in drying my underwear in my back garden?

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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?

family's not families doh!

Buy a gimp suit and make sure you hang it out on your line OP.

Feck me I hang my smalls greys out on the line without thought,I often smirk about my more sensualslut stuff when pegging it on the line.

If I received a note like that,I'd be tempted to pass it onto the local paper,it would cause a right stir.

Lord of the Flies

In some parts of America theyre not allowed to hang washing outside. Said neighbour should consider emigrating

I think you need to spend tomorrow morning hosing down a rubber gimp suit in the garden and then hang it out to dry.

I have felt your pain in the past MrsHavisham, I had/have a thing for Goths so it was inevitable :)

I actually met Dani Filth once. Well, I say met - he was making himself the centre of attention at a bar in Nottingham one night while we were all out, filling the entire walkway as he did so - was not impressed as we elbowed our way past totally unmoved by his 'celebrity'

Menstrual Bunting........Forensic Chromatography.....
This has to be the best thread ever.....

God your neighbour is a nutter, I have never given a thought to how what I hang out, and thinking about tit now I am a bit of a random hanger, I hate leaving spaces, so if I've hung a tee-shirt a pair of boxers or pants will fill in the gap.

If we're voting I think you should do a combo of the leaflet and Line Sign.

Actually Line Signs could be a new business venture.

Would be unreasonable if you were to dry your underwear in someone else's back garden. You need to get some racy lingerie to hang up, crotchless knickers, and a revolting jock strap like that one Patrick Swayze wore in Keeping Mum.

pergolalola

I'm speechless. That is also illegal because she had to trespass on your laaand. Psychohag.

menstrual bunting - priceless, who said that?

Oh god i don't give a feck who sees my smalls. I hand then on the line in all their glory. Sometimes i do just a wash of undies so my line is nothing buy pants and bras.

You need to get a full gimp suit and hang it out on the line and write in lipstick on the chest 'I saw you disliked the pants so here is another offering you FREAK'

watch out for the knicker thief

Isn't this a Traveller tradition? That you don't put your underwear out to dry where it can be seen? I seem to remember reading that female underwear had to be pegged inside sheets so that it dried out of the sight of the men.

Mad neighbour. If it's a dry day all washing here goes on line. What's "not nice" about drying underwear? If mystery neighbour doesn't want to stare at my underwear then she can go and do something useful.
It would only concern me in a "my god I've got an unhinged neighbour staring at my washing line and simmering, what else are they going to go OTT about" sort of way.

Go immediately into your bedroom, find your sluttiest looking underwear (stockings, red lacy stuff, anti basques?) and hang them all up at full view. DO IT!

How bizarre! I'm more concerned about DH seeing my big Sloggi flesh coloured pants that I wear under linen, and wondering when it all changed!
I do conceal saucy undies so that DS(12) and his mates aren't confronted with the fact that we still have sex while they sit in the garden.
I don't give a hoot about what the neighbours think about what's on my line.

I don't mean that we have sex while they sit in the garden! Although........

PMSL - how ridiculous!!!

As I type my knickers and bra are on my line which although is in my back is really my front garden as I live in a back to front house - no fences either.

What a filthy hussey I am!!!

Lord, you're right, of course, what was I thinking?

haha, bonkers at you have sex while they sit in the garden
and yes people totally aware it was illegal, was so shocked when it happened and plus i was still laughing about the fact she even said something

mrstwat what a tart !

Your neighbours are mental.

Agree with everyone else. Buy a gimp outfit - peg it out with pride.

I love this thread...

2 things spring to mind - am just in the middle of selling dad's house, and one of the restrictive covenants is that washing may not be hung forward of the line of the house (not 'seen', mind, just 'hung'....) I said to the solicitor that that was the kind of thing that would make me deliberately do it!

Also, I had a similar note to the OP's about 10 years ago when I moved into a rented flat which had a little conservatory on the ground floor. Place was in chaos, I'd done some washing and hung it there to dry (not even anything of the small variety, either!) and got a note from the next door lady explaining that as the conservatory had been a car parking space, it was technically included within the definition 'outside' and no washing was allowed to be hung out side at all. Including inside the conservatory.... Cue jaw hitting the floor that anyone had so little to do with their time they could be worried about it.

Where I am now there's four families that hang all sorts of washing out across the back (shared) yard....

We live next to a church and I must admit I do take care on funeral days. We used have an actual knicks-down-for-funerals-alert, but have dropped it owing to too many misunderstandings.

it has to be a piss take ...surely - I put all our clothes out on the line and have never given it a second thought.

barbarian

I've just seen this is one of the topics on The Wright Stuff tomorrow!