Do my neighbours hide wine?

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:44 pm

Every 2nd thursday around here is recycle bottles & cans day. Now most nights of the week we sit down to dinner with a bottle of wine, you can imagine thats quite a few bottles come recycling day, its a rather small box thats provided by the local authority & therefore i always have a bag with bottles in it that sits at the side of the box. In all the time since this has started ive never once seen any of my neighbours boxes with any wine (or alcohol of any kind come to think of it)

at the side, you cant miss seeing them as the boxes are all on the pavement / sidewalk at our cars. So do you think i live in an alcohol free neighbourhood or my neighbours are hiding wine bottles

Its odd, dont you think? Are people ashamed? Do they take bottles to the dump seperately so no-one sees any alcohol consumption?

Surely we are not the only couple in the street who drink :-3

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:49 pm

Maybe they drink boxed wine.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:58 pm

Seriously tho clancy, you'd think they would have at least a couple of bottles in a fortnight? i mean c'mon its Scotland :wah:

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:08 pm

If you're worried about your consumption of alcohol compared to your neighbors'...perhaps it's time to think about that?

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:09 pm

Lulu get a grip :wah:

dont you think its odd they dont have any at all in a fortnight ?

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:13 pm

they might be dropping the bottles off in someone else's container......

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:14 pm

Clancy;486538 wrote: You've got neighbours who dont want their habits known

They are sellotaping their empties together

so they don't chink 'n clink

It's an old dodge.

.....Edinburgh people started that trend

ok so they take them to the dump late at night so no-one sees :wah:

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:15 pm

guppy;486539 wrote: they might be dropping the bottles off in someone else's container......

Possibly but why? are they ashamed?

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:17 pm

buttercup;486541 wrote: Possibly but why? are they ashamed?

sneaky......who knows............heck, they could be dropping half a dozen bottles off down the road in diff. containers............:driving:

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:22 pm

Same thing in my nieghborhood I seem to be the only one throwing away 1/2 gallon bottles of rum every day. Strange. Its a joke Lulu.:wah:

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:30 pm

Clancy;486550 wrote: I think you may be onto something there , Lulu

Loook at, buttercup's, av

That kiss was meant to be on the lips, and she's way off target ....she's disorientated.

.....It's the vino that causes that.

Im very tall, he's very small

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:37 pm

maybe they recycle them some other way.

apparently the UK has something called "bottle banks"

they might just prefer not to display what they need to dispose of?

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:39 pm

Oh well i'll just have to put my hands up to being the local alkie :wah:

gives em something to talk about.

Red · Post by **Red** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:07 pm

buttercup;486512 wrote: Every 2nd thursday around here is recycle bottles & cans day. Now most nights of the week we sit down to dinner with a bottle of wine, you can imagine thats quite a few bottles come recycling day, its a rather small box thats provided by the local authority & therefore i always have a bag with bottles in it that sits at the side of the box. In all the time since this has started ive never once seen any of my neighbours boxes with any wine (or alcohol of any kind come to think of it)

at the side, you cant miss seeing them as the boxes are all on the pavement / sidewalk at our cars. So do you think i live in an alcohol free neighbourhood or my neighbours are hiding wine bottles

Its odd, dont you think? Are people ashamed? Do they take bottles to the dump seperately so no-one sees any alcohol consumption?

Surely we are not the only couple in the street who drink :-3

just wondering...do u check your bag...maybe the cheeky buggers are slipping their empties in it to avoid detection........? :rolleyes:

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:11 pm

Awww bless you Red :-4

Nah think its fair to say its all our bottles, we enjoy wine with dinner

Red · Post by **Red** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:24 pm

hmm oh well, i was never very good at detective work *hangs columbo mac up*

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:43 pm

:wah:

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:57 pm

Seriously. You dont think its boxed wine????

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buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:59 pm

Possible

, i'll get a shot of Red's columbo mac & check on paper recycle day

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:40 pm

buttercup;486528 wrote: Seriously tho clancy, you'd think they would have at least a couple of bottles in a fortnight? i mean c'mon its Scotland :wah:

Well, that's what I was thinking, too. In a good way, mind you. Ancestral Scottish blood runs through my veins, as does alcohol from all over the world. (Not all at once, though).

Here in Ontario, we're starting a refundable deposit on all booze bottles come February, so I've been keeping mine in the basement until then.

I shake my head in disbelief at my neighbour's clear plastic leaf bag, full of pop cans.

Takes all kinds, I guess.

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:12 am

buttercup;486537 wrote: Lulu get a grip :wah:

dont you think its odd they dont have any at all in a fortnight ?

We never buy wine . I don't really like the stuff and just one glass gives me the worst hangover ever, so don't buy it . We rarely drink at all . He may have the odd can of guinness in the evening and maybe the odd glass of tramp juice(Cider)in the summer and i can honestly say ive been drunk once in about the last 7/8 years (gave it up in order to help conceive). My neighbours drink bottles of the stuff (i know because of the bottles they throw away) . Does that make us odd because we don't drink .

Elvira · Post by **Elvira** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:56 am

THey know that you snoop in their boxes (so's to speak!) so hide theirs somewhere else...

s x

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:49 am

pantsonfire321@aol.com;487057 wrote: We never buy wine . I don't really like the stuff and just one glass gives me the worst hangover ever, so don't buy it . We rarely drink at all . He may have the odd can of guinness in the evening and maybe the odd glass of tramp juice(Cider)in the summer and i can honestly say ive been drunk once in about the last 7/8 years (gave it up in order to help conceive). My neighbours drink bottles of the stuff (i know because of the bottles they throw away) . Does that make us odd because we don't drink .

Yup

Elvira · Post by **Elvira** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:19 am

I try to limit my drinking to the weekend, but we love good wine, and I've always got a good few bottles to put in the box. I don't mind people seeing them though, as for those that know, they're lovely wines!

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:32 am

pantsonfire321@aol.com;487057 wrote: i can honestly say ive been drunk once in about the last 7/8 years (gave it up in order to help conceive).

Quite often, it happens the other way 'round.

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pantsonfire321@aol.com · Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:52 am

Richard Bell;487343 wrote: Quite often, it happens the other way 'round.

Sadly not for me .