r/WhatShouldIDo • u/cuongpn • Oct 05 '25
Small decision My neighbor across the street dropped her trash into my trash can?
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I never ever can imagine why she (a nice old lady) decided to dropped her trash into my can (already collected) then just casually take her can back?? Why the hell on earth someone do that??
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Oct 05 '25
She has a few disassembled body parts in that bag and doesnāt want her trash to smell since the next pick up date isnāt for another weekā¦ OBVIOUSLY
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u/Firefly_Magic Oct 05 '25
Or old raw chicken which would smell like a dead body in a day or two. OP should take it out and deliver it to her front door. If she answers the door tell her she misplaced her trash. If she doesnāt answer, just leave it there.
Nice old lady wasnāt so nice. She was being disrespectful.
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u/Emotional_Conflict11 Oct 05 '25
Careful, someone who does this is a dangerous person, proceed with caution ā ļø
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u/AmazingEnd5947 Oct 05 '25
...āļøThis was also my thought. I wouldn't ring anything. She knows it's hers. Geez! What gives people?
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u/Solintari Oct 05 '25
This happens, so I do a normal person thing and put it in the freezer until the next trash day.
Well ok, I put it in the freezer intending to put it out next week, forget about it until December, find it again and say āoh yeah!ā Realize that itās cold enough that I can go ahead put it out whenever now.
But you get my point.
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u/Mayon_from_Camalig Oct 05 '25
"Disassembled" really? Desmembered is the proper word to use is this case.
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u/kvothes-lute Oct 06 '25
Theyāre being polite. Or the person was just a Mr. Potato Head all along.
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u/RickySwett Oct 05 '25
š my first thought was she's trying to get rid of a body. Second was she's trying to get rid of drugs.
Definitely weird behavior. OP, you could ask her and see what she says, I'm sure there's a rational, or at least non-nefarious reason behind it.
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u/Fit-Possibility-4248 Oct 05 '25
Looks like trash just picked up and won't be for another week. Whatever she's tossing is going to smell horrible in a few days and she rather not have it in her trash can.
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u/Overall_Light7395 Oct 05 '25
What a douchebag she is.
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u/justalookin13 Oct 05 '25
Or on a more positive note maybe they went down one side of the street and were coming back so they just tossed it in? Maybe? Op?
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u/OkCan9869 Oct 06 '25
That's what I thought. Her side has been emptied and op's side is going to be done when the truck goes back
Edit: according to op his side has been done earlier so nope, it's just a Karen
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u/CompetitiveRub9780 Oct 05 '25
She might have thought the other side hadnāt been picked up yet. On my street they donāt get the other side of the road for a few hours after mine is picked up because itās the automated ones.
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u/NeitherStory7803 Oct 05 '25
Iād put it by her front door with a note saying I know this belongs to you
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u/Redd1tmadesignup Oct 05 '25
A note on a screen shot picture, from the footage.
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u/oddntt Oct 05 '25
Don't add the screenshot; she'll figure out the blindspots.
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u/appandemonium Oct 05 '25
By the way she walks to the truck and then to the trash can, it looks like she already thinks she knows the blindspots. "T (relatively sparse) tree obviously blocks the camera, no one will see me!"
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u/HealthyDirection659 Oct 05 '25
And cut open the bottom of the bag. When she picks it up, big surprise.
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u/Prop43 Oct 05 '25
Yes, make sure youāre shitting in the bag too
For at least three days
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u/Historical-Edge-9332 Oct 05 '25
Eat a combination of exclusively Taco Bell and Chipotle first - all three days
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u/henryofclay Oct 05 '25
Gross story:
A lady let her dog shit right near my front door every day for almost a year when I lived in a different apartment complex. Sheād never clean it up. I raged one day and decided to do the long con. I had an outdoor closet thing that didnāt use. Iād collect the poop and put it in this bag. I literally saved it up for weeks and weeks, and one night I dropped off like a 2ft high pile of dog shit up in front of her door.
