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AIBU?

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Original poster

to wonder what this man was doing at the end of our lane?

29 replies

Hatwoman · 23/09/2011 22:24

I took the dog out at about 10pm. just as I was nearly home a car drove past going towards the end of the lane - it's a dead end and there are only 2 houses beyond ours. It pulled over and a man got out. I was quite a distance away - maybe 30 yards, but he seemed to bend down, examine the bottom of his car, then wash his hands and arms in the stream. Intrigued I loitered and then he splashed water on his back windscreen. AIBU to think this a bit odd?

I'm off out now to check out whether the car is there again - ie to see if he lives there.

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planetpotty · 23/09/2011 22:29

Bloody hell!! That is odd but dont worry ..... maybe he hit a badger and it was stuck on the bottom of the car? does not explain the splashing of water on the back windscreen though but if its dark maybe it just looked like it?

Hmmmmm Miss Marple in me is kicking in..........

TakeThisOneHereForAStart · 23/09/2011 22:32

Did you think to get the number plate?

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Hatwoman · 23/09/2011 22:35

it was last night - just realised it sounded like it was tonight. I was too far away to get the number plate - it was a distinctive car though as it was a driving instructor car. I have to confess I looked at the local police website today to see if there's been any incidents that it could possibly be tied to. but no. I just can;t think of a reasonable explanation. Car not there just now and I don't think it normally is.

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AgentZigzag · 23/09/2011 22:41

You can't help wondering what he was washing off his hands and car, and hoping there's a non-sinister answer.

I'm sure you'd get to hear if anyone had been hurt in a hit and run.

FabbyChic · 23/09/2011 22:44

My guess? He had sex with the woman bending over with her hands on the window of his car, he smelt of sex so he washed himself and the handprints off the car before he went home, as he is married.

AgentZigzag · 23/09/2011 22:50

I saw you'd posted and just had to have a look at what you thought on the matter fabby.

I didn't waste my time Grin

Classic.

LoveInAColdClimate · 23/09/2011 22:52

That does sound weird. Do you live in Midsommer?

CheeseandGherkins · 23/09/2011 22:53

How strange.

Vallhala · 23/09/2011 22:53

Sounds like he'd hit an animal to me. :(

LoveInAColdClimate · 23/09/2011 22:56

But if he'd hit an animal, surely he wouldn't be scraping it off with his hands to need to wash them, and it wouldn't have affected the back window?

DorcasBouvier · 23/09/2011 22:56

Yes, very odd that he was cleaning the rear windscreen. If he'd ran something over, you'd think the front would need doing. Maybe he'd been putting something messy in the boot...

sunshinelifeisgood · 24/09/2011 00:26

another twat on mumsnet which is getting twattier by the day :) so fecking boring...

LoveInAColdClimate · 24/09/2011 00:29

What, Sunshine?

AgentZigzag · 24/09/2011 00:29

What's that sunshine?

Who's a twat?

What's boring?

booyhoo · 24/09/2011 00:31

if it was a driving school car mot likely explanation i that a student he had just dropped off had a bit of a bump, maybe went into the ditch and gotmud over the back windsreen by spinning the wheels tring to get out. the man waited til he dropped student off before checking for damag and cleaning the back windscreen.

milkmilklemonade · 24/09/2011 08:25

I don't want to sound rude but why is it any of your business?

SnapesMistress · 24/09/2011 12:57

I actually quite like Fabby's explanation. :o

Bangtastic · 24/09/2011 14:33

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Hatwoman · 24/09/2011 15:03

milkmilklemonade - it's not my business - which is why I didn't go marching up to him and say "excuse me my man what are you doing?" It did, however, leave me wracking my brains, and failing to come up with an explanation and hence posting on here to see if other people too would "wonder" (see thread title) what he was doing and/or if they could come up with an explanation.

and there was, tbh, a little bit of me wondering if there could be a sinister explanation - and I wondered if anyone else would think that too.

have you seriously never been interested by other people's behaviour even when it's not your business?

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AuntieMonica · 24/09/2011 15:09

was the driver Sting?

he washed in rivers or something for a while didn't he?

Grin
LadyBeagleEyes · 24/09/2011 15:10

No, nobody's business but still makes for an intriguing thread on a lazy, wet Saturday afternoonGrin.
And it brings out all us amateur Sherlocks.
Hmmm, Yup, I agree with Valhalla, he probably hit an animal.

AgentZigzag · 24/09/2011 15:11

However unlikely a sinister explanation might be, the thought crossing your mind is a justification for it being your business.

If I saw someone I didn't recognise up a ladder at my neighbours house and climbing in their window, it might not be my house or business, but I would ask them WTF they were up to - nicely of course, because that's the just kind of person I am Grin

southeastastra · 24/09/2011 15:14

maybe a bird pooed on his back window. was he looking at the bottom of the car in the front or back?

piprabbit · 24/09/2011 15:16

I love these threads, the wilder the explanations the better.

I think the explanation has to be sinister. Perhaps he reversed into someone tall, they hit the rear window and then he ran over them backwards. The hand washing is simply him trying to cope with the guilt Lady Macbeth style "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?".

AuntieMonica · 24/09/2011 15:18

perhaps he was baptising the car, but fear of ridicule led him to do it at night?

was it a particual phase of the moon....

got it!!

He'd been hit by a slimey bit off that satellite that was falling to earth and he was rinsing moon-slobber off Grin