to ask my neighbour why in the hell they are constantly drying black bin bags

[KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth]

My next door neighbours constantly have black bin bags on their washing line. Not in their main garden but in the side return, right next to our house. Our kitchens look into the other but we have a fence up which just about blocks us from seeing each other. However day and night for the past 2-3 months they have had black bin bags on their washing line. I wouldn't give a crap about what people have on their washing line ordinarily but it makes a right din, especially in the wind we have had recently. DS13's bedroom is at that end of the house and says he can hear them rustling really loudly all night long (which I know sounds ridiculous but they must have 4-5 bin bags rustling away at any one time).
These bin bags keep blowing up in the air too and our dogs are losing the plot about it, they don't usually bark much but 15ft glossy black apparitions springing up is sending them mad.

Every morning, when I'm in the office (we have an office annex in the garden so can see directly up their garden without effort) I can see her taking bags off the line and replacing them with new bags.

Come on, what am I missing here? Have a missed a bizarre trend? They are bizarre people as it is but I can't figure out wtf is going on here.

PMSL!!!

Fair dues for asking. Nicely too...such a shame you don't have a reason why she is doing it but hey ho...that's the way it goes sometime.

If they had holes in they could be for shielding the around-the-toilet-area from sheer awfulness. But then that thought leads to her having to wash off the awfulness in the bath...

She told you her daughter goes to a different school to the one she actually goes to? Weird.

peekyboo "sheer awfulness" has made me laugh so much.

Yes she seemed very shifty as soon as I mentioned the black bin bags which is weird because she was handing them up on the line the whole time. And she was wearing pink rubber gloves.

Omg!!!
Definitely pee the beds.
Now she'll never talk to you again ! 😂

Just Googled 'why would you wash and dry black bin bags' and this thread is the first line!!
Op you are infamous on Google right now!!
Well done!!
Now get out with the dogs and catch the teen!!

Well, if she isn't prepared to discuss the matter with you- I guess you'll just have to fly a camera drone past her windows respect her privacy.

madame Yes, the school her daughter goes to has a very distinct uniform which involves a very bright blazer, the school she told me her daughter goes to have a black sweatshirt.

It's drugs.
She's wearing gloves to keep her fingerprints off them now she's cleaned previous prints off them.

Oh dear. Tell her swearing is not acceptable.

keep watching though

This has proper creeped me out! Shivers down the spine. Can only think it must be drugs.

It is DEFINITELY something weird. With the defensiveness snapping out so suddenly like that. I bet it's a sex thing. Probably gross.

Wow!!! What an update! I am now deeply suspicious of the ops neighbour. Is she murdering people, chopping them up making them in to a stew then washing away the evidence??

I think it can't be too dodgy if she willingly hung them out on the line (we are pretty over looked) for months and actually did it in front of me?

She sounds weird!

So now you have two things that need to be cleared up. At least next time you see the daughter you can say "hope I didn't offend your mum... she was hanging out bin bags and I just asked...."

Wow!!!! I kinda loved her response more than getting an answer. Not the rudeness, but none of us were expecting that. Sorry we all kind of nagged you into a situation where you get told to fuck off though!

My mind is boggling.... Will she keep up the hanging out of the bin bags now she thinks you are watching? Ooooooh!

I think they line the bed with them because they're incontinent. It's the most likely explanation for the hanging out and the touchiness.

I definitely think bedwetting... it'll be that or she's a squirter

Yvette surely they'd throw them in the bin or buy a mattress protector???

Lol at the fuckoff

Take a packet of biscuits round see if she invites you in for a cuppa tea.

Exactly. That's why it's something weird.

Not making light of urine incontinence, but I'd leave a dandelion bouquet on her doorstep as way of apology.

DH has made an interesting point that if you were asked the question about making costumes for school and you did have something to hide surely you would leap on that and say they were doing a project on recycling/bats/the colour of her soul?

While I would love to know the answer to this puzzle, I have to say that you actually are a nosy and rather rude neighbour, and I'm glad I don't live next to you.

Oh dear.

I think too incontinence and using as mattress protectors. Clearly something a bit embarrassing! BUT - you'd use new every time surely-?!!!