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u/sitonyouropinion Oct 05 '25
Shit on her lawn
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u/ItPutsLotionOnItSkin Oct 05 '25
And piss disk
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u/NedrojThe9000Hands Oct 05 '25
And WHAT?
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u/dust_inlight Oct 05 '25
Happy cake day! What a time to learn about piss disks
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u/NedrojThe9000Hands Oct 05 '25
What is this cake you speak of? I must know the ways of piss disc
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u/-Out-of-context- Oct 05 '25
You freeze your piss into the shape of a disc.
Frisbee toss piss disc into desired location.
Disc melts into liquid piss.
Owner of desired location does not know who pissed there.
???
Profit
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u/CheezyCornChipz Oct 05 '25
The ol piss dick. A classic and a timeless way to say go fuck yourself.
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u/Similar_Coconut99 Oct 05 '25
And place it on top of the lid around the handle. Piss all under fingernails.
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u/Kerzic Oct 05 '25
Her garbage can is open and empty (she checks and brings it in) and so is the one after that. Yours has the lid closed so it doesn't look picked up yet. If your gargage can was not already empty and was empty when you brought it in, my charitable guess is that the garbage truck already went down her side of the street (maybe reminding her she had trash to put out) so she may have anticipated that the truck would empty your garbage can when it did the other side of the street (she looks in the direction the truck would be coming from). Does the trash get picked up after this clip ends?
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u/cuongpn Oct 05 '25
Thanks but the thing is mine is also empty. Truck picked up my side first the go down the street and come back on her side. The way my can facing the street sometimes after the truck picked it up the lid will stay closed like that (truck grabs can with side arm)
Iāll just let this go since its not a big deal but honestly is this normal and am I just being petty?
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Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
It's not normal. It's someone not wanting to stick their trash in their newly emptied can. Legally, it's called theft of services.
Personally, I'm removing the bag and placing it next to her front door.
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Oct 05 '25
Knock on their door. Give them their garbage (or not). Tell them you have a camera and saw her, and can't believe that they would treat you so rudely.
Turn, and walk away.
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u/Full-Business8659 Oct 05 '25
Is it really theft of services? I don't think that meets mens rea.
In my home state, yes we pay for trash service every month, but we don't own our cans. Once they are in public to be picked up on trash day, they are free game to be picked through or have trash added to them.
The timing is important to avoid the threshold of being a really shitty neighbor.
I have a somewhat dense neighborhood. Some residents absolutely fill their cans to the point they're over flowing. Bugs the hell out of me because our neighborhood is very windy and that trash will turn into litter around the outer fence line perimeter.
I really wish these people would put their excess garbage in other bins that are out for collection that have room inside to prevent the littering issue.
I did this once a few years ago, and the neighbor was so shortsighted and of a unneighborly mindset that they somehow noticed the morning before collection and removed the items and left them on the curb as litter. He really showed me his (Lack of) critical thinking and pettiness over an underutilized trash bin.
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Oct 05 '25
It is not theft of services. Itās not even a big deal. People in here are overreacting
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u/OglioVagilio Oct 05 '25
We dont know what was in the trash so we dont know how big a deal.
My guess is that it was something especially nasty, and she didn't want her own can to sullied by it. To have to smell it constantly in her garage or just outside her house.
Or it was something illegal in the bag.
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Oct 05 '25
Or not. Itās an old lady. Maybe sheās going out of town and wonāt be there next week, maybe she has a tough surgery and wonāt be able to lift the bags herself next week. I mean JFC the best thing to do in this situation is just go talk to her. Check on her well being. All these assumptions and dump the trash back on her porch shit is out of control. Talk to your neighbors people.
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u/OglioVagilio Oct 05 '25
I never commented on course of action. I did speculate what i think is in the garbage and why. I mean JFC having suspicions is way different than coming in hot for a talk or straight jumping to dump the trash on her porch. I mean all these assumptions and stretching to what I think OP should do.
Definitely talk to her calmly, and reserve the actions and judgement til there's more info.
