Bizarre conversations with the council part 27b

[venta]

I just rang up Oxford city council to get us a new green-box to put the recycling in; ours has taken itself off somewhere on its own business.

So, the nice lady asked me for my postcode. I try to be helpful[*], so I spelt out the postcode in an O-for-Orange kind of way.

The following ensued:

Me: E for elephant.
NiceLady: Is that elephant or alephant ?
Me <too confused to answer sensibly>: Yes.
NiceLady: OK, elephant. What house number ?

Just.... eh?

[*]Yes, really. Sometimes I do.

Comments

[chrisvenus]

Oooh... how do you get a new box? We had ours taken away ages ago (complete with all the recycling we left in it curiously enough) and have never bothered to get a new one. Given the amounts of cans we have to recycle it might be an idea though.

We reckon that given they say (if I rmember correctly) "leave it outside empty" if you don't want it any more that one guy came and emptied it and the next guy came and went "oh, its empty" and nicked it. :)

Bloody people. :)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Ring them up and demand another one - the phone book has the right no. listed on the OCitC page IIRC. I do think you're right about the 'leave it empty if you don't want it' bit - the people that empty them are supposed to turn them upside down or put them back in your garden or something, once they've emptied them, but they never do. I occasionally have to retrieve ours from three or four doors down (ours is marked with large numbers and a sticker, as was the one that disappeared), and once it wound up in the next cul-de-sac along, somehow. (DH happened on it the next day when he went round to see someone.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Call 'em on 0800 7831957.

Don't use the word elephant.