A brick in the box

The weather has been a bit strange to say the least this week and it has been unseasonably warm for early November. In fact I have only turned on a couple of heaters and they are on low at the moment. We did have a couple of quite cold mornings a week ago and on Monday last week I even wore my gloves when I went out. I have also noticed that during the last week there have been some quite heavy leaf falls from the trees and their colours are now changing rapidly too.
This week we have had quite a lot of sunny weather but now we have some Atlantic weather fronts which are moving across the country in waves and one of the features of these is the wind which can be quite strong and very gusty at times.
That is why I was woken at 1:15am this morning with a loud crash and in my state of half wakefulness I realised that it was probably my waste food container heading off down the street, probably following the large black re-cycling box as both had been emptied yesterday. There was no way that I was going out at that time to retrieve them and after all, even if they were in the middle of the road I didn't think that there would be that much traffic anyway.
Eventually I managed to doze off again, I had turned on the radio and the American election results were on so that sent me off to sleep! At 5am I woke again and at least the gusty winds had died down but I still could not go back to sleep so at 6am I decided that I would make a cup of tea. While I was at it, I thought I might as well put some clothes on and go out while there was no-one about to find my food bin and re-cycling box.
So there I was with no make-up and very hastily dressed, out wandering down the road at 6am looking for the box. As it turned out it was only the food waste box that had taken off and I found it in the middle of the road about thirty yards away so I picked it up and brought it home. If any cars had come along the road, they had probably driven around it and although it has my house number on it, no-one would bother to bring it back. I couldn't understand how the wind had extricated it from the big black box which I stand on it's end and then put the food waste box inside and anyway, why is it only mine that gets blown down the road?
The forecast is for more gusty and strong winds tonight so I have put a brick into a plastic bag and put it in the food waste box so hopefully it won't disappear tonight and I will get a good night's sleep. I must remember to remove the brick before the waste collection next week!