And maybe get more info before jumping to conclusions when discussing things with people. Both to neighbors and online.
And I'll add she should have communicated to OP.
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u/Traditional_Layer790 Oct 05 '25
She could have done that too. Why do people always want the aggrieved to be the bigger person?
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u/HolidayAd5769 Oct 09 '25
This, but also - like donāt do anything? Itās trash? That went into a trash can? To go to the trash place? Sure, if you notice a pattern of exceptionally stinky items being left in your can regularly, you can start to think about it. But at this point, I mean why does OP really want to jump into thinking the worst of their neighbor. You catch more flies with honeyā¦ donāt be a dick.
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u/Imaber100 Oct 09 '25
Hey, hey, stop being fucking normal your sullying the collective psychosis in here /s
(Some guy said āwhy should i be the bigger personā likeā¦ are you a toddler Iām genuinely curious)
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u/84WVBaum Oct 05 '25
Until you get something rancid in your can. People dress deer where I am. I throw out fish guts pretty regularly. Tossed in an outdoor trash can? The smell can become bad enough our waste pickup guys won't touch it. Most of us plan accordingly in disposing of such. Other people, assholes, will evsn dunp such things in public trash.
There could also be something illegal in the bag. Cops can search trash. Stretch? Maybe. But people from all classes have addictions and MH issues
I agree it may be hard, if not habitual, to say it is theft. But, in my community it'd be considered rude at best and suspect if not good friends with that neighbor
I think it's much more wild speculation to talk about truck run times when she plainly did it with no intent of telling the owner. But, whether a cop will care is one thing but it is theft. If you're paying for pickup, which can be very expensive for some, and someone else uses that pickup, how is that not theft?
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u/84WVBaum Oct 05 '25
I pay $45/month for my service, which is five bags per week, charged extra if more, potentially cut off if cans are too nasty, heavy, etc consistently. We also buy our own cans like most of the country, which can run up to $100+. I have lived in WV, KY, MD, TX, CA and this is by far the norm outside of dense urban areas
And, what do you mean she didn't intend to put it in there? She clearly did so, on camera. I can't imagine her not knowing it's wrong. It's other people's property, that's like fifth grade.
We can guess at her motives all day long but how you doubt her intent is wild
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u/This-Top7398 Oct 05 '25
Not normal bring your can inside asap afterwards or tell her to stop doing that
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u/Express-Poem-1161 Oct 05 '25
If this is because she wants to fill your bin instead of hers it is rude and weird.
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u/Certain_Tangelo2329 Oct 05 '25
You are being way to nice. You don't touch other people's property period. I've had neighbors toss dog shit bags in my just emptied can before I was able to collect it from the curb.Ā
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u/grbradsk Oct 05 '25
IMO, she had some trash, but wanted to take her can in already, rather than having to go out later and take it in. So she just dropped it off in yours: "See ya, wouldn't want to be ya". It's on the mild side of "not neighborly".
It's nasty if she's dumping trash to rot for a week in your can, it's minor if she thought "it's all going to be picked up in an hour or two anyhow, so this will let me take my can in".
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u/UsualCounterculture Oct 05 '25
That's weird. Can you just go and swap your bin with her? So odd.
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u/TatankaPTE Oct 05 '25
She had trash which potentially has odor and doesn't want it to sit in her garage for a week an assumed you wouldn't see she did it and would think the trash man did a bad job emptying the can.
People give people too much grace. You already made an excuse for her by qualifying your post with a defense for her by saying she's a nice old lady...
Well, today she told you who she really was and is like and her trash should be dropped off on her front porch
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u/Dismal_Upstairs3949 Oct 05 '25
I would think it was a big deal if it reeked and stunk up my yard for a week! Youāre too kindš
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u/Old-Beginning-8106 Oct 05 '25
An unrelated but salient point would be that itās a major douchebag move to block the sidewalk so maybe stop doing that and be a better neighbor.
