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Anonymous valentines card from a woman in my street

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TheReaderIs · 11/02/2026 23:47

I’ve just received an anonymous valentines card from a woman in my street. The card had a stamp on it and it said “The woman within” and my address! The card mentions her seeing me walking to my bus and how she waits for her husband and kids to go out and…well! She says she’s bisexual and she goes into detail about what she wants to do to me…omg!

The card was posted first class, why pay for a stamp lol. Could this be a hoax? It was quite specific about seeing me walking to my bus.

I’m separated from my ex - could it be him or his family playing a prank? Or do I have a randy, bisexual neighbour??

I dunno what to think! 🙈

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DeathStare · 12/02/2026 01:47

Am I the only person who finds this really disturbing? If the card-writer had said they were a man, I suspect there would have been lots of posts saying to notify the police. I don't think that's any different because the card-writer says they are a woman, especially is that unlikely to be true.

Regardless of their sex, this is someone who has felt confident enough to initiate completely unsuggested sexual contact with you with no way of knowing whether you would enjoy this or whether it would terrify you (and doesn't care either way), has been watching you closely enough to know both your routine and where you live, and has gone out of their way to maintain being in control (hiding their identity, not risking putting it through the door themselves).

I'd be logging it with the police

NotThisAgain1987 · 12/02/2026 01:23

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As an English speaker you understood perfectly well so I do believe it is written in English not one of the four other languages I speak. I'm happy to converse in one of those of you wish?

Do you disagree with the sentiment? Do you often send sexual cards to women you don't know?

Have the night you deserve!

Eddiestrangerthings · 12/02/2026 01:23

TheReaderIs · 12/02/2026 00:15

Yeah it was explicit. On the front it said “knob of butter” with a butter Willy lol. So weird for a woman to send another woman a card with a willy on it! If it had said - I’ve seen you walking to your bus and I want to say you are very cute/pretty that wouldn’t be so bad but it was graphic!

you could always call her bluff and say you have been thinking about x etc and see how it progresses ?

Eddiestrangerthings · 12/02/2026 01:21

Arlanymor · 11/02/2026 23:48

Why would someone in your street post a card with a stamp on it?

ring doorbells etc would show who it was, but using the postie adds mystery to it

EmeraldShamrock000 · 12/02/2026 01:08

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😳 School doesn’t start till 9am.

Francestein · 12/02/2026 01:04

Any woman would know a butter Willy would be about as useful as a chocolate teapot and a likely candidiasis infection. This was sent by a man.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 12/02/2026 01:04

A different neighbour is taking the piss.
I would ask her if she sent it.

Quickchangenow · 12/02/2026 01:02

It’s obviously a sick joke

PyongyangKipperbang · 12/02/2026 01:00

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Did you get all smug and happy when you posted that? When its very clear what the post meant and had been buggered up by auto correct?

Get a life.

Tamtim · 12/02/2026 00:56

Keep hold of it in case it escalates. People are such creeps. No one wants that.

DotNTimmy · 12/02/2026 00:55

You have the most powerful, intuitive tool that any of us have ever seen in your hand.

Take a picture, chuck it at Chat GPT and tell it to analyze the handwriting, linguistics and everything else to make a reasonable prediction of the sex of the writer. Plus any other insights it can gain.

bellysgoneandgotme · 12/02/2026 00:54

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Arlanymor · 11/02/2026 23:48

Why would someone in your street post a card with a stamp on it?

To avoid being seen putting it through the letterbox?

Mistyglade · 12/02/2026 00:49

I wish someone would send me a valentines card, prank or no prank.

Queenoftartts · 12/02/2026 00:48

Either a prank or she didn't want to be seen posting it. If it's real I would be creeped out by it. Be on the lookout when you leave the house for this love sick woman spying on you.😂😂😂

I sent my boyfriend I was seeing when I was a teenager a valentine's card with a load of sexual rhymes in. Though I wouldn't have sent it as an adult. So it might not have necessarily been a man who sent it.

AlwaysTheRenegade · 12/02/2026 00:48

What did it actually say inside? Do you know which neighbour you think it is? Was it posted, or just stamped and put through your door?
If they're serious, are you just supposed to guess who sent it?!

AuntyAngela · 12/02/2026 00:38

She's rubbish at being anonymous isn't she? On top of the fact she's not very economical.

Hopefulsalmon · 12/02/2026 00:34

to boot!

Hopefulsalmon · 12/02/2026 00:33

Definitely a man and a weirdo to boor.

NotThisAgain1987 · 12/02/2026 00:33

Or are you interested?

PyongyangKipperbang · 12/02/2026 00:31

Definitely written by a man. But who is harder to define.

Could be your ex, or ex FIL/BIL if they are bitter and hate your guts? More likely to be a man on your street though thinking he is being clever, so he gets to knock one out thinking about you getting that card.

We have a village FB group and I would post pics of it (inside and out) with "To whoever sent me this, I am not interested and will report any further contact to the police. Its clear that this was written by a man pretending to be a woman, I am not sure you wife would appreciate you sending this to me!" then let the jungle drums do their thing!

Woodfiresareamazing · 12/02/2026 00:29

TheReaderIs · 11/02/2026 23:51

Yeah that was my first thought!

Obviously the sender didn't want to risk being seen posting it through your letterbox!

Although how are you supposed to let them know if you're interested?!

I think, given your update re the picture on the card, that it was definitely from a man. I don't know how amicable your split has been, but my divorce was very acrimonious and my H became very unhinged. We had a lovely friendly group of neighbours in our cul de sac,went to the pub quiz, had street parties etc. My H used to write emails from a fake account to some of them about my dangerous man-eating tendencies, and how I shagged anything that moved.
So maybe this is your H doing the same sort of thing?

AwfullyGood · 12/02/2026 00:22

I'm not sure if this is hilarous or horrific!

I'm no help - only posting to see if you find out more. Sorry.

NotThisAgain1987 · 12/02/2026 00:19

TheReaderIs · 12/02/2026 00:15

Yeah it was explicit. On the front it said “knob of butter” with a butter Willy lol. So weird for a woman to send another woman a card with a willy on it! If it had said - I’ve seen you walking to your bus and I want to say you are very cute/pretty that wouldn’t be so bad but it was graphic!

You should write cards for all your neighbours saying pls don't sexually harras me via shit valentine's cards. Ta. Then watch the local nosey parkers explode with the gossip opportunities

TheReaderIs · 12/02/2026 00:15

NotThisAgain1987 · 12/02/2026 00:10

Women, on the whole, don't talk sexually about a person with our some form of consent. Hence why I solicited dick picks are much more of a thing than unsolicited vulva pics. Guarantee a man wrote that card.

Yeah it was explicit. On the front it said “knob of butter” with a butter Willy lol. So weird for a woman to send another woman a card with a willy on it! If it had said - I’ve seen you walking to your bus and I want to say you are very cute/pretty that wouldn’t be so bad but it was graphic!

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