Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / May 2007

Following on from my 'that was odd post'..... Feeling thoroughly
nauseous now.

Before todays post arrived I decided it was high time (small pun there1)
I cleaned out our wheelie bin that takes our general rubbish. Our
council has started picking up our bins fortnightly. The weather has
warmed and our bin was beginning to pong rather. The number of flies
coming into the house has been alarming.

Embarrassing confession here - I've never scrubbed out the bin
before,all our waste is wrapped and somehow it hadnt occurred to me. So
I wasn't quite sure how to manage it. The bin is chest high so I figured
pouring hot soapy water in it with disinfectant then scrubbing it with a
broom would do the trick.

It seemed to work well but then I was struck with my problem - how to
get rid of the waste water...... I can't reach the bottom without
falling in so the only way I could do it was tip it out, but where...?
Only place I could think of was the drain in the road, no where in our
garden seemed suitable. It didnt seem ideal but I honeslty couldnt work
out what the right thing to do was.

So I tipped it out in the road drain. To my horror it went every where
but the drain. I had no idea how much gunk and disguised rubbish was at
the bottom :-/ Our nice neighbourhood road was now throughly ick.
Shamefaced, bright red I had to pick up all the gunk off the road and
sweep the horrid water down the drain chased by buckets of clean water.

So now you all know my shameful secret lol!!

Sarah