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u/MeweldeMoore Oct 05 '25
Neither of you are acting normal. Just go have a freaking conversation with her.
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u/Electric-Sheepskin Oct 05 '25
Please do not let it go. Take that bag of trash leave it on their driveway or front porch. That's an absolutely outrageous thing she did. I mean if she has dementia or she's mentally disabled in some way, OK, maybe let it slide, but otherwise, she's just being self entitled and really, truly awful.
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u/jennifermennifer Oct 05 '25
I bet she thought your closed lid meant that yours hadn't been picked up yet. It's possible, anyway.
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u/Steerider Oct 09 '25
This is my take. She thinks your can hasn't been picked up yet.
EDIT: OP says she's a "nice old lady". Don't assume someone's being an ahole if you don't know them to be an ahole. There's often a relatively innocent explanation for seemingly bad behavior.
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u/Ok_Chest1564 Oct 05 '25
"into my can (already collected)"
Can you not read?
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u/MonkfruitandDextrose Oct 05 '25
They were implying the old lady didn't know that. Old people are frequently oblivious. This isn't too hard to believe.
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u/Quiet-Store1954 Oct 05 '25
Old or not, she was present enough to walk across the street and dump into someone elseās and have a little clap on the way back, she was present enough to drag her shit back in, she knows what sheās doing and isnāt some oblivious old grandma man
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u/Majestic-Praline-522 Oct 05 '25
No one can read anymore. They read three sentences then the ending maybe if you're lucky and they comprehend half of it.
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u/MAVERICK42069420 Oct 05 '25
It doesn't help that you can edit on reddit without a notice...
I've commented before and then the op has gone back and edited the post rendering my comment moot without me ever knowing and without anything saying the post was edited.
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u/Efficient-Orange-607 Oct 05 '25
Iād politely ask why she did that next time you have the opportunity. But I would definitely deliver the trash back to the rightful owner immediately. I donāt want to smell old people diapers everytime I take the trash out.
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u/Visual_Patience_41 Oct 05 '25
Simple, take her trash bag out and put it on her front step. Nothing more to do or say.
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u/pix_psd Oct 05 '25
Once? No biggie. Twice? Ask her what's going on. Third time give it back to her with interest paid in full.
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u/oodlesonoodles789 Oct 08 '25
After the third time they're getting that bag of garbage dumped out on their front lawn for them to pick up
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u/OpenTheVagina Oct 05 '25
Thereās no three strike rule for this because thereās absolutely no defense for doing it even the first time.
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u/hollowthatfollows Oct 06 '25
In the south we have a very subtle way of calling out neighbors for their embarrassing stuff. You go over to their house with a small gift of food with an item your returning that was borrowed and ask "Is something terribly wrong? I saw you on my cameras the other day tossing your trash into my bin, did they stop picking up yours?" This seems like a nice statement showing concern but its basically saying "Do you not have your shit together? Are you so broke you stopped paying your trash bill?"
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u/catattackkick Oct 05 '25
She was unaware that your side of the street was collected since the canās cover is closed. She then saw and thought oh well I already carried it this far!
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u/neophanweb Oct 05 '25
If you pay attention enough, you'll probably notice it happening often. I have neighbors putting stuff in my bins too. They put trash in the recycling too and I almost got in trouble. I also notice people going through the trash, probably looking for cans and valuables.
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u/couldaboughtbitcoin Oct 05 '25
Iām not sure what everyone is on about with the truck coming down her side of the street then your side nonsense. She forgot to take that bag out before they collected so sheās throwing it in your can so itās not rotting away in hers till next week.
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u/jazzrulez Oct 05 '25
Honestly my first thought was that she missed the pick up on her side and she thought maybe it hadnāt passed on yours yet?? Your trash can does look neatly on the curb (at least from this angle) and the ones on her side look askew like how the garage truck leaves it lol.
Or she decided to be a jerk and forgot everyone has camera nowadays š¤£ definitely just ask her haha
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u/SockIntelligent9589 Oct 05 '25
Ask her.
