway. I would nicely ask them to put their cans out in front of their tree line. It's an easy solution for everyone.