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?

That should be an "indoor airer" and she "does" not dies - ruddy iPhone thinks it knows best

V funny. Have a word with your local Ann Summers rep and offer to dry her kit in your garden - all of it

I hang my knickers on the inner lines because I'd rather not admit to the chest high monstrosities I wear to attempt to hold my tummy in - normal pants go wherever on the line and I've not had a complaint yet.

Your neighbour is barking!!

I'd be writing a message on a bedsheet tomorrow and hanging it on the line....

This thread has really made me giggle.
Everything I wash goes out but my sister who is a policewoman in a small community will not hang any of her underwear out.
Remember how people tell you to imagine a person who is telling you off on the toilet???
She says she is sure people would imagine her in her underwear if she has to speak to them!

Wow I put my underwear out to dry (and DSD's who wears very racy thongs and knickers) and my fence is only 4 foot high! I'd put a big sign up saying something like, "This is to the the pervert who likes to look at my underwear FUCK OFF!"

My mum doesn't hang undies out and one day heard over the (very high) hedge 'you know I don't think they wear knickers next door' :) !

So she hung and left out the most huge pair of pants she could find!

Nosey nosey neighbours. I hang mine out - everyday hip huggers and 'special occasion' sets :)

I have just put underwear on my washing line (yes I know it's late but I hope it will get at least a bit dry before bedtime).

Next door have boxers shorts on their line so they can't complain.

My knickers and DH' pants always hang proud from the line. We have a single line across the garden so we couldn't hide them if we tried. No complaints, so far.

I work for the Council and washing hanging out is just one of myriad of insignificant things people get their knickers in a twist about.

Pun intended.

This thread is hilarious! And of course, OP, your neighbour IBU.

Loved WhereTheWildThingsWere comment: "Not only do I currently have pants on my line but washable sanitary towels too ... Dp calls them 'menstrual bunting"

My husband has a t shirt with an obscene picture of nuns on it, and one with "too drunk to fuck" printed on the back. When I hang out the laundry I make sure the offending sides of the t shirts are facing the hedge and not the front door in case it affends the postman :)

Is the Nuns one a Cradle of Filth T-shirt MrsHavisham?

MrsHavisham I used to hang my offspring's t shirts inside out for fear of offending someone (well I didn't particularly like a certain Cannibal Corpse one)

Marking my place on this thread, I am intruiged now to see if you find out who the mystery note sender is. I'm picturing a Hyacinth Boo-kay type .

love the letter idea

perhaps you could say

' i am sorry to have to warn you that a pervert is amongst us and they have been spying on my personal washing and making comments about my knickers'

Yes! Cradle of filth! I keep trying to throw it away, but have been thwarted every time. Good idea about inside out, it honestly never occurred to me before, oddly enough.

Brilliant thread, making me giggle so much!!!

Oh my I'm PMSL at this - especially as I'm about to go and take the washing in off my communal line in my communal garden that has no fence between it and the car spaces. and yes my undies are on it, oh and bras too!!

You need to go out to hang washing wearing your underwear.That would give them something to talk about.

I thought of this thread this afternoon when I went into the garden and saw my 20 year old neighbours underwear on the line. We were talking peep hole, lacy, baby doll nighties etc etc. It must have been the whole underwear drawer as the whole line was full! Just showing off in my book that her knickers (probably size 6 or 8) were so skimpy

Actually, the talk of hip-huggers and skimpies makes me wonder if this is sometimes a matter of blocking the sun rather than prudishness. There could be rules about it, like the High Hedges act.

My neighbour rantanned on my door and demanded that I stop using my tumble-dryer. She felt that if she could not afford to use hers that I should not be able to afford to use mine??
She took it as a personal afront whenever I used mine, and eventually stopped talking to me over it.
She used to put her washing on the line in all weathers, and even on Christmas day.
Odd.

This thread is hilarious - Lifeisbuttercream you must send that letter round the neighbours!!

Pregolalola - - she took your washing off your own line Unbelievable - you could have unknowingly reported it as theft and then she would have looked a very stupid.

I've never heard of people complaining about hanging out washing before!

Oh and I too hide the smalls at the inside

Buttercream Please please please PLEASE get a load of crotchless knickers and hang them on the line. How very dare they. Insanity.

I knew someone who was moving in to a new house and used it as a bragging point that none of the neighbours hung washing out, therefore she wouldn't either. Personally, I thought she was a bit of an up-her-own-arse fuckwit.