I've just come out into my garden and found ...

[BrianWankum]

... a pair of pants 2/3 of the way down the path. (Photo attached, once approved.)

Full coverage, women's.

On first inspection they look clean so I'm hoping they came from next door's washing line.

Do I chuck them back over the wall? Throw them away? Something else?

That's what you get if you leave your knickers on the line overnight to get darked on.

We had a period of odd shoes and slippers turning up in the middle of the garden. It was foxes.

I’d assume washing line and chuck them back over. We’ve had shoes in the garden before like @ChipKing says - we all know about the foxes and their habits now and sometimes you can see odd shoes being slung back over the correct fence with a ‘thanks! in return! 😂

Those are mine 😱😳

😂😂😂

Why has nobody said, evidence of DH affair? I thought this was mumsnet.

Foxes have brought many odd things into my back garden & left them for me, they seem to like clothing gloves shoes cuddly toys, I back onto a wooded area of a school playground, anything with human scent seems to attract them.

LTB

Or that her husband is a secret cross dresser...

They don’t look too special ??
bin them - might have thrush

My mum would've kept them for a duster. Dad kept his old Ys for the garage, she’d have to grab what she could get

based on previous mumsnet threads, the spiders will have had them

I'm divorced so didn't think about an affair or possible crossdressing, but I'm happy to blame the pants on XH, the front of him leaving them here in my garden for the spiders!

They may have thrush indeed, I wasn't planning on actually wearing them though so I think I'm safe 😁

Trouble is, if you chuck them into your neighbours garden and they aren't hers...🤔

Where on earth did that ‘darked on’ thing come from, anyway?!

God knows but it's not funny.

Just knock on and ask if they're next doors.

The plumber put them there!

When someone asked if it was ok to leave washing outside on the line overnight. The consensus was no because it getting "darked on" was bad and spiders might rub their willies against the clothes when no-one could see them

DON'T THROW THEM OVER THE WALL!
If it turns out they are not from your neighbour's washing line you (or your DH) will for evermore be known as the knicker chuckers.
I wouldn't be surprised if knicker chucking was a fetish all of its own, with pages and pages and pages devoted to it on the dark web.

There are lots of unfunny sayings and in-jokes on MN. But that’s not one of them. It’s genuinely amusing, both as an idea and as strangled language.

I don’t have thrush but I have a blue footed booby. Does that count?

Hope it’s not itchy!

I too think “darked on” is funny.

And I wouldn’t have been so blatant as just to wang them into next door's garden, I was planning to just casually, possibly artistically, drape them over the top of the brickwork. However, I went back indoors to get an implement to pick them up with, and by the time I came back, one of my neighbours was out hanging out some washing. I didn’t want to brandish them at her like an improvised “l surrender!” white flag, so I binned them.

I thought you were going to say you'd found Will, thinking in your garden

Yes it is. It's very funny. Even DH and DS think it's funny, and it's now been absorbed into the Macoute family humour lexicon!