to wonder who the pink pants on my sofa belong to? They are not mine.

[YunoWhatYouDidLastSummer]

They either belong to the babysitter or my husband.

I wouldn't have thought of them being his, except they appeared near a pile of things he is taking on a work trip tomorrow.

I hope they are not my babysitter's because that would mean she has been removing her knickers, rather than sitting pleasantly in my house looking after my children.

He he - maybe I should just put them away in my drawer and it will drive her mad every time she sorts laundry here to have to put HER pants away in MY drawer!

She may just take them back though instead of putting them away!

Your baby sitter has been shopping before she came to you and was reviewing her purchases on your sofa?

or

She's on her way to her boyfriends after baby sitting and was rummaging in her bag for something, out slipped knickers.

See perfectly reasponable explanations.

Just give them back to her. She'll either say they aren't hers (DH is in the hot soup at this point) or she blush take them and be embarrased for ever.

Oh you haven't got a dog, have you? I once stayed with my uncle and aunt and her dog rummaged through my unzipped bag and stole my knickers. my Aunt found them under the dining table .

so no conclusion??

Not yet. She isn't coming in until later.

Just had a very nervous phone call from dh.

Was initially suspicious of his stuttering, but on reflection he had just recieved an email from his wife asking if he knew where the pink lace thong on the sofa came from. Enough to make the staunchest of men wary I think.

what did he say?

Mystery solved.

A very boring and plausible explanation.

Shall I make up something more salacious than the truth? I'd hate you to have been on tenterhooks all this time only to be let down by an anticlimax.

Yes please, any solution needs to involve cross dressing and dubious internet use (other than MN!!)

Wot no cross dressing, sofa shagging frenzy???

Well, come on then!!!! Whose were they? How did they get there?
Are you needing a new babysitter? Or husband?

No! OK can you incorporate the biring answer into the exotic one? Like.... 'well, as it turns out they were NOT simply spare pants in her handbag, but were from the Ann Sumners party she was holding in my lounge...' or something,

Broring, Summers*

OMG BORING

ome on Yuno [impatient]

Right.

Here's what happened.

My husband signed us up to be on a reality tv show. Basically, there have been 12 celebrities and a camera crew living in my house for the past 6 weeks. If dh managed to pull it off without me or the kids noticing then we would win a small island in the Channel Tunnel complete with hermitage and grazing rights.

Apparently there have been some close calls. Every time I walk into a room they all hide behind the curtains or under the side tables.

Last night two of the celebs were getting steamy on the sofa while dh and I were out and the bs was ironing upstairs. What they hadn't counted on was my bs arranging to have her own steamy sesh with her boyfriend who is a pizza delivery boy. The doorbell rang. The celebs answered thinking it was pizza for the camera crew. The bs looked out of the window and saw it was her bf so came flying downstairs andf CAUGHT two naked celebrities in my sitting room.

She wasn't sure whether her loyalties lay with dh and the possible prize, or me and her job of looking after the children, so she left the sleb panties on the sofa as a signal to me that something odd was going on.

And that type of babysitter and cleaner is the one that you have to hang on to

Heh, and the real reason?

LOL. you have a VIVID imagination!

right - so what really happened then?

[impressed] and now the boring version please!

I particularly like this detail
'a small island in the Channel Tunnel complete with hermitage and grazing rights.'

PMSL at a small island in the Channel Tunnel.

And the real story is? come on it may be boring but I'm sure I'm not the only one that's curious...?

However did like the idea of you not noticing camera crew and celebs for 6 weeks as the were hiding behind the curtains :)

marking my place in the hope you might tell us why they were really there?!