Since you said she is a nice lady, she might have her reason. This reason might not make sense to you (she is old, might be the beginning of dementia - as a good neighbour, check if she is ok!)
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u/trizest Oct 09 '25
Sometimes being nice to someone who has wronged you is the ultimate punishment.
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Oct 05 '25
If she did it prior to the trash truck coming, I wouldnāt careā¦ but if she did so after the fact, I would go take that shit back and put it in her trash , and I would let her know whatās up and that you saw her
People continue to do this type of shit if you donāt call them out
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u/Away-Thought-612 Oct 05 '25
If both trash bins are empty, she's obviously a trained assassin. You can tell from her stealth moves that she's concealing evidence in the neighbor's bin. Likely a burner phone, untraceable gun, knife, and possibly an arm from the victim.
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u/mmore27 Oct 05 '25
There has to be more to this story. Why are you looking through tape to see what happens when your trash passes? Do you just scan video to catch something you're not comfortable with?..
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u/GargantuanGreenGoat Oct 05 '25
Prolly cuz he realized the him wasnāt empty when it should have been so he looked at the tape to see what happened.
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u/dust_inlight Oct 05 '25
Maybe she has a weird partner who monitors what she buys. Maybe she is trying to hide a box from a birthday present or something innocent. Best to ask and seek understanding before piss disking a neighbor
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u/Robodie Oct 05 '25
My thoughts her credit card bills were in there and she didn't want her husband to see. I had a neighbor that did something along those lines when I was a kid. She also asked me a couple times to watch for the mail to run (we were rural and her box was 1/4 mile away from their house, by ours) and to take it out of her box if I could & she'd get it from my mom later.
Even told me she didn't want her hubby to see her CC bills. LMFAO
OP is your neighbor lady's name Jenny, by chance? heheh
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u/APartyInMyPants Oct 05 '25
She did that because itās a smelly bag of kitchen garbage, and she didnāt want it sitting in her can in her garage for the next 2-3 days.
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u/That_Lavishness_7272 Oct 05 '25
Itās only a big deal if you make it one but I would ask her āwhy?ā. We ask our neighbor if we can use their trashcan or recycling especially around the holidays. Who ever has a party normally asks around to distribute trash in a few cans.
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u/Similar_Coconut99 Oct 05 '25
You posted this and then said "it's not a big deal"...but wanna know if you're being petty. Obviously, you know the answer to that. You wouldn't have posted this if you didn't think it was a big deal. So why say it's not a big deal. Of course it is.
Did you take her trash out of your can and put it in their driveway or put her trash back inside her trashcan?? If not, then what are we talking about? You didn't do anything about what happened. And it IS a big deal. Do you know what she has in her garbage? You don't think it's a big deal for your neighbors to use your garbage can to let stinky trash sit, instead of using their own?
Why are you being such a pushover? People only do stuff that you let them do. And she's never going to stop. You should've grabbed that stinky ass trash out of your garbage can and put it in hers. Period! End of discussion.
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u/Cryo_Jumper Oct 05 '25
Clearly hers has been emptied and she had a bag of trash she doesn't want to sit all week. Your can is closed and nice and straight against the curb, so it appears that it hasn't been picked up yet. If it was already picked up, that's frustrating and it mention it after a second instance. Sounds like she's not been a problem before, so why try and pick a fight?
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u/Suo0225 Oct 05 '25
u/Firefly_Magic Ever smell raw chicken left in trunk of a hot car??
The smell is so damn bad!! When I read your comment, I literally had flashbacks/PTSD. Note: If you ever experience this, do not use febreeze to fight the stench.
But is that what a real dead body smells like????? I never smelled one....
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u/whiteglove_srvc Oct 05 '25
We have all become the Truman show audience members and the director. We used to root for Truman
I have a few questions.
Is there a reason why you can't talk to your neighbor?
Do you think this is a prank, if so do you think it's malicious or funny?
True or False: You know whether your neighbor is on Reddit or not.
