Stolen Bin
On Monday, we had our rubbish bin go missing. It was there in the morning when all of us left the house, and it was missing when the first of us came back.
Of course, there was a bit of an investigation into all of this and my mum was especially wondering why the bin suddenly went missing just as the neighbours had some people come over to install a water bore.
So she decided to act on this instinct and told my dad to speak to the neighbours about what had happened, and feed them some story about some kids seeing the bore people taking the bin. Of course, our neighbour denied anything had happened and promised to have another talk to the bore people when they came back the next day.
The next day, my mum managed to catch up with our neighbour again, just before the bore people arrive. It turned out that he had talked to them on the phone, and they had said that they were annoyed we drove over their hose on our way out of our house. Which was somewhat surprising because they had left the hose on our driveway and hadn't even had the courtesy to tell us it was there.
Anyway. The bore people finally turned up and told my mum that they had seen "kids stealing the bin", which is a plausible story, only made unbelieveable by the post-script: "And by the way, did you know you drove over our $500 hose?"
Following this, my mum left to go wherever she needed to go, and happened to find the bin left in the bushes of our garden on her way back in. Our neighbour saw her and said that "the kids must have brought it back". .... Right.
The bore people were still around, but did not know about this exchange. When they saw my mum was inside, they secretively brought the bin out of the bushes and laid it on the grass outside. Unbeknownst to them, we were all home, watching as they confirmed their guilt.
Fun.
Of course, there was a bit of an investigation into all of this and my mum was especially wondering why the bin suddenly went missing just as the neighbours had some people come over to install a water bore.
So she decided to act on this instinct and told my dad to speak to the neighbours about what had happened, and feed them some story about some kids seeing the bore people taking the bin. Of course, our neighbour denied anything had happened and promised to have another talk to the bore people when they came back the next day.
The next day, my mum managed to catch up with our neighbour again, just before the bore people arrive. It turned out that he had talked to them on the phone, and they had said that they were annoyed we drove over their hose on our way out of our house. Which was somewhat surprising because they had left the hose on our driveway and hadn't even had the courtesy to tell us it was there.
Anyway. The bore people finally turned up and told my mum that they had seen "kids stealing the bin", which is a plausible story, only made unbelieveable by the post-script: "And by the way, did you know you drove over our $500 hose?"
Following this, my mum left to go wherever she needed to go, and happened to find the bin left in the bushes of our garden on her way back in. Our neighbour saw her and said that "the kids must have brought it back". .... Right.
The bore people were still around, but did not know about this exchange. When they saw my mum was inside, they secretively brought the bin out of the bushes and laid it on the grass outside. Unbeknownst to them, we were all home, watching as they confirmed their guilt.
Fun.
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