Looking after neighbours suitcase

NIBW - Neighbour is being weird!

l certainly wouldn’t agree to this without an explanation. Aside from that, l like everything ship shape at home. I travel a lot for work, but l wouldn’t keep my own luggage in the living room, let alone someone else’s.

What has @Yetone's husband done to deserve such damnation?

I think you are definitely correct.

You're FBI aren't you?

I’m 69 and feel it’s a bit ageist to assume that a 70 year old woman can’t be a drug dealer or be capable of taking three large suitcases on holiday with her.

This thread has classics written all over it..

Can’t you see this makes no sense though? There’s a difference between being neighbourly and participating in an utterly batshit situation.

She is 70yo, yet planning to drag 3 large suitcases around on a holiday? Irrespective, why can’t they be in her lounge room, or indeed another area in her house? Makes no sense.

I consider myself neighbourly, but if a neighbour asked me this, instead of going ‘yeah, sure’, I would say ‘I just don’t understand, can you step me through why you feel they need to be with me’, and I’d take it from there.

Grins

Im 71 and your life dosnt end when you reach retirement age. If I had enough clothes and was ultra glam I would take 3 suitcases on holiday, or I could be running away at last from an abusive partner. But it is a bit weird asking you to look after them til she goes. Don't know why your hubby and you have had a furious row over it though, unless they are blocking the telly or he keeps bumping his knee on them. I would ask her, next time over the fence ( or maybe she is a fence!), why the need to hide them in your living room it is a bit weird at any age.

I would think it would be quite annoying for you having three suitcases in your living room. Unless the rooms huge won’t they get in the way?

I mean it’s a very weird thing to ask without an explanation

Yes, I can see this being one explanation.

This!!

And place marking as I would love to hear the explanation from your nutty neighbour!

Maybe your neighbour has a rebellious streak, If flying, and the check in staff ask " Have you packed these yourself and have they been with you at all times", the neighbour will politely reply "yes", then walk off with a skip in their step.

:-)

That makes sense.

It is maybe a bit like buying an expensive new TV and putting the packing box beside someone else's bin :-)

This is bonkers! Also, why the living room specifically? What would happen if they were stored in the hall or kitchen?

It’ll be this I wager! ^

Sure you should be helping, this … just isn’t usually any kind of help anyone needs?

90% likely it's an innocent but batshit reason eg if she didn't want her packed cases cluttering up her house why didn't she just leave packing until the hours/days before her trip?

Plus I reserve a special place in hell for people who like to free themselves of inconveniences by foisting them onto other people.

Then there's the small possibility that she's planning a covert leaving of her DH so obviously he can't see the cases.

In the small but possible likelihood that she's a criminal and it's a cover story so that's good enough reason to say no. Plus she's not going to be able to answer positively when asked if anyone could have interfered with her bags so will either have to lie or tell them they were in your possession and then they'd probably want to thoroughly search them at the airport.

Maybe go with the 'planning to leave her DH' angle and go in all concerned and whether she is OK. Then if it's not that you can safely push back and say you've changed your mind, perhaps remember that you were planning on painting your living room and can't store them because they'll be on your way.

Agree slightly odd request . Sorry that it meant a row with your husband.

The bit I am most intrigued about is why she specified for you to keep it in your living room? I appreciate that a lot of houses do have limited room / storage downstairs and in from the front door.

I am forever putting my phone down somewhere and not being able to find it again - but even I would find it impossible to lose 3 suitcases . …
For whatever reason, she may be feeling stressed about the departure / perhaps forgetting something so it is kind of you to agree to her request .

I'm in the neighbour's 'age range'. For many in my generation there was a shame in being in an abused wife. We would wonder why, what were we doing/not doing that made our spouse's abuse us. So it may very well be that she's ashamed to say anything. Or ashamed to admit she's put up with it for so many years. Or maybe a fear that she'll be told 'We don't want to get involved".

And it may be that the neighbour's husband doesn't have any kind of acquaintanceship with OP and her husband, where the wife does. It doesn't sound like there's a close friendship, just a 'neighbourly relationship' so she is pretty sure they won't speak to him.

I might consider having 1 of 3 if I could choose which one.

Hate to break it to you, OP. Since he retired, Bob has been doing her nut in, and it’s him in the suitcases.
Head in the vanity case, torso in the medium, legs in the large Samsonite.

Your husband and most on this thread don't understand why you need to keep them in your living room...

If I came home to find my neighbours luggage in our living room it would be returned to them PDQ whether DH said it was OK or not.

Your husband is a twat.

People like me who overpack no matter how hard we try not to to.