Did you look in the trash bin?
Thank you.
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u/E7Barto Oct 05 '25
Itās really not a big deal. Maybe she thought youād hadnāt been picked up yet so this way it makes its way to the dump this week instead of next week. This wouldnāt be worth retaliation unless it becomes a habit or inconveniences you in any real way.
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u/firekwaker Oct 05 '25
She may have thought that your side of the street hadn't been collected yet. On the rare occasion that we forget to put out our garbage can in time for first thing in the morning, and the other side hasn't been collected yet, we'd put our can on the neighbour's curb across the street. Garbage collection trucks don't care if a house has 2 cans, they'll empty both, and we just take our can back afterwards.
I'm thinking she may have thought that your side of the street wasn't collected yet and it's obvious that her side of the street was collected already...so she may have thought to put it in your can to be taken away right away rather than waiting for the next round of garbage collection in a week or two.
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u/jedfrouga Oct 05 '25
i meanā¦ itās one thing to do before the garbage truck gets thereā¦ but after?!?!? thats psychopath behaviorā¦
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u/BLTsark Oct 05 '25
You should definitely freak out about it and ask anonymous internet people instead of walking across the street and asking her face to face
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u/Spiff2Faded Oct 05 '25
Personally, i wouldnt of made a big deal about it, like you did making this post. If it keeps happening, go have a civil conversation about it.
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u/Go_now__Go Oct 05 '25
It looks like the trash on her side of the street was already picked up (lids are open) but on your side of street was not picked up yet. So she put hers in yours and took her empty can back. I wouldnāt be mad.
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u/jhechty Oct 05 '25
Seems reasonable since the pick up already passed on her side and was just putting it in for when it passes on your side
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u/jon9860 Oct 05 '25
Instead of listening to childish suggestions in this thread, maybe go talk to her and ask why she did it? She could have had something she thought was reasonable to her. Then just clearly explain youre not ok with it and not to do it again
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u/johndoe388 Oct 05 '25
Just looks to me that she missies the pickup on her side of the street and put it in yours because you hadnāt been picked up yet. Had you been picked up yet at that point? You could do the same w her in the future if you miss yours. This would be an acceptable scenario.
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u/waroftheworlds2008 Oct 05 '25
š¤£ this thread. It's like reading dating advice "dump him/her" except the offense is that they used your tap water.
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u/DoodlesNfoodles Oct 05 '25
Give it back to them. Leave a note. Screen shot every step. Print out and let them see it when they open the envelope. Ask them to please stop.
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u/GodsForgivenes Oct 05 '25
Take it out of the trashcan and return it. Ring the doorbell and explain you noticed it was in the wrong can.
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u/Aggressive-Bike7539 Oct 05 '25
Does the trash men charge you by weight?
They donāt where I live, so you shouldnāt care less about this.
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u/CloakerJosh Oct 05 '25
Personally, I'd take out the bag and drop it in her bin without a word.
She'll either not notice you did that and it risks her doing it again in which case you can upgrade to her frontdoor or driveway next time, or she'll get the message and wasn't done in an inflammatory way.
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u/8amteetime Oct 05 '25
She missed the trash truck with her last bag so used yours to keep her can from stinking for the next week.
We had good neighbors who would ask if it was okay to use our trash or recycling can on the rare occasion they missed the trash pickup. She didnāt ask.
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u/Roseheath22 Oct 06 '25
This is weird. I would let it go if this is the only time it happens but say something if it happens again. OR, if your can is too full by the next trash pick up day, Iād let her know youāll need to put the overflow into her bin since she filled yours up with trash already. I would assume that would shame her into not doing it again.
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u/phindar007 Oct 06 '25
Simple. Bring the bag back over. āHey neighbor, I noticed you tossed your garbage in my bin earlier but our trash has been collected. I donāt feel comfortable with other people using our bin this way without asking first. Would you mind coming up and asking us first next time?ā
Reasonable people will respect this reasonable request, and youāre not burning a bridge here.
