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Just realised people are at it in my garden WIBU to...

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AVY1 · 13/08/2017 00:29

... whisper out of the window, 'I can see you!' in the creepiest voice I can manage?

In serious, heard the side gate swing a couple of minutes ago so had a glance out of the window. Fairly certain it's the neighbour from a few doors down but it doesn't look like her husband.

DH (who isn't here) thinks I should ring the police non-emergency. I think it's harmless (unless it is an affair but I'm not 100% it is her - there's been an event on at the pub at the end of our road but she'd have had to walk past her house to get to mine) but I don't think they mean any harm to us.

What would you do?

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SerfTerf · 13/08/2017 00:59

Where do all these unlikely events go on?

Do all the wacky threads originate from one really strange town?

user7841794168 · 13/08/2017 00:59

Print this thread and put it through their letterbox....

TmiTuesdays · 13/08/2017 01:00

DEFINITELY pressure wash the neighbours!

khajiit13 · 13/08/2017 01:00

Ohh! I'd have gone from amused to mad at the "cheers", do they have no shame!?

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 13/08/2017 01:00

Call her husband to come and collect her.

CremeFresh · 13/08/2017 01:00

So she's shagging some random while her husband is indoors a few houses away ??

SerfTerf · 13/08/2017 01:00

Maybe they are waiting for you to throw two cigarettes and a lighter out?

CremeFresh · 13/08/2017 01:01

I guess it beats the foxes I have that shag in my garden Grin

MorrisZapp · 13/08/2017 01:02

You threw a packet of baby wipes out of your window to your neighbour, who had just shagged a man who isn't her husband in your garden, and she said cheers?

A bloody likely story.

CremeFresh · 13/08/2017 01:02

Take a glass of water out , just in case he needs a penis beaker.

LouBlue1507 · 13/08/2017 01:02

Tell them to fucking leave then before you turn on the hose before going to have a word with Mr Neighbour!

elephantoverthehill · 13/08/2017 01:03

Definitely take the tray and tea out and start negotiations on rental charges for the space.

PerfectPenquins · 13/08/2017 01:04

Call her husband to pick her up, bloody hell this is beyond cheeky

WaitrosePigeon · 13/08/2017 01:04

Pics or it didn't happen

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AVY1 · 13/08/2017 01:04

We hear foxes all the time! I should have played a medley of fucking animal noises! Hedgehogs make an insane noise too! They've wandered off now. I tried to look out the front to see where they were heading but can't see anything. Utterly bizarre. I also can't see the packet of wipes - shall I go and ask for them back in the morning?

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StarsAndStripes18 · 13/08/2017 01:05

Cheeky feckers!!

This happened us when we lived out in the countryside between 15 and 20 years ago!

DH was working late one night about 11/12 o'clock and I heard a car pull into our drive (right beside the kitchen window), I thought it was him so passed no remarks, he still hadn't come into the house about 10 mins later so I pulled up the blind and got full view of a local lad and I assume his girlfriend getting verrrry cosy and romantic right outside my window Confused
They didn't even see me!

I flicked the outside light on and off a few times and honestly I've never seen a car scarper off as fast Grin I was so tempted to mention it to his brother (who I knew really well) but in the end I just couldn't do it to him Grin

MumIsRunningAMarathon · 13/08/2017 01:08

I don't understand where these things happen either....only on mumsnet

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AVY1 · 13/08/2017 01:08

I did take a picture in case I did want to involve the police but I'm not posting it on the internet! I'm fairly confident that would be a crime in itself.

@starsandstripes18 before I was sure it was the neighbour I felt it would be mean to interrupt but wish I had now!

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MeanAger · 13/08/2017 01:11

she'd have had to walk past her house to get to mine

When I was around 14 I was staying with my cousin who was babysitting her younger sister. Around 1am the door banged very loudly and her next door neighbour was doing the loud whispering thing asking to be let in. We thought something was wrong so opened the door and she said she was bursting for the loo and proceeded to run past us up the stairs hauling some strange man who was very much not her husband behind her giggling. She had to walk past her own house to get to my cousin's house from the main road. They proceeded to fall about the bathroom trying to put the relevant genitalia together in their drunken state while we hammered on the door trying to get them to leave. They were having none of it. Thankfully older cousin arrived home from her night out shortly after and told them she was booting the door in if they weren't out in 5 seconds. They left. No shame whatsoever! Grin

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AVY1 · 13/08/2017 01:11

@MumusRunningAMarathon I'm in Suffolk, I don't know if that explains anything?! It is a pretty strange town. I grew up here but didn't go to the local high school and have genuinely been told twice that I didn't get a job because I was an 'outsider'

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AVY1 · 13/08/2017 01:12

Mean that's horrendous! How do people even get to the point that these things seem like a good idea?!

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Annonymiss123 · 13/08/2017 01:13

Go take them a cup of tea on a tray...apologise for not having any biscuits. ..then sit down and join in the conversation

^^This literally made me LOL. Grin

LorLorr2 · 13/08/2017 01:14

Go and dream of what you'd like to do to the neighbours garden in return OP! Need to feel good in the morning for your 5K and you'll be annoyed with yourself if you wasted your night eyeing the shaggers instead of resting Grin Good luck with it tomorrow

Namechangetempissue · 13/08/2017 01:14

I would unashamedly lose my shit at the "cheers". Tell them to get the FUCK out now and that you have called the police.

HashiAsLarry · 13/08/2017 01:16

Hedgehogs make an insane noise too!
Not helpful to the thread but this is a noise I'll never forget from my childhood Shock