This morning I didn't get off to the best of starts anyway...... I fell back
asleep after my alarm went off, so by the time I woke up again I had 20
minutes in which to dress myself, dress and feed the 2 children, do my
daughters sandwiches, get coats on and leave to be at the school on time!
Looked out the window and saw it was THROWING it down with rain, so also had
to find wellies, umberellas, raincover for the pushchair etc..... and THEN I
remembered it's Tuesday!!! AAARRGGHHH!! Bin Collection day! ...... and guess
who'd forgot to put ours out?
So, having put the bin and the 2 recycling boxes out, we headed off for the
school still on time! ..........until I hit the obstacle course that is
everyones wheelie bins!
Honestly! It's like trying to do a cycling profficiency test..with a
pushchair! I had to weave in and out of bins, and at one point I had to
negotiate how to get round a bin in the middle of the path using only 2
wheels (ours is a 3 wheeler) without tipping the pushchair into the road!!
Then, just as I'm nearing the school and I think the worst is over, there's
the bin lorry blocking the entire road!!!! The school is at the end of a
narrow cul-de-sac, so one bin blocks the path anyway, plus everyone parks
their cars half on the pavement so the bin lorry can get through, and then
there's the added bonus of parents driving their kids to school who can't
get through either, so the whole road was completley blocked off!!!!
So, I'm standing there drenched by this time, the rain has soaked through my
coat, one of my boots has decided to split so my sock is squelching and if
looks could melt wheelie bins!!! Well.......
The whole scene was only missing a police car and a bit of yellow tape. We
could have had an official blockade!!!!
I'd be better off getting a jet pack and flying to the school!!!
I ought to print off some stickers and stick them to wheelie bins on my way
to the school next week..."Please park your bin courteously!".
Honestly, whats wrong with having your wheelie bin outside your
house?....but no. Round here it's like people are ashamed of having rubbish
outside their house, so they ABANDON their bin as far from their house as
possible, at an angle, in the middle of the path so noone can get past
it!!...
But, as they say, things can only get better, so now I'm all nice and dry
and warm and calm again, I hope the rest of my day is better!!!
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