Every time I see a skip this program springs to mind and I cant stop Laughing. I`m 76 years young and watched this the first time round and still go into fits of laughter.
The reason this one spoke to me so much -- enough to put up the video here -- is the fact that when we built our new house our skip bin outside was CONSTANTLY filled with other people's crap. We're talking everything from dead Christmas trees, to busted mattresses, to shitty baby diapers/nappies. It was infuriating. We did have a bit of a win, though. I went through some of the rubbish and found some guys x-rays and some professional development files from his place of employment. They had had the names torn off the covers, but you could see them in negative on his x-rays and deep inside his folders of papers. Turned out that he lived a couple of suburbs away. I called him out on a local community group -- "Would [name] please come and get the crap you've dumped at [address]? It would be greatly appreciated". People them proceeded to tear him to bits in the comments -- he contacted me claiming that the stuff was "stolen" from his shed. (Because people often steal people's old paperwork and attempt to anonymise it before disposing of it).
This scene lives rent free in my head. I live in the country far away from most civilisation and even out here some sod dumbed a broken mattress in our skip when we were out shopping. Unbelievable!
Imagine Hyacinth from, "Keeping Up Appearances," living next door to Victor Meldrew from, "One Foot in the Grave!" The bickering & zany situations would be HYSTERICAL!! Also, @ 1:18, SACRED WORDS HAVE BEEN SPOKEN!
I remember this scene so well. It was by far the best scene in the entire series. I nearly shit myself when he opened the door and the heroin-den mattress popped out. ;-p
I guess they left their calling card on the car as it had its plate still on the back. Just like when someone crashes and takes off and their Number Plate is left behind.
