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

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

I think that house has a green box curse. In fact that road does.
The poor green boxes must be terrified, they keep being vanished by the green box eating monster.

[triskellian]

We have a spare green box, if it's any help. The thieving oiks who nicked our first one left it, weeks later, lying around on the pavement a bit down from our house, with our house number on the side, so I reclaimed it.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Since moving house I've been trying to find the safest way to get the address across a telephone. You can try too hard, as I found when ringing the ICA box office:

'Piano Studios.'
'Which studios?'
'Piano. Like the instrument.'
'Piana? What's a piana? I've never heard of that fucking instrument ... Oops, good thing this isn't being recorded or I'd have lost my job.'

[condign.livejournal.com]

Never underestimate the incompetence of the council. You might just ask them straight off if they nicked it.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

It took us three weeks to get our green box replaced when some thieving oiks went off with it. Oxford clearly don't actually approve of the scheme, they seem so incompetent at administering it. What's really annoying is that the flats opposite our house have recycling bins and we're not allowed to touch them, there's big signs saying so. We sneak over at night sometimes and put bottles in them, but can't help feeling the City Council would like to prosecute us for doing so, or something.

[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. :)

[voratus.livejournal.com]

What about olifants?

[uitlander]

I'll match your oliphant and raise by a heffalump!