It's great to be a good neighbour - it can give us a great sense of pride to do nice little acts to make the lives of those who live next to us easier and nicer. With many neighbours, there's an unsaid rule that if they do something for you, you may do something for them in return and vice versa.
However, one woman has taken to Mumsnet to explain how her neighbour used to take her bin out for her and she would bring it in, but for some reason he stopped doing it - and she didn't know what to do about it.
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She wrote: "Okay first world problems I know... I've lived in my property for five years. It's a terraced house. Both mine and neighbours bin are next to each other.
"We had no chat about it but every fortnight he would put my bin out then on a night I would bring both of our bins in. A month ago he started just putting his bin out. I still continued to bring his bin in for him. Today is bin day and once again he just took his bin out and left mine.
"Am I being unreasonable to keep bringing his bin in? Should I leave it? I don't want to be petty and it's no skin off my nose as it takes two seconds What would you do?"
The bin drama caused a debate in the comments, with some telling her to continue doing what she was doing, and others telling her to stop because he might not want her to bother with his bin.
One wrote: "Put your bin out yourself, leave his to bring it in himself. There’s no need to talk to him about it."
Others were more reasonable, commenting: "Maybe there's some medical reason he can't do it right now? A full bin can be heavy and quite difficult to wheel. In the absence of any other negative vibes I'd keep taking his bin in for the present and see what transpires."
Another said: "Keep bringing his bin in. He'll have a reason for having stopped taking yours out. Maybe one week it was too heavy."
Someone else took it as an excuse to complain about their neighbours writing: "Where we live our neighbours are old and awful. One particular neighbour will bring everyone's in and leave ours out. Which is fine because I don't have a problem with it but I laugh at the pettiness!"
Others blamed the original poster, commenting: "Have you ever thought it might be your turn to take out the smelly, heavy, full bins and he brings in the light empty ones? It's been 5 years, you've been taking the p***!"
What would you do in this situation? Let us know in the comments.
