So I live in a terraced house. We all have little patio/garden spaces in the backs of our houses, with a shared sort of alley. My neighbour on the end terrace has a boyfriend (more like, gentleman friend, as they're about 50) who stays on weekends with two little dogs. She's been here about six weeks, nice lady.
This morning I came back from the garden centre and went around the backs of our houses, straight to my garden. I was carrying pots and a trellis. Gentleman Friend was standing on the path with the two little dogs on leads, clearly waiting for neighbour to come out so they could go for a walk.
I get to my garden and see that there are two fresh dog messes right there. I cleaned them up and--trust me, they were brand new.
It was right on the tip of my tongue to say, "Is this you? You gonna clean this up?"
But then I thought, no, surely not. I mean... no. And if it were him he's clearly psychotic so speaking won't do anything.
He stood there and watched me clean the dog mess, then neighbour came out and they went on their walk.
The dogs were on leads when I happened to come around the corner, and my garden was out of their lead-range, though maybe four feet away. But who else could it have been? It's a dead-end alley and no one walks there unless they're coming to one of our houses.
I suppose I could have said, "Oh my god, did you see who did this?" But I was just so freaked out.
I'm going to wait till he leaves tonight and have a word with neighbour. I'll just say it like, "I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I can't think of any other possibility..."
The other option is to just decide it was a random one-off and wait till it happens again.
No, surely best to just address it today?