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Cleaner found my toy - need to emigrate

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Alaskabound · 23/08/2024 15:53

Am I being unreasonable to go to Alaska, or would even further be more appropriate? Would have to be English speaking, but i would be sending for the DCs when the dust settles so i can’t afford Australia. Unless they go overland… Hmm.

DCs at a sleepover last night. A night alone meant the first time I could have some me time in six loooooong weeks of summer holiday. So obviously I used my rabbit thruster three times in 10 hours discerningly checked to see if my discreet adult toy was still working in case it were ever to be called upon. Unfortunately I left it on the bedside table because I was getting the last one in casually strolling out to pick the DCs up. The cleaner has been, and has placed it in a drawer. The cleaner who I know from the school playground and to whom I have never said a word other than to discuss cleaning and make small talk.

So the question is, is there an Air Alaska or should I go via American / United and change at their hubs? I will check for responses whilst packing. Thanks.

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SlippyYinzer · 29/08/2024 12:11

Hateam · 23/08/2024 16:27

Spend a few days in Prague till things blow over.

You can visit the sex toy museum. I've been there; very exciting - the whole place was buzzing.

Well played!

Grammarnut · 25/08/2024 18:20

BirthdayRainbow · 23/08/2024 15:59

The fact she moved it shows she has no class. The correct response is to leave well alone and not clean the bedside table.

No, no! She should have cleaned round it and left it where it was.

LavenderPup · 25/08/2024 16:44

Showing a new cleaner round…..forgot I’d put a vibrator in the bathroom to dry. She didn’t say a word but I wasn’t fazed and told her to avoid that one it was rubbish. She laughed and said she’s seen it all before.

Years back DH walked in on my SS pleasuring himself before school…… not sure who was more shocked lol.

Cryingatthegym · 25/08/2024 16:36

WitchyBits · 23/08/2024 16:20

This is competent outing but I used to have a port raccoon. He was a devilish little shit and used to destroy remote controls to eat the buttons and the twiddly rubber bits in game controllers. But I loved him to bits and he had free rein of the house when we were home. We had to move house and we had the entire family and loads of friends round helping us. My sisters and their partners, my parents, 4 friends and their partners. Anyway, my DH had very carefully packed and transported the tons of sex toys in a cardboard box, and for safe keeping he put it in the airing cupboard. We were all down stairs eating a take away , kids were upstairs and the raccoon was noticeably absent which was really unusual when food was about. All of a sudden my teenage daughter SCREAMS from upstairs that she's totally disgusted and with every forgive us and down shoots the raccoon with a neon pink sparkly dildo in his mouth and dragging along a tangled strap on and a set of silicon anal beads. Everybody was just 😯😯😯 and the little bastard managed to steal a chop suey roll as he was legging past with his stolen silicone haul.

Similarly, once when family were visiting when my brothers and I were late teens/early 20's and still living at home, my pet ferret proudly marched into my mum's sitting room, clutching a used condom in her mouth which she'd found in my brother's bedroom bin Envy

FeetLikeFlippers · 25/08/2024 16:33

PrincessOlga · 23/08/2024 18:23

Please don't mock the OP. Some people get off on publishing such stories on forums. I spoke to an interesting psychologist at a party (she was researching people who make "poo posts" on forums and in letters to neighbours - yes, really!) and they have deep-seated issues.

Huh? Nobody is mocking her, we’re all just having laugh about a funny situation we can all relate to. She shared the story for that very reason, not because she has “deep-seated issues”. And what in god’s name is a “poo post”? Your whole comment is very odd!

FeetLikeFlippers · 25/08/2024 16:21

Orphlids · 23/08/2024 18:21

My mother once found a collection of my toys, and actually put them into a DESK TIDY - remember the ones with several round compartments of differing heights? I don’t know why she did it. We’ve never spoken of it.

Of all the comments here, this is the one that made me guffaw so loudly it made people in the coffee shop look at me funny.

FeetLikeFlippers · 25/08/2024 16:03

redalex261 · 23/08/2024 16:15

OMFG! 😱You have made my day OP, so sad you will be facing the choice of emigrating to North Korea or murdering your cleaner and burying her under the patio!

I was on a riverside walk with a very prudish relative sister, brother-in-law and two kids age 8 & 9. Place mobbed with bathers as weather fabulous. Labrador came crashing out of the water sporting a gigantic clear jelly dildo in his jaws. One of the bouncy ones. Cue scrap between me, sis and BIL about who was going to catch dog and wrestle it off him. (agreement was hand would be in a poo bag to avoid direct contact..)
Meanwhile everyone in hysterics, kids demanding to be allowed to throw it for the dog, relative had face like a cat’s bum.

That’s brilliant, I’d have paid to watch that!

FeetLikeFlippers · 25/08/2024 15:58

Many years ago I was packing up to move house and my best friend (male) had come over to help me and he had his 18 month year old son with him. He was dozing off in his buggy so we left him in my bedroom to have a nap. Half an hour later we heard him moving around, and my friend went into my bedroom to find his DS waving around a vibrating dildo that he’d found in my bedside cabinet. That was 16 years ago and it still makes me a cringe a bit but mostly I just find it funny. I’m sure your cleaner has seen it all before and in time it will be feel less embarrassing for you and become a funny anecdote - just not “one to tell the grandchildren” though!

Cucumbersandwich75 · 25/08/2024 15:33

Mine disappeared from under the mattress (easy to get to in case of emergency) never found it and no idea which of my sibs or parents had it.

DiduAye · 25/08/2024 14:17

Grow up hold your head high and move on

JL690 · 25/08/2024 13:30

Katemax82 · 25/08/2024 10:29

One of my clients leaves her toy drawer open and doesn't seem bothered. Just act like nothing happened

Just the toy drawer, no others?

