Oh holy fuck I need to move house immediately. And change my name and possibly have facial surgery.

[EssieTregowan]

We live in a detached house. There is a small row of terraced 'starter' houses opposite (this is relevant).

I can back from the school run to find a hand delivered card on the mat to 'Rebecca'. Rebecca lives opposite in one of the terraces, but I couldn't remember which one.

Anyway, I've just seen her pull in so I dashed out the front to hand it to her. She apologised for the inconvenience and I laughed and said 'no worries, who ever it was obviously thought you were better off than you are!'

What the actual fuck is wrong with me?

I just went all shivery as soon as I said it and turned round and ran indoors. Oh my god what must she think of me?

I have often crippling social anxiety and often blurt out stuff without thinking but this has to be my worst ever.

Kill me now. It would be a kindness.

Sorry but I love the idea of you saying that to her then immediate running off as fast as your legs can carry you and then slamming the door. While she's still stood there with her gob wide open

HA !! Newt

I would have to live with the hope your neighbour will be so shocked that she will convince herself she misheard.

Oh I forgot the next bit:

He luaghed good-nautredly and said "I can't see it as well as you from inside the house"

So I replied:

"You'll have to come over and look at"

It could only have been worse if I'd said "From our bedroom"

Honestly I am not a letch

I can't go over there. I might be able to put a card through when she's gone out.

Oh god I'm hoping I can get to along where I'm laughing at this. I am honestly not in any way a snob, we are skint and I'm mental, also we are quite a bit older than R and her DH so just further up the property ladder (through sheer luck,frankly), not better off.

Shit

Name change fail

That was fucking horrible.

If it helps, I said this to the guy who was helping me shovel muck at my allotment yesterday:

Him - you grown veg before?

Me- yes, I had a couple of raised beds in the garden.

Him- different here though. It's very exposed.

Me- oh, no. I had land.

For fuck's sake.

OMG why?! 😂

Yep thats me! Forget it, its said. Xxx

Pop a note through her door inviting her to your Friday-night swinging session. It will take her mind off her earlier encounter with you.

There will be a new AIBU any minute

Title: AIBU to think this is bloody rude

NC as this will out me. I've just moved in to a new house and a neighbour came round to give me a letter address to me. She said the person who dropped it off at her house must have thought I had more money than I did because her house is so much bigger! After she said it she just ran off and slammed the door.

AIBU to think this is so rude? I'm in shock!

Bloody hell . That was somewhere in your head, or it couldn't have come out of your mouth...
You sound overly up yourself about your detached house.

I agree with theverything others saying go over and set things straight- your neighbour probably thought she misheard you or something!

anxiety sucks balls!

Tricycle

She knows that. Nice of you to make an anxious guilty person feel worse though

Oh lord. I'm laughing but I imagine you're mortified. It's a hard one as it might be best to leave it rather than send a card and bring it up again.

newtormaybeyoda you are doing great today

and
I bought some crockery off eBay a while back- pre sat nav and Citymapper days. I collected it from a new build and 'complicated to a new comer' estate in a notoriously grim part of London so when I was near I spent £4 on a local A-Z and found it easily.
The seller was in, crockery perfect and beautifully wrapped, very successful and civilised until I insisted absolutely insisted that she accept the map. Because I'll never use it again, I've never been to this neighbourhood and I'll never need to again
Ironically I regularly found myself very near when I started an outreach job a few years later and blushed furiously whenever I was near.

I think apologising by a little note through the door will make you both feel better

I'm really really not up myself. If anything it's the opposite. I'm constantly feeling like a pretender on this estate and I worry that the other people in the big houses think I'm unworthy and that the people in the attached houses think I'm a snob. I think that must be where it came from in the dark recesses of my addled brain.

I'm basically a mess.

Aw man you can't leave it. You're going to spend all weekend worrying about it. You have to put a note through Rebecca's door right now!

Dear Rebecca

I am an utter twat. I am so, so sorry, I had some sort of brainfart and it just popped out.

Love

Essie

I do feel for you Essie.

Are you sure you're not a snob though? You call them 'starter homes' and refer to the 'property ladder'. You know that a lot of families will actually never be able / want to live in a non-terraced house?

Menopause!!!!

Classic Freudian slip. If you are a Freudian obviously.