to pretend the knickers aren't mine?

[Celledora]

Toddler just threw underwear from the clothes horse over the balcony into the courtyard we share with ALL of our neighbours and where a few older kids are playing. They're clean but old (y'know the ones, period pants). If I leave them, the maintenance people will have to pick them up on their weekly check which is a bit grim for them - but I know we will forever be pants-lady-and-baby if I can't get them ninja style... would you just sacrifice the pants and hope none tells the maintenance men whose they are/that they don't post them through my letterbox?

[greenlavender]

Don't let them get darked on

[sewingtheseedsoflove]

I lost a pair of holiday pants over the balcony in Ibiza.

They landed on the canopy of the bar below and were irretrievable.

I brazened it out when they plopped onto the floor when they opened the canopy the next morning.

[SemiNormal]

Shockers - Same happened to me! Late teens/early twenties ... day befores undies stuck in the trouser leg, I had NO IDEA. First I knew about it was when I got home and the kids in the street were chasing each other with them dangling off the edge of a stick They kept shouting to me 'We've got your knickers, we've got your knickers' .. of course I just said 'don't be so bloody daft my knickers are on my arse!'. They MUST have known they were mine, they were size 10 thongs in a street full of elderly people, there were no one elses they could possibly have been!!

OP I feel your pain. If you hang washing out there then take a washing basket out and drop a few items near the knickers and then scoop them up when you retreive what you've dropped.

[frasersmummy]

This thread is hilarious but let me get this right.MN rules state you shalt not let your smalls get darked on..
Except when chucked in communal courtyard by toddler...

[Bettercallsaul1]

they were size 10 thongs Now is that a stealth boast, SemiNormal?

[SemiNormal]

Bettercallsaul1 - I did have a cracking figure back then to be fair, but all I did was complain I was 'fat'!! I'd give anything to be wearing size 10 thongs again and not size 12 (on a good day) control pants!!

[scaryclown]

Two options.

1. Set alarm for 4am and remove them
   
2. Go down with a litter picker and clear all the litter as a 'good deed'

[Celledora]

2befatger, riverunswoodville smileachday, a plan...pantageddon begins at midnight. I will send a message around the neighbours re: overnight knicker throwing flash mob. Some people have mice, I'm imagining a wave of y-front parachutes and pantophile cat skirmishes...

[Celledora]

Straycatblue I can perhaps manage a garden (balcony) chair...less spectacular though

[Celledora]

Bluekarou, love it. Will buy these disguises for future shame-fixing schenanegans

[ScoobyDoosTinklyLaugh]

One day when I was in school, unbeknown to me, yesterdays dirty thong was wedged in one of my trouser legs. It wiggled its way out at break time. I denied it.

[WoofWoofMooWoof]

This actually reminds me of a mortifying incident when I was in my early teens. I went to a week horseriding camp every year, and the one year I left a pair of knickers there. The next year, during dinner (think around 30 teens), the owner of the farm held up the knickers and asked who had left them there the previous year. Stupidly, and blushing furiously, I walked forward, and to gales of laughter, retrieved my knickers. I was ever after known as the pants girl. WTF I didn't just plead ignorance I'll never know.

So on second thought - just pretend they're not yours!

[Celledora]

Littlecaf I think we could go one further and suggest they are ghost pants