Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : I was on the phone with my best friend as I was bringing in my garbage bins from the curb. Two bins, one for garbage, and one for recycle. These are the big, plastic 40-gallon bins that make it easy for the garbage crew to dump the contents into the open top of the truck.

I put the recycle bin back into my yard, and went back to go bring the garbage bin. When I pulled it back towards the curb, it hadn’t yet been emptied.

Some background: I leave my bins out next to my other neighbors’ bins, sort of small convenience for the garbage crew- they only have to make the one stop for 4 of the houses that comprise the cul-de-sac.
Rather than leave my bin there and come back later, I checked my neighbor’s bin, and saw that he had practically nothing in it. I transferred my own 4 full garbage bags into his bin, and started to haul mine back to my yard.

I narrated this to my friend as I was doing it.

He told me to stop, and told me that I was being an asshole for doing that. He said it would be better if I just go back and get the bin after it is emptied, like everyone else.

A bit more background: I live in a HOA neighborhood, where part of the dues we pay goes towards garbage removal. Other than the HOA dues, or if you want large pick-up on day that isn’t already designated for large pick up (they do this twice per year), we do not pay for garbage removal. Even if we did, my neighbor’s one big bin wasn’t even 1 quarter of the way full, as we have weekly pickup, and my bags filled his to about 3 quarters full.

I relayed this information to my friend, and he still said, “Call it what you want, but you’re still an asshole.”

My issue is that my friend was so adamant that I was an asshole, and in fact ended the call very abruptly as soon as I refused to do what he must have felt was the right thing. I later talked to my wife about it, and she said she didn’t see it. Thinking back on it, we came up with the idea that, had the garbage not been picked up that day, my neighbor would be inconvenienced the extra trash in his bin that I put there. It was a moot point, however, since the garbage bins were picked up later. I saw the truck pass on my doorbell video when the motion alert came up (big trucks always trigger the motion alert).

I intend to call my friend back and chat it out with him, but this is pretty late for him, and it’s on my mind, so I figured I would ask and get some perspective.

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TL; DR: My friend thinks I am an asshole for putting my garbage in my neighbor’s nearly-empty bin so that I didn’t have to go back and get the bin after it was collected later on that day.

What do you think, AITA’ers? Am I an asshole for putting my garbage bags in my neighbors garbage bin?