Katemax82 · 25/08/2024 10:29

One of my clients leaves her toy drawer open and doesn't seem bothered. Just act like nothing happened

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 25/08/2024 07:57

@RicherThanYew
"I've never had a sex toy discovered by anyone"
That you know of. . . .

Have a friend who kept her stash of dildos and vibrators in all shapes and sizes in a bag, at the back of her wardrobe top shelf. You needed a chair/step to reach it.

Her favourite bullet went missing for ages..
Turns out her teenage daughter had taken it kept it for herself.
Found it when cleaning, under the pillow, still not cleaned 😳.
She left it and never spoke of it. Also swiftly changed her hiding place. 😅

merrymelodies · 25/08/2024 07:53

housethatbuiltme · 23/08/2024 17:51

Could be worse.

When I went into premature labor due to my waters breaking I was rushed off to hospital and MIL decided to help by cleaning up the house so it would be ready for our return.

Upon return we found she hadn't just cleaned the puddle on the floor but she had gone through every bedside draw and carefully organized and arranged all our adult toys, condoms, lubricants etc...

Shes a very passive aggressive person, so I'm sure she was sending a judgemental message.

My mum did the exact same, except she binned mine rather than leave them out.

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 25/08/2024 07:40

FeralNun · 23/08/2024 18:33

Way funnier than the OP! 😂

Both funny, not a competition.

Alleycat1 · 25/08/2024 05:56

I used to live in Alasks. May I suggest St Matthew Island in the Bering Sea which is widely considered the most isolated.spot in the State. No road,no proper landing strip and the last I heard no town. Happy buzzing!

Vizella · 24/08/2024 23:15

YABVU because you should have invested in a good shower head instead, especially if you have good water pressure 😎

EveryOtherNameTaken · 24/08/2024 23:10

feelingalittlehorse · 23/08/2024 21:50

In a similar low point, one of my labs likes to bring people “gifts”- that’s his party trick. Normally dog toys, the occasional cushion or shoe. He just presents you with it and then sits there wagging.

Had the plumber round, and suddenly heard a voice from the kitchen “er, sorry, but your dog keeps bringing me things”.

Walked in to see plumber staring resolutely at the boiler, two used sanitary towels from the bathroom bin deposited at his feet and a very, very proud Labrador sat there. 🥴🤦‍♀️

OMG 😅😂

Mamanyt · 24/08/2024 22:25

My mother found mine...when I was FORTY YEARS OLD, and confronted me with it. For once in my life, I said "what I SHOULD have said," and replied, "Yeah, Mom. I think of it as sex with someone I can actually trust." That, at least, put an end to the conversation. Forever.

weegiemum · 24/08/2024 21:57

We were cleaning out dh's father's flat after he was diagnosed with dementia and moved into a residential home.

Dh thought that going through all the paperwork (eg his parents' divorce, fil's PhD thesis, bank stuff would be hard.

Not as hard as finding the sex toys!

Newsenmum · 24/08/2024 21:50

IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine · 24/08/2024 21:39

My friend has the best awkward vibrator story.

When she was a student, she arrived home to find her house had been burgled. She immediately called the police. A few officers turned up, one of whom interviewed her while the others started looking for evidence. When the interview was finished, she walked into her bedroom... to find a young, male officer dusting her vibrator for fingerprints.

I cry with laughter every time I think about this story.

This is so, so funny

Newsenmum · 24/08/2024 21:49

JustAnotherDadOf2 · 24/08/2024 21:08

Disagree, the fact that she moved it shows she has a wicked sense of humour, one of the guys at work walked in on his 18yr old son with his gamers VR headset on, while obviously enjoying something that was def not gaming, he he took opportunity to tidy his room and open his curtains...

One word: ew!

WalkingThroughTreacle · 24/08/2024 21:45

LittleRedYarny · 23/08/2024 16:33

May I suggest you emigrate to Dildo in Newfoundland and Labrador, (it only has a population of about 200 so very unlikely you will ever bump into anyone you know.)

I've been there and would not recommend it. There's no vibe.

browneyes77 · 24/08/2024 21:41

Alaskabound · 23/08/2024 15:53

Am I being unreasonable to go to Alaska, or would even further be more appropriate? Would have to be English speaking, but i would be sending for the DCs when the dust settles so i can’t afford Australia. Unless they go overland… Hmm.

DCs at a sleepover last night. A night alone meant the first time I could have some me time in six loooooong weeks of summer holiday. So obviously I used my rabbit thruster three times in 10 hours discerningly checked to see if my discreet adult toy was still working in case it were ever to be called upon. Unfortunately I left it on the bedside table because I was getting the last one in casually strolling out to pick the DCs up. The cleaner has been, and has placed it in a drawer. The cleaner who I know from the school playground and to whom I have never said a word other than to discuss cleaning and make small talk.

So the question is, is there an Air Alaska or should I go via American / United and change at their hubs? I will check for responses whilst packing. Thanks.

My mom came round once to tidy up for me whilst I was away (I never asked her to, she just thought she was being helpful because I used to be super messy).

Mine was under my pillow. Came back to find it all wrapped up in my pj’s carefully placed back under the pillow.

Mortified didn’t cover it.

Luckily my mom and I have a very good relationship, although that didn’t stop me from feeling like I wanted the ground to swallow me up.

I’d say a one way flight to the Antarctic is your only option 😂

IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine · 24/08/2024 21:39

My friend has the best awkward vibrator story.

When she was a student, she arrived home to find her house had been burgled. She immediately called the police. A few officers turned up, one of whom interviewed her while the others started looking for evidence. When the interview was finished, she walked into her bedroom... to find a young, male officer dusting her vibrator for fingerprints.

I cry with laughter every time I think about this story.