Simon Barnett drops his daughter in it over her bad bin behaviour

Regular listeners to SI & James Afternoons will know by now that Simon is a bit of a tidy freak.

To his shame, his daughter Sophie doesn't have quite the same obsessive personality and she has one habit that drives him mad.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm going to drop my daughter in it, she text me,
because I must have said it to a couple of
hours ago that I was going to and all her
friends have obviously listened and texted her and said, your
dad's going to bag you. I'm not going to bag
Sophie Barnet or Tiawa actually that's her surname now, not Barnett.
She ditched me in favor of her husband's name.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's what happens, is a get old. You're no longer
the king of the castle.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's correct anyway, So our rubbish day, like all subdivisions.
You're in my subdivision, James, you put your rubbish bins
out on the Monday or the Tuesday, whatever it is. Now,
put your bins out now. I've noticed at my daughter's house.
She lives around the corner from me, and I was
taking James home from work yesterday, wasn't I.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
And you have to drive past her house to get
to your place and my place.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
And I notice it all the time. You said it.
I noticed it all the time. Here's what you did.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
We're driving along, you go, Oh, Sophie lives up here.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Just buy that red rubbish bin. Oh all out.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's so, she's one of these people that rubbish days.
Let's call it Monday and then Thursday the bin's still
on the street. And I'm a dad and I'm like embarrassed.
I'm like, put your bin away. Hey, she's a big girl.
Now she can do what she likes. She can say,
get stuffed dead. No, what's your excuse because it's like

(01:29):
it's embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Are you the chief of the homeowners association? And our
on the colonel of the cul de sack?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I like that on the line is my said daughter,
the one that's just really really hello, Sophie, the one.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
That's just she's always been the black she with the family.
She's always let me down.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Hey, Sophie, has your father always been this obsessive about
bloom and rubbish bins?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Well not just rubbish bins, Jane, I should tell you
this is classic my dad. Honestly, this fits his personality
to a tea. The fact that he would notice that
it's just yeah, speak volumes. You should see him if
he comes to my house. I've got two kids under two.
He will look around and be like, oh, there's a
little bit of plate under that cout he Honestly, this

(02:24):
is classic, my dad.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
And when you come to my house and the kids
get their little smeary I don't like that either.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Put them all over the table. I wipe this place
down before you've even left.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
I know, I know you're sitting down for a coffee.
You're just there's painting the whole time, watching all the
some mark there all someone.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
So you dropped the crumb over here, Mila, exactly here
it is. You can no, don't eat that, all right?
So look, so I get it, But what's your excuse?
Like I do? I notice every week you like it? Like,
what's your.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
Prot That's it. That's my excuse is that the bindet
goes out, and my im that the Russh collector has
come around and got it. I'm bus early, mate, don't
know and all that. And then by the time it's
ready for me to go out and bring back in,
it's dark and my husband is out at league training,
and I frankly am too scared to go out me
by myself and.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Bring it up.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Fair enough, because we live in a terrible suburb were
you You're too scared. It's like it's daylight. Really, I mean,
it's what are you scared of?

Speaker 5 (03:29):
It's well, but when I when I well usually when
I think to go and bring the bin in right,
So I know it's the lame excuse, I know.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
But it's so built up our subdivision. There's neighbors a
meter right and left right behind.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
I'm aware. You're also aware. I walked out of the
cinema and Narnia because I got scared. Personality.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, she had to turn off Peter Pan when she
was a kid because Captain Hook freaked her out.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
I do notice that every now and again, when it's
been out there for a bit too long, someone does
there's a phantom bringer in And I noticed on dri
And now I'm for this whole time.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I did it twice.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Hey, Sophie, the reason we're even talking about this is
that Simon gave me a lift home. Your dad gave
me a left home yesterday, and we're driving past your place. Yeah,
and he goes, Sophie lives up here. Oh, just wear
that red binners. Oh god, they always leave their bin out.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
No great, let's give need permission to go and pick
whatever he's got at his house. But fair enough, leave
my outside.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Just place that fair enough. Hey, just while we're at it,
your lawns and need to.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Lawn. If you weren't about the fin like, don't come
through bect so.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I love you with all my heart, Sophie. We've got
to text to you.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
You nice to check guys, Sophie, we've got to text here,
says Simon.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Don't blame the kids, blame the parents exactly. I like
that picture, stupid mum, Love your sweetheart, love you bye. Yeah.
Ah well, oh boy, I've got all hotts over there.
She's the one that got away. She let us down.
But there you go.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
The and the family. The other three are good. I
think you can still just gently knock on the door.
This is the way to solve it. Oh hey, and
those ship been still out? Can I put it away
for we? Would that be helpful? That's would you like me?
Would you like me to pop it away for you?
Pop it away is even nicer? Pop it away? Good
luck with that mate.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
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