in drying my underwear in my back garden?

[LifeIsButtercream]

The sun finally came out! So I stuck some washing out on the rotary drier to dry, including some plain black Evans M&S knickers (nothing racy!)

Later a note popped through the door (didn't see who left it) and it read:

"Please do not dry underwear in the garden, it's not very nice to have to look at"

I was a bit

To clarify, my garden is has 6ft fences, and to see into it someone would have to be looking out of the top back windows of their house, and then at an angle (hard to explain, but basically it's not in view from other gardens - unless they are climbing the fence - or in view from anyone's lounge/downstairs rooms).

And I try to be discrete! I put pants on the 'inner' rows of the drier so they aren't spinning their crusty gussets around on the outside in full view of anyone who might be looking, and I usually put them sandwiched between other items.

AIBU?

Dear lord I cannot believe people worry about this. Ignore, or better still get some newspaper, cut out the letters of O O H M A T R O N ! and peg them up on the line with your pants.

how bizarre.....i think i'd be scouring charity shops for the strangest looking things to hang out, just to wind them up

but seriously, you're not going to take any notice of that note, are you?

Thanks for posting this OP, made me laugh out loud. Please do update with further tales of crazy neighbours. What are you going to do? Can you work out which of them it is who put the note there?

Where I live, we overlook the path to the train station (classy, eh?), and consequently anyone who commutes from here to nearby London sees my knicks fluttering merrily the breeze. Never noticed anyone gasping in horror yet, but I'll keep an eye out now I know.

Just a thought.....

I'm assuming that you were hanging up wet underwear because they had just been washed...???

Maybe OP was hanging out just wet dirty underwear

In this case YABU ha ha ha

How bizarre.

Maybe your neighbours go commando.

We could start a Mumsnet appeal! Send your raciest perviest undies to LifeisButtercream and she can hang them on her line. Or she could erect a special pervy pants line.

oooh the possibilities!

haha! I love Elephants' suggestion. Or maybe you could spell out: 'Hello knicker spy'.

wish i'd have thought of that, i can imagine there faces haha

I'd write "bite me" in large capitals on a sheet of A4, and hang it on the line next to your pants.

People are odd. I tend to do what you do, which is put pants on the inner lines but that's as far as it goes.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

That is all.

Am in fits of giggles now !!!!!

I wonder whether a mooncup could be an interesting addition to the drying line (along with the crotchless pans and peepo bras) ooh or maybe a femidon ;-)

Mwah ha ha .........

Crotchless pants - not pans, oops!

Start airing your rampant rabbits on the decking.

I would leaflet all surrounding houses

"Dear Neighbours,

It seems, unforunately, that someone with a prurient and disturbing interest in strangers' underwear has been present in our neighbourhood recently. I fear, though it pains me to say it, that they may even be a resident.

May I suggest that you all exercise vigilance, and share information on anyone displaying the following signs:

Use of binoculars and periscopes in upstairs windows.
Twitching of net curtains.
Going commando.
Catsbum mouth.
Steam and mould on windows from indoor drying of laundry.
Frequent collection of prescriptions for genital unguents arising from inadequately aired gussets (see above).

I'm sure you all agree that this person needs our help and that it is our duty as a community to offer them our help before it becomes a police matter.

Yours,
LifeIsButtercream:

How strange...........the guilty person would have heart failure next to me, my elderly neigbour always has yesterday's big pants and Y fronts flying high for all residents to see.............my 3 year old ds once said, look mummy.....bigger, bigger pants..

Not only do I currently have pants on my line but washable sanitary towels too

Dp calls them 'menstrual bunting'.

no you can't be serious? put some really racy thongs on the line, that will get em talking how rude

@ pregolalola

Your neighbours are nuts. Of course you should hang your wash on the line and that includes nickers and bras. Ignore them.

Love Nooby's idea :o I;m sure everyone has at least a couple of things at the bottom of thier undie drawers that would love to see the light of day again.

They're mental. They need to get a life. Agree with all those who recommend buying the sauciest undies you can find and hanging them ON THE OUTER EDGE of the drier. Also hang up a large note (possibly painted on a beach towel or similar) saying 'Look at my pants'.

And let us all know how it goes.

My neighbour hates my laundry too.

When I first moved in and got a retractable line, within seconds of the first wash flapping in the breeze she was out in the garden asking me if my tumble drier had broken. When I explained no, (and over a long conversation where her disapproval mounted and my obstinacy deepened) she culminated her speech with telling me our underwear hanging on the line didn't "look nice" (cue catsbum mouth) and that I was the first person in 25 years on the street to hang out their washing. I said I hoped I'd set a trend and within a week my lovely neighbour on the other side also bought a clothesline!

I'm childish enough to now always hang "the smalls" in fullest view of her window.

alas I don't own any racy stuff, and in all fairness the ones that I do have could be mistaken for tents/parachutes

that's the problem. Hang up a row of nice red and black lacey thongs and there won't be any complaints, I reckon.

Just as well they don't live next to me

I recently had a rather saucy cancan dancers out fit on the line (I'd worn it to a fancy dress party...I don't make a habit of it I promise!)

Its got to be a joke surely?

Barristermum . I had no idea people were so mad.