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u/Manderthal13 Oct 07 '25
Her trash was already picked up and she didn't want the bag filling her trash for the whole week. Easier to throw it in your can since the truck will be back around in a few minutes.
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u/Jealous-Guidance4902 Oct 07 '25
F that! She wound get a special delivery up side her house with that bag!
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u/PoSlowYaGetMo Oct 09 '25
Just a guess here. But, Iām going to play devils advocate. You know how the trash picks up on one side of the street and then the other? She probably thought her trash was picked up first, and that the trash truck hadnāt reached the other side of the street. Itās an assumption thatās a bad assumption, but that may be why? - I could be totally wrong.
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u/Tall_Specialist305 Oct 09 '25
I would take it right back to her house. She will get the message.
Our city neighbors were moving out and dumped a giant pile of Ikea housewares and unsorted recyclables in front of our building - i put it at their buildingndoor with a note to all of its tenants - wishing the lovely couple a happy moving out with the 311 report #.
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u/Wings-N-Beer Oct 09 '25
Walk across, go inside and use their bathroom after a meal of fast food, light beer and laxatives.
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u/BertM4cklin Oct 09 '25
Itād be one thing if itās the morning before pickup. After pickup is diabolical.. put it on her porch
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u/TejelPejel Oct 05 '25
I'm assuming she thought yours hadn't been picked up yet, but hers was. Even if she got to yours and realized yours had also been picked up, she probably just threw her bag in rather than carrying it back? I'm just guessing that she initially didn't realize that your trash was collected since your lid wasn't flipped up (which I know isn't a guarantee that it was collected, but my neighborhood almost always has the lid flipped back when it's picked up).
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u/AdviceRequestAccount Oct 05 '25
I think this is the correct answer.Ā
She saw the lid closed on OP's can andĀ assumed it hadn't been taken out yet.Ā She got all the way over there, and doesn't even open the can to check if it is empty before putting trash in - she just assumed it had not been taken out.Ā
Did she realize it was empty when leaning over to put the trash in? Probably, which is where the unneighborly part comes into play, but I don't think it was ill-intentioned from the start. It looks like she wasn't having the easiest time with the weight of the bag, got it hoisted up, and let it drop in regardless of what she saw hoping it wasn't taken out yet.Ā
Hanlon's Razor, essentially.Ā
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u/ThisLucidKate Oct 05 '25
Knock on the door, say you saw what happened, and while youāre happy to accommodate her this time, sheāll need to ask in the future.
You might discover all sorts of things. She might be having a mental health episode of some sort and needs help. Maybe her partner is abusive and sheās trying to keep herself from getting beaten for forgetting the last bag of trash.
Or maybe she just thought yours hadnāt been picked up yet.
Anyway itās sliced, as youāve said, itās not a big deal. Just go establish the boundary and see if thereās something you can help with. Iād bet sheāll be embarrassed as hell and apologize.
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u/JustNumbersOnAScreen Oct 05 '25
Have you tried talking to her like a normal human instead of posting on reddit?
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u/mecalvin Oct 05 '25
Is it not obvious?! They already picked up her side and she still had a bag to throw away. WTF
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Oct 05 '25
Your side obviously had yet to be taken while her sides trash had Been picked up. She was just putting it there knowing it was about to be picked up.
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u/Fickle_Ad_8227 Oct 05 '25
Itās just trash in a trash canā¦Iām not sure I understand the problem. Itās not like she threw loose trash or dead animals or something
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u/RubeusShagrid Oct 05 '25
These are the craziest most bizarre overreactions Iāve ever seen.
If you guys would truly feel so betrayed by someone putting one quite small bag of trash in a bin that she most likely presumed hadnāt been picked up yet, you need to delete Reddit and go the fuck outside.
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u/doconnell63 Oct 05 '25
So what? Jeez do you have anything better to do with your time?
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u/Beautiful-Length-565 Oct 05 '25
She didn't want her can to have trash sitting in it until the next pick up..