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Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 12:38 pm Post subject: Do you accost people at the dump?

We've spent much of Easter having a clear out, so this morning a carefully loaded the volvo with four lots of charity stuff - household and furniture for poverty aid; kids clothes and toys for the kids hospice shop; books for oxfam books. Afterwards, all that was left was a box of magazines and a dozen old ring binders that no-one wanted, so I called in at the dump on the way back.

"Excuse me have you thought about taking those to a charity shop and being less wastefull?" Said the young lady. "Yes" "I said, "I have and I have but they don't want them, do you", "Oh no" she says, "but you shouldn't throw them away".

My gast was flabbered.

BahamaMama

Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 1:19 pm Post subject:
Did you give them to her?

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 1:40 pm Post subject:
I would have rolled them up and inserted them one by one so that her voice rose to a level where only the bats could find her tiresome.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 2:08 pm Post subject:
Somebody once told me off for picking blackberries - she said I was stealing from the birds. I pointed out that the birds didn't actually eat the fruit, they left it to rot and I was going to put it to good use...

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Location: 91� N

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 2:16 pm Post subject:
I thought you meant accost as in to take things from them before they dumped them not accost as in repimand people for not holding your opinion. Either way the answer is no, in the first case as the dump recycle and sell the stuff themselves and in the second because in Britain's caring sharing modern world you're more likely to get thumped as a response rather than a considered response.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 4:30 pm Post subject:
I give my things away at Slut Meetings, instead .

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: Do you accost people at the dump?

Behemoth wrote:

so I called in at the dump on the way back.

Big question has to be what was your accostor doing at the dump? Most people only go there to dump stuff (IIRC)

jamsam

Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 2560
Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 5:13 pm Post subject:
i tend to follow the builders around collecting the things they leave behind!!!...best find..a pair of stained glass windows!!! i did once pull over and ask a young lad why he was fly tipping to which the boys wound down the back window and pointed and hysterically chanted " fly tipper, fly tipper". he was not amused!

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 5:35 pm Post subject:
Someone once pulled into a layby to berate me for flytipping---until I pointed out that I was actually loading my car with old bricks someone had fly tipped there. I don't suppose accosting someone at the dump is worse than suggesting to total strangers they don't need a carrier bag which I've heard people do. Seems rude to me.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 5:36 pm Post subject:
Or any worse than going up to pregnant women in restaurants and telling them they shouldn't be drinking .

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: South West

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 5:41 pm Post subject:

marigold wrote:

Somebody once told me off for picking blackberries - she said I was stealing from the birds. I pointed out that the birds didn't actually eat the fruit, they left it to rot and I was going to put it to good use...

You should have said that that was the whole point, you were employed by the local council to reduce the local bird population by stealing their winter food.

And then added an evil laugh.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 7:09 pm Post subject:

Brownbear wrote:

marigold wrote:

You should have said that that was the whole point, you were employed by the local council to reduce the local bird population by stealing their winter food.

And then added an evil laugh.

As I have mentioned elsewhere I am a humourless old bat

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 09 7:40 pm Post subject:
OH and I were taking old carpet up to the allotment to control to control the brambles when some-one drove past and yelled out of the window - "F*****g Gyppos!!"

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 09 8:44 am Post subject:
Maybe it had nothing to do with the carpet.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 09 4:00 pm Post subject:
We weren'ty too sure - may have been the transit van, may have been we were rather scruffy, may have been the carpet but it was uncalled for.

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