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To be so freaked out

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WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 09:52

My bedroom curtains are about a cm too short to be wide enough for the window so I put a peg on them in the night to keep them together because I can't sleep when light gets in so wouldn't have forgot to close them.

In the middle of the night DP got up to go to the bathroom and I heard him as i'm a really light sleeper, while he was in the bathroom I turned over to face the window and the curtains were wide open (my window is about 7ft wide so couldn't have blown open that far, plus the windows were closed so there was no wind)

I asked him when he came back from the bathroom why he'd opened them and he was adamant he hadn't touched them, he assumed that I'd done it. I said that he must have done it on the way to the bathroom and forgot as he was half asleep but he says he was wide awake and would have known if he'd done it. I didn't sleep for the rest of the night cos it really freaked me out, if he's adamant that he didn't do it and I definitely didn't do it then who did?! Blush
The only other person in the house is DS who's in his cot in his own room, he's 7 months.
Confused
AIBU to be really freaked out?!

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hauntedhenry · 09/04/2015 09:54

You forgot to close them.

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WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 09:56

I remember 100% closing them last night, and I wouldn't be able to get to sleep if they were open cos of the street light outside the window

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Booboostoo · 09/04/2015 09:59

Ask yourself what sounds more reasonable:

A malicious stranger broke into your house in order to open your curtains and left no other evidence of his presence,

or

your DP knocked off the peg?

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 09/04/2015 10:00

It must have been the ghosty curtain opener! Wink

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WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 10:19

The window is far away from the bed so he wouldn't have knocked it and even if he did the window is about 7 ft wide so they wouldn't have blown that far open when the windows were closed with no wind coming in, I don't think anyone came in and did it lol but it is a bit freaky!

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TywysogesGymraeg · 09/04/2015 10:22

Well, obviously, either one of you opened them, or you didn't close them. What other explanation could there possibly be?

Are you really "freaked out"?

BestZebbie · 09/04/2015 10:25

I presume you don't have a cat?

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WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 10:25

We're both adamant we didn't open them and I definitely remember closing them, that's why I'm freaked outConfused

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WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 10:26

Nope no pets

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Icimoi · 09/04/2015 10:29

Oh come on, what are you imagining happened? That a burglar came in, opened the curtains, and went away again? Or that a ghost decided to use its opportunity to come back to earth not by visiting its loved ones, revealing the meaning of life or doing something significant, but by opening your curtains? Are either of those seriously likely?

AnxiousWreck · 09/04/2015 10:29

He opened them.

He feels like he was wide-awake because he went to the toilet and remembers going, as you remember him going. He probably opened the curtains on auto-pilot, though. He's got lots of memories of getting into and getting out of bed, he's probably recalling a different night.

If you had video footage of him opening the curtain, he'd say "I could of sworn I didn't touch them! I remember so clearly!"

Don't be freaked out.

TheMoa · 09/04/2015 10:29

One of you, being half asleep, noticed or remembered the peg. It triggered a 'curtains are a bit odd looking' thought, and you opened them, then went back to sleep.

Really not weird at all. 'Freaked out' would only be appropriate if you thought it was a ghost or intruder (which it absolutely wasn't).

Patapouf · 09/04/2015 10:31

There you go. Peg probably popped off, or one of you removed it. Or you forgot.

Chillyegg · 09/04/2015 10:32

Theres really no reason to be freaked out, someone forgot to close a curtain!
I do it all the time put my glasses/phone/socks/shoes and forget where they bloody well are.
I some times forget to close a window and have been sure i was the one who closed it!

So relax.

Also if you are such a light sleeper you'd surely of heard a ghastly intruder playing about with your soft furnishings!

TywysogesGymraeg · 09/04/2015 10:36

Your DH is winding you up.

Discounted · 09/04/2015 10:38

We had an incident a few years ago. DH couldn't find his phone in the morning. I was telling him it must be where he left it, he was adamant a child must have hidden it.

It was only much later in the afternoon when I found the sim card on the dining room table where the (helpful?) burglar had left it that we realised we'd been burgled. I'd also lost some cash from my purse and DH had some missing from his wallet.

There was no trace of their entry or exit, except for a tiny mark in the UPVC doorframe where they'd got a screwdriver in and nothing disturbed at all. I consider myself a light sleeper, DCs can't turn over without waking me, but I hadn't heard a thing. That was freaky, but why would someone break in to open your curtains? Is anything missing?

peggyundercrackers · 09/04/2015 10:47

you have got up and opened them in your sleep.

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WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 10:52

No nothing missing that I know of

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SycamoreMum · 09/04/2015 11:04

Yep you have a poltergeist. Tell it to piss off and then await the growly voice to say, 'Noooo!'

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 09/04/2015 11:08

Where is the peg?

WorraLiberty · 09/04/2015 11:12

One of you did it in your sleep

The peg sprang off

You've fallen victim to the phantom curtain opener.

nokidshere · 09/04/2015 11:22

I walked from my kitchen to my office one morning and misplaced my watch. I absolutely didn't go anywhere else in the house. But I obviously did because next time I went to the downstairs bathroom there was my watch sitting on the sink.

We do things so automatically that we really have no recollection of doing them.

The most likely explanation is usually the right one - so either the peg sprang off or one of you opened them.

PHANTOMnamechanger · 09/04/2015 11:27

Don't be freaked out it is not a ghost, but you probably have a family of tiny illegal immigrants living uder the bed, HTH

TheoriginalLEM · 09/04/2015 11:30

When i went out this morning, the front door was open, with the lock stuck on open........ do you live in the south east?

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WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 11:50

South Wales

The peg was still on one of the curtains.

Maybe my 7 month old ran in with a step ladder and did it Grin

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