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?

Very wise OP - not just spider willies you need to worry about - also ladybirds etc

How odd to not just ask 🤷‍♀️

It's really not funny. It was probably mildly amusing on the original thread (which I remember) but people say it every single time anybody mentions pegging washing on the line and it's become tedious and dull. See also penis beakers and pom bears. Never funny but leapt on in a way which was irritating.

Sorry to derail OP but I need answers!! Have I been misunderstanding for the last decade of my mumsnet life?!! I always thought that when people refer to washing being darked on meant that spiders rub their willy on them?! Are ‘being darked on ‘ and ‘spider willy rubbing’ two separate things?!!! 😮😮😮

I thought the dark was just the dark. All sorts of horrors come out of the shadows ...
The horny spiders (and ladybirds!) come out in the daytime as well I fear.

Talk to a neighbour about their undergarments?!?!!! Ahem. No. I'm English.

I agree that over-use of MN phrases gets tiresome. But I still like ‘darked on’. It makes me smile.

What’s really fucking irritating on here is the D thing: DH, DS, Ddog etc etc. I’ve never used these.

I once had to go next door on a windy day and ask for a pair of my knickers back! They were nicer than those though 😀.

l don’t think people are taking the issue of washing getting darked on seriously enough, this is not a lighthearted matter.

Aside from that OP, l think you did the right thing in binning them.

😂

First place my mind went, too 😂 Casually reclined on the sun lounger, knitting OP some lentil socks, gracing the birds with his painfully vague philosophies…

It’ll be a fox.
Just bin.

😂😂😂😂😂 sorry @RockyRogue1001 I missed your brilliant comment earlier!

I'm in his target area, maybe he will pitch up one day 😁

MNHQ have deleted it.

Gutted 💔

These comments are all that remain. 🥀

Deleted what?

If you leave washing out in the rain it gets rained on; leave it out in the dark it gets darked on.

Worse than that there are monsters in the dark too. They have pet spiders.

Look no further than your (or someone else's) cat.

Nope! It’s definitely monsters.

The ‘darked on’ really was very funny. But perhaps you had to be there. It just grew as these things sometimes do, and many many women around the country grin quietly to themselves as they get their washing in- or don’t!

You clearly don't think it's funny - that's fine. That is not the same thing as it not being funny.

Does your neighbour look like they wear big girls pants?

Wondering if it might be Upton?

Has someone been having sex in your bush? 😂😂😂

Some of my neighbours are tiny ancient Nepalese women who give me herbs (they have a thriving vegetable garden), so yes for sure.