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Why has someone posted mens underpants through my letter box

36 replies

SpongeBobYFonts · 13/10/2020 15:20

NC for this one.

Arrived home after a couple of days away, struggled to get in the door with bags and realised something was getting stuck under the door. Eventually managed to get in and found a pair of grey mens XL underpants had been stuffed through the letterbox.

I am not a man. No men live here. The underpants are not new, were not packaged, but luckily seem to be clean.

Can anyone help solve this mystery please? All my friends just keep laughing.

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CatherinedeBourgh · 13/10/2020 15:21

😂😂😂😂

TooTrueToBeGood · 13/10/2020 15:25

Maybe it's the pensioner equivalent of a dick pic. Do you have any elderly male neighbours who have taken a shine to you?

I can't believe though that you inspected them closely enough to ascertain they are clean. I'd have picked them up with a very long stick and lobbed them straight in the bin.

Therollockingrogue · 13/10/2020 15:31

Perhaps they blew off a washing line, and a very British neighbour assumed they were from your house and discreetly posted them through your door?

Itsonlymakebelieve · 13/10/2020 15:34

Neighbour having an affair and OW putting incriminating pants through the door hoping to tip off the wife/partner, but getting the door wrong?

perfumeistooexpensive · 13/10/2020 15:35

I know someone who does this. Any woman that she thinks has been having an affair with her DH gets this treat. Her DH isn't having an affair. He's a good friend of ours and would tell us if he had. He's embarrassed at the number of his underpants that have been delivered around town. Poor man is only trying to earn a living and some of his customers are female.

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SpongeBobYFonts · 13/10/2020 15:36

I picked them up thinking that they were my daughters shorts and then quickly realised that they were not. I haven't done a full Inspection! But they don't seem dirty. They are now in a tied up bag in the bin. Hands washed and sanitised x 10.

I hadn't considered that this might be some sort of OAP dick pic type scenario, but now I have and somehow I feel worse. So thank you for that 😁

I guess they could be from a washing line. I don't have one personally tho so I'm not sure how that fits.

So weird, of all the things to come home to.

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LadyCatStark · 13/10/2020 15:37

@perfumeistooexpensive that’s so weird!

I think someone must believe they belong to a ‘gentleman friend’. 😂

JuliaJohnston · 13/10/2020 15:37

@perfumeistooexpensive

I know someone who does this. Any woman that she thinks has been having an affair with her DH gets this treat. Her DH isn't having an affair. He's a good friend of ours and would tell us if he had. He's embarrassed at the number of his underpants that have been delivered around town. Poor man is only trying to earn a living and some of his customers are female.
She needs some sort of intervention, surely? Shock
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SpongeBobYFonts · 13/10/2020 15:38

Perfumeistooexpensive - this is the type of thing that is running through my head! Is this a sign that I should recognise, is someone trying (very oddly) to send me a message?! Worst thing is I've been with my Gf for over 2 years which somehow makes it even more bizarre

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perfumeistooexpensive · 13/10/2020 15:40

@JuliaJohnston She does. She has many problems, but her poor DH and her DM can't get anywhere with getting her help. She doesn't think she's in the wrong.

perfumeistooexpensive · 13/10/2020 15:42

@SpongeBobYFonts It's either the washing line theory or the perceived to be OW. Lol.

Smallsteps88 · 13/10/2020 15:45

Ewwwwww!

BarbaraofSeville · 13/10/2020 15:48

Mistaken identity/wrong house?

Someone thinks a man who lives at your address has left his undercrackers at their house/in his wife's car etc and is returning them and making a point. Or an OW who has found out that her partner is already in a relationship with someone who lives at your house.

Mistakes happen. I was once woken in the middle of the night by a histerical and angry woman banging on my door because she was convinced her DH was in our house and in bed with me. She was demanding to be let in, which wasn't happening.

DP was away so I was home alone and certainly not accompanied by her DH or anyone else's. Was quite frightening and she only left when I said that I would call the police if she didn't go.

Or perhaps someone is trying to show you the delights of male underpants if you were to be in a relationship with a man and not a woman?

StarlightLady · 13/10/2020 15:57

Probably a drunks idea of a joke.

1forAll74 · 13/10/2020 16:00

That's quite funny, but a mystery non the less..especially as it was a letter box delivery. Some cats if you have one, bring items of clothing in through the cat flap at times, I suspect they jump up to washing lines and snatch them off.

If my late Mum found any bits of rags of a handy size, she would keep them to use as dusters ha ha.

kursaalflyer · 13/10/2020 16:03

I'm wondering if it's an invitation to a swinger group? E.g. If you hang them in your window they know you're interested Grin

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SpongeBobYFonts · 13/10/2020 16:11

BarbaraofSeville I bet that was terrifying

No cats so deffo not that. May be that somoene is trying to turn me back to men. Although you would think they would choose a better pair to try and convince me :)

I am not hanging them in the window! 🙈

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TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 13/10/2020 16:20

That'll be the Pant Fairy 🧚🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️

Frappuccinofan · 13/10/2020 16:22

You should definitely get some cameras installed. You never know if they’ll come back. It could be a one off joke, or it could turn nasty.

BigBadVoodooHat · 13/10/2020 16:22

@SpongeBobYFonts

NC for this one.

Arrived home after a couple of days away, struggled to get in the door with bags and realised something was getting stuck under the door. Eventually managed to get in and found a pair of grey mens XL underpants had been stuffed through the letterbox.

I am not a man. No men live here. The underpants are not new, were not packaged, but luckily seem to be clean.

Can anyone help solve this mystery please? All my friends just keep laughing.

I swear I've read a thread on here before saying the same thing. Maybe it's a weird 'dare' that re-emerges every now and then? Confused
Staffy1 · 13/10/2020 16:32

Perhaps they blew off someone's line/were thrown/carried into your garden by an animal and a nosy neighbour who thought you were letting the neighbourhood down decided to post them in your letterbox. Or the wife mentioned up-thread thinks you are at it with her husband.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 13/10/2020 16:32

... or it could be a ruse, so that later on someone will call round and ask
'Have you seen my underpants anywhere ?'

Could happen Wink

Staffy1 · 13/10/2020 16:39

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles and @TooTrueToBeGood, your posts really made me laugh Grin

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 13/10/2020 16:44

Maybe the postie found them outside & put them through to be 'helpful'.

2bazookas · 13/10/2020 16:50

You have an admirer who has decided to move in with you by stealth. This week he's sending over his underwear. Next week, he'll leave his shirts and gym kit. Week three, his slippers and pipe.