Looking after neighbours suitcase

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

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?

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.

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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.

This thread has classics written all over it..

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.

I think you are definitely correct.

You're FBI aren't you?

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

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.

Obviously this is weird and you are so lacking in curiosity it’s bizarre OP! Why would anyone need to do this for any reasonable reason? Is she married, because the only possible reason I (and others in here) can think of is that she’s leaving her husband and doesn’t want him to see her packed cases. In which case I’d help her…but your guilelessness is concerning! 🤦‍♀️

What a strange request?! I cannot believe you didn’t ask why?! Just ask her how come she can’t keep the suitcases at her house? Does it mean they’ll wake you up super early to get them on their way to the airport? I’d say no because that’s weird! Unless it’s a suprise for her husband?!

Why would it be helping? So she doesn't have them cluttering up her house but you do?

But they have to leave their house with the cases to get to the OPs house. So a burglar could see them leaving with cases then? 🤷‍♀️

op, your neighbour is batshit.

The FBI wishes I was FBI.

Let me know if you want me to clear up any other mysteries.

Its a weird request. Supposing its got drugs in it?

I’d think she’s escaping from abuse.

Don’t do it! It’s clearly dodgy.

This is one of the most fascinating posts in a long while. We put out bins and take in parcels for our neighbours. I have never heard of anyone being asked to store packed suitcases pre holiday!

That is the most bizarre request I’ve ever heard! And it be a refusal from me…….why should you have her suitcases cluttering up your house? As pp stated there might be something illegal going on, she might be hiding evidence and what if she has an infestation of bedbugs?……..you can bet they’ll be in the cases and the contents!

I think it'll be something quite mundane like the neighbour has cream carpets and doesn't want suitcases on it, but op has tiled/wood floors and neighbour feels entitled to leave them there.

I am agreeing with everyone on this thread though, that it is bonkers to say yes without asking why. If I were op's husband I would also be very frustrated with her.

The problem with many "people pleasers" is that they're willing to cause discomfort to people within the family, in order to be "helpful" to people outside the family. It's a kind of selfishness really, because you're motivated by praise and thanks.

This thread is shaping up very nicely and becoming quite intriguing. Although I do confess that I am currently reading one of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club books, which is possibly skewing my opinion a little. I'm sure Richard could take the idea of the 'harmless 70 year old woman wirh three suitcases' and give it a run for its money.

The only reason I could understand this request would be if she lives in the upstairs flat and you in the downstairs and she doesn't want to be banging suitcases downstairs early in the morning with a taxi waiting outside.
More context around the request is needed to know if you've been unreasonable to accept it

I predict that OP will get a message that her neighbour's 'friend' will be round to pick up the cases, and a well built man of few words & wearing dark glasses will soon be at her door.

i think she is leaving her husband .