There's something in my bin !

[Gritt23]

What should I do?

I threw a plastic bag in my bin at work when I got in this morning, and it hasn't stopped rustling since. I took a glance in, because it seemed strange, and I thought I saw a little green creature in there. Could be my imagination, or it could be a frog.

The trouble is, if I rummage around in the bin, hoping it's a beetle or something, to get it out, and it turns out to be a frog, then I turn into a big screaming girl. I don't know why, I can't explain it, maybe it's the way they jump at you, I don't know, but frogs do that to me.

Sitting here in my office all day, turning nervously every few minutes to look at the bin as it continues to rustle will drive me crazy. But the thought of me running out into the rest of the office screaming hysterically, shouting "frog, frog" doesn't appeal to me either. It's just not how the Financial Controller is supposed to behave.

Help.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

What should I do?

I threw a plastic bag in my bin at work when I got in this morning, and it hasn't stopped rustling since. I took a glance in, because it seemed strange, and I thought I saw a little green creature in there. Could be my imagination, or it could be a frog.

The trouble is, if I rummage around in the bin, hoping it's a beetle or something, to get it out, and it turns out to be a frog, then I turn into a big screaming girl. I don't know why, I can't explain it, maybe it's the way they jump at you, I don't know, but frogs do that to me.

Sitting here in my office all day, turning nervously every few minutes to look at the bin as it continues to rustle will drive me crazy. But the thought of me running out into the rest of the office screaming hysterically, shouting "frog, frog" doesn't appeal to me either. It's just not how the Financial Controller is supposed to behave.

Help.

Do your workmates know about your frog phobia?

If they do, its a frog.

 

[tedebear]

are you in an office up high?? Cause my suggestion if you can without looking like a raving loony, is to take your bin outside with a piece of paper over the top and tip it up in the gutter or another bigger bin!!

 

[Scarface]

You big GIRL!

 

[Gritt23]

Hans Hraay - no, so it's not a prank.

Tedebear - no, and because it's a rough area there are metal grills on the outside of the windows, so they don't open far enough to get a bin out.

Scarface - oh I know.

 

[tedebear]

put glad wrap over the top for the day then!!

 

[Trufflehound]

Pour half a cup of petrol in and light a match.

If it goes WOOF! it was a dog...

 

[Gritt23]

put glad wrap over the top for the day then!!

I think I will have to put something over the top, just so that I can convince myself it can't get out. But cling film or similar would involve having to get too close to the bin - and potentially of course, the frog who is growing in stature in my mind by the minute. Some sort of file, or big pad is probably the favourite as I could just toss it on the top.

Trouble is, what do I do with my rubbish? I generate tonnes of it an hour. I can't have a bin that I can't put things in.

:thud:

 

[NMH]

I don't buy this story about frogs - how the crap is a FROG going to be inside your bloody rubbish bin fercrissakes?

My guess is, that it is in fact an armadillo.

Now there is a nice, sweet creature. Slightly smelly, but won't jump at you.
Get in there man, and rescue that poor armadillo at once.

 

[tedebear]

well then - you'll have to take a look won't you - go armed with metal ruler in one hand and put your sunglasses on or something!!

 

[Trufflehound]

how the crap is a FROG going to be inside your bloody rubbish bin fercrissakes?

Perhaps the badgers were using him as a tiddlywink?

 

[bhaexpress]

Maybe it's a dead frog ..... Maybe it's croaked ........

 

[Easy 10]

Don't worry Gritty, I doubt very much it'll be a frog.

Probably a rat.

 

[tedebear]

mybe one of those big elephant beetles with the pincers on its head??

 

[Gritt23]

I don't buy this story about frogs - how the crap is a FROG going to be inside your bloody rubbish bin fercrissakes?

My guess is, that it is in fact an armadillo.

Now there is a nice, sweet creature. Slightly smelly, but won't jump at you.
Get in there man, and rescue that poor armadillo at once.

And how exactly would an armadillo get into my bin?

 

[Gritt23]

mybe one of those big elephant beetles with the pincers on its head??

Honestly, that would be fine. If I could convince myself it's that, I'd be alright. But I can't get out of my head the vision of it turning out to be a frog and then the sight of me charging like a big screaming girl out of my office, and past the rather attractive and big breasted young girl who's temping with us at the moment.

 

[tedebear]

Honestly, that would be fine. If I could convince myself it's that, I'd be alright. But I can't get out of my head the vision of it turning out to be a frog and then the sight of me charging like a big screaming girl out of my office, and past the rather attractive and big breasted young girl who's temping with us at the moment.

ask her to have a look ?? good conversation starter!!

 

[tinx]

Just pick up your bin and swap it with another unsuspecting fools bin that way its someone elses problem.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Get a straw. Then get one of those cans of compressed air you use to clean the keyboard. Put something sugary on the end of the straw. Put the straw into the bin, as soon as you feel something pull the end, unload the compressed air down it.

Voila - either a strange party balloon for the office, or messy minced frog!

 

[bhaexpress]