Bubblecar said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Bubblecar said:

All my general rubbish goes into small bags in the bin in the boot room, which then go into big rubbish bags, placed in the general rubbish wheelie.

I can store the surplus bags in the giant empty FOGO bin which I hardly ever use (it only sees use when Mr Tunks trims my hedges, which is not often).

By next bin day the bags in the general bin will have subsided somewhat and I’ll be able to squeeze an extra bag in, and so on for the following collection.

There’s no need to send an emergency squad here in a special helicopter to deal with this regrettable situation.

Being the busy-body I am I just called your council pretending to be your friend across town and the lovely lady said she’d be able to get your bin collected today. Pretending again, not knowing your street number I said you’d give her a call back.

Sounds a bit far-fetched. I’ll give them a call.

…AND as expected, they won’t come back. She asked why they’d missed it, and I said it was because I had a builder here whose vehicle was in the way.

“Ah, well they won’t come back, ‘cos it wasn’t their fault. If it was a vehicle in the way, they won’t come back.”

But you’re right, she didn’t actually laugh at me :)