Looking after neighbours suitcase

Well we do have to hide cases as cats will freaky out and occaionally wee on them - but we've never yet had to hide them in another's house.

So I'm with they this is really odd ask and even odder no explination offered or asked for.

It really isn't. It's mental!

I think the neighbour may be right to be concerned about a burglary - last time I organised a funeral the funeral director advised us not to advertise it as there’d been a spate of thefts from empty homes of the bereaved…not inconceivable that a taxi driver would know the house is empty for a while with three suitcases (a cruise?) If it helped my elderly neighbour feel more secure I would do it.

In terms of fiendishly brilliant plots, such that Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and Columbo with their combined brain power could never fathom, this ranks alongside the old one of answering the door every time wearing your coat and clutching your handbag - so that, if it's somebody you want to talk to, you can say that you've only just got home and welcome them in; and if it's somebody you don't want to talk to, you can pretend that you're just on your way out to an urgent appointment and push past them!

That’s actually pretty clever!

Of course! That makes total sense now that it is explained properly.

😂😂

The explanation is so random but also quite clever - I love the idea the taxi driver must be part of a crime ring and immediately stand down his burglary operation because of the performance with the suitcases. It's exactly the sort of plan my elderly relatives would come up with.

I hope your husband comes around to seeing the humour in this quirky request.

Pretend you misunderstood and proudly tell her that you worked very hard and managed to find buyers for every single garment (and the cases too!) on Vinted - and does she want you to give her the overall £2.38 profit in cash or transfer it direct to her account?

Maybe she isn't actually going on holiday at all, but instead is planning on turning her home into a naturist retreat. She's just gone through her house ruthlessly in preparation, to purge it of all offensive (fabric-based) items?

Your neighbour isn't very orange, maybe looks a decade or more older than her true age, terrible hairstyle and quite manly looking, is she?

Are perchance the suitcases labelled 'Pooty-Poot', 'Chyner Shiner China' and 'Greenland (NB: the bigger, icy one that isn't actually called Iceland)' and with a big button-shaped bulge on the sides?

I'm still team husband, I wouldn't want them cluttering up my living room for days for such a silly reason. The morning of her trip or the evening before if a very early start would be more than adequate. She's basically got muggins next door to faciltate her freeing up her hall space all weekend and you even went round and collected them. No wonder your dh's got the raving hump.

I’m wondering how many clothes she has left at home if she has three cases packed in your living room. What is she planning to wear this week ?

I actually think that it’s a great idea.

That’s a weird request from your neighbour, why would she need you to be keeping a case for her in your house? I’m with your DH on this one.

That's my cover blown!

Just imagining you waving her off and you’re husbands face looking like thunder😂

Why does your husband have to wave her off as well as you? I'm pretty sure that it will piss him off and he will probably refuse.

I was about to say this too. It sounds very dodgy to me.

This is the perfect solution. You are obviously very intelligent and/or are working with the security services who know exactly how to do these things. 😊

@BrezhnevsLuxuriantEyebrows 😊 Brilliant, I think I'd better think it out again!

But what if the taxi driver catches sight of 'Saucy Susie', decides that she's very much 'his type' - and then comes back after dropping off the neighbour, to try his luck with her?

Then, after banging for 20 minutes (on the door, obviously...), he can see her right there in the window, wide-eyed, looking right at him when he stands there, but not answering the door... so he calls an ambulance, fearing that she's had a stroke?

So the neighbour returns from her holiday to find that, not only has she had somebody break into her house anyway after all of her fear-driven precautions (albeit the paramedics rather than a burglar), but she's been featured on the front of the local paper in her absence, under the headline 'Filthy OAP in steamy sex fetish scandal' - and everybody calls her Pervy Pam for the rest of her days.

All things considered, she would probably have preferred somebody to just come and take her telly, claim on the insurance and then get on with her life with her reputation unbesmirched.

If that's her concern you could just go to her house 10 mins before she leaves, and wave her off from there so the house doesn't look empty. Not sure why your DH needs to be involved.

This isn't a "very simple explanation." Why/how would anyone pack 3 entire suitcases, and not need a single thing from them for a few days? Do you know where she's going and how she's getting there? Coaches have a limit on luggage space. Most airlines only allow 2 checked pieces at most, many only 1, and it's costly to pay for more, not to mention weight limits. It's nuts that you haven't thought why she can't just bring them round just before she leaves. And of course she has some kind of explanation for you, but it doesn't make it true!