Looking after neighbours suitcase

Seriously weird
as is taking 3 suitcases. I am much younger and pretty fit and don’t quite get how I could negotiate three cases by myself. Or need that much stuff for a holiday

Would never do this as I would go to worst case scenario that she is smuggling and if caught would involve me and my family. It is a pretty odd request.

She could tell you but then she would have to kill you!
I'm 78 and I don't even own three suitcases! Does she have good kitchen knives and a circular saw? Have you seen her partner lately? Is she still in her house or has she done a moonlight, leaving you to explain the evidence? I really must stop reading whodunits!

I think she just doesn’t want them in the way at her house; so it’s ok for them to be in your way. What time is she going to the airport? Our flights are always at silly o’clock in the morning-is she going to need to wake you up?

OK, have read a little bit of this mad thread.

I might be the odd one out here, but surely the neighbour would GIVE A REASON why she wanted to store her bags in your house. Yes or No?

"Hi Joan, wonder if you'd mind putting my suitcases in yours overnight until the taxi comes, I wouldn't ask, only I ........... (reason). Thanks if you can Joan it would help me out a lot."

And yes I would store neighbour's stuff like that once I knew why the hell they needed to do it!

How bloody ridiculous.

Hurry up and ask. I need to know

Even if it is all innocent OP your DH has clearly stated he doesn’t want the suitcases in his home - so you have to respect that. It’s not fair on him to clutter up his living space with big cases (unless there is a very, very good reason - which it doesn’t sound like there is one so far)

OP's not coming back ☹️

and evidently neither is the neighbour, because she's either done a runner or has been arrested or this was created for entertainment purposes. Either way, it was fun to speculate - hopefully it was all innocent/ misunderstanding.

Do you think she might be leaving her husband?

Why is her age relevant? It's a nonsensical request. I'm with your husband.

I would be worried for her mental health if she didn't give a reason. It's really difficult to manage three suitcases as one person while traveling and my first thought these are things she wants loved ones to have once she's not around.

Either way I would be asking for a reason.

That's exactly what a drug smuggling husband killer would say.

She might not be going on a plane - it could be a UK coach tour that arranges pick up from your home. Or she could be going with two friends who live nearby and the local coach company asked if they could pick them all up from one house to reduce the faffing time before getting underway... so two of the cases are not hers, and she's suddenly realised that they all take up a lot of room in her own living room, but somebody else's cluttered living room doesn't matter to her personally?!

Apparently a nice lady came over and started chatting to her and then asked her to mind the case for a bit (it was a carry on).

Was the nice lady Hattie Jacques or Barbara Windsor?

Took me a minute but that’s brilliant. 😀

So she thinks the taxi driver will let it be known that she’s on holiday?

she wants to tell the taxi driver she is actually RETURNING home and that she was staying with us, I have agreed that me and my husband (I've not told him yet) will wave her off from our house.

Do you often agree to weird things like this without involving him? It would grate on me really quickly. I think you're being unreasonable.

If this was me
Neighbour- Please could you look after my 3 suitcases?
Me-Why? Laughs
Neighbour- tells me
Me-Decides whether its a good enough reason to agree.

So no one’s going to see her leave with 3 when she takes them next door? 😆

@ShakyBake- she wouldn’t be the first sweet little 70 year old to smuggle drugs.

That's not a simple explanation, that's extreme paranoia!

So why do you need to have the cases for the next few days? Why not just bring them to your house 10 minutes before the taxi is due?

Id be annoyed if I was your husband...you have disregarded his feelings for something that didn't need to be done so far in advance, you could have agreed to neighbour bringing them round the morning she goes as a compromise

This is what 99.9% of people who get on with their neighbours would do.

Blindly agreeing to requests because ‘neighbour’ is totally bizarre, bordering on incredibly naive and foolish.

I can't believe all of the fanciful and, frankly, utterly ridiculous scenarios that people are dreaming up... when it's perfectly obvious and straightforward to anybody who is familiar with the classic conundrum about the man who has to get a fox, a chicken and a bag of grain safely across the river in his rowing boat.

She's going on holiday to a small island nation where her DGD lives on a combined coach/ferry journey. Her DGD is crazy-mad about Sugar Puffs, but sadly you simply can't buy them where she lives. The suitcases are therefore stuffed to the gills with Sugar Puffs that the neighbour has bought from her local supermarket, clearing their shelves completely - emptied out and loose of their boxes, as you can cram far more of them in that way.

The problem is that she has a pet dog who is also a big fan of Sugar Puffs. He is also going on the holiday with her, to visit the family who live there, as they love him and he loves them. Naturally, as a dog, his sense of smell is top-drawer - so he can instantly smell the Sugar Puffs through the fabric of the cases, and is a strong and determined mutt, so he would easily be able to tear his way into them overnight, if they were in their own living room, and snaffle the lot well before dawn.

Therefore, the dog and the Sugar Puffs can never be left alone together - hence the cases need to stay overnight in next door's living room, which the dog cannot access. This part is key.

It's only by making sure that the cases go safely into the separate luggage hold of the coach, whilst she watches her dog like a hawk and takes him with her into the passenger seating area, that the Sugar Puffs will survive the journey intact.

Of course, when they arrive there, her DGD is going to be so excited to see both the beloved dog and the Sugar Puffs that she will want to scoff every last Sugar Puff within the hour, and maybe even share them with the dog in one massive Sugar-Puff-eating frenzy - which is clearly not a great idea for the health of either of them... but that's a whole new conundrum to be resolved separately, and one which OP can sadly have no logistical part in facilitating.