to think my neighbours think I'm stupid?

[CrystalQueen]

Our TV signal disappeared during the week. Tonight DH went out with a torch to investigate and discovered that the cable to our aerial has been cut, and attached to a cable going into our downstairs neighbours' flat instead. Did they think we couldn't figure it out? I have a PhD FFS.

Previous encounters include the request to phone them a taxi at 7.30am, and the unforgettable use of their living room window as a door after locking themselves out (and leaving their smashed bathroom window unrepaired for three months with just a bit of cardboard in the way. They live in the ground floor). And of course the time my DH had to go down to find out why their smoke alarm had been going off for ages, to find their keys in the door, the door open and the inhabitants passed out drunk.

The reason I thought it completely superfluous was that OP's husband (PhD status unknown) was the one who did the figuring out.

And agree with PPs that possession of a PhD does not indicate possession of common sense.

Maid it was a lighthearted joke, I think you are overthinking it

Maid it was a lighthearted joke

Understood. And I am joining in.

Perhaps I need to be more liberal with winkies.

reconnect the cable to yours and tie a Gift tag to your cable saying "as an early Christmas gif to you we have simply reconnected our TV without reporting you for theft, Ho Ho Ho Crystal"

Oops! that should be "Ho Ho Ho Dr Crystal", sorry Doc.

Were you watching Breaking Bad when this theft happened?

I would absolutely be rigging up a contraption with a yogurt pot and sealant round the join in the cables. A nice heavy rainshower and water will be flooding down that cable straight into the TV, and possibly leaking onto the wall/floor around the box/entry point in the wall .

Or I'd just phone the police immediately, having taken a photo.

What have you done OP?

Hopefully you've called 101. I shouldn't think confronting the neighbours would achieve much - we used to have neighbours of this ilk. You could ask them for your distinctive garden furniture back whilst they were resting their arses on it, and they'd still swear on their grannie's grave that they'd not seen it . Yes that happened.

thanks for the laugh, santa's . I had an h like that- you cd catch him in bed with some random and he's say-what dick? what woman? what bed? Fortunately i didn't have to experience that before i said byebye!