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AIBU but dressing gown at 10am outside!

124 replies

Tunsey · 22/04/2018 10:11

Sorting my laundry out just now and hear a toddler outside. Take a look and grandmother (I think) walking toddler. Really cute. But she’s in her pyjamas and her dressing gown. AIBU to think this is odd?!

We are early risers so maybe that’s why I find this a little odd!?

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champagneplanet · 22/04/2018 11:56

So many people wearing their judgey pants instead of their dressing gown today Grin

Maybe not the norm but if it's a case of keeping toddler happy I can see why.

Snowman123 · 22/04/2018 11:59

If she's in her garden/ immediate vicinity - fine (no matter what time of day).

If she's out for a stroll in her PJs - not fine.

RoseWhiteTips · 22/04/2018 11:59

No one should wear nightwear - and that a dressing gown - outside at any time. It looks awful.

RoseWhiteTips · 22/04/2018 12:00

...that includes a dressing gown

invisibleoldwoman · 22/04/2018 12:04

Years ago I took the the tiny grandchildren for walks up the street in the mornings. We were all in our pyjamas (I also wore a dressing gown so as not to frighten anyone). They were full of energy and I wanted to give the parents a lie in. Happy days😍

To quote Hope Lye ‘no one died’

LovelySouffle · 22/04/2018 12:08

Depends if you live in a prestigious cul-de-sac or not. Grin

WorldWideWanderer · 22/04/2018 12:14

I really wonder why people get so worked up about dressing gowns and pyjamas. Does it matter?
Now, if someone was in the skimpiest of bikinis, I would think that exposing that amount of flesh (other than on the beach) could be upsetting to some....but a dressing gown usually covers a great deal, so do pyjamas, so I can't really understand what the issue is?

Oldraver · 22/04/2018 12:20

I had really thought we had moved on and people didnt give a shit about stuff like this.

I remember in the early days of being married and newly pregnant a work colleagues wife actually going up to my husband and telling him that my curtains were still shut at 10.30am oh the shock horror

whatwouldrondo · 22/04/2018 12:22

This might well be a grandma who got up at crack of sparrows fart with the toddler to let the parents sleep in and took him or her for a walk to stop him running up the walls of the house. You should be applauding her not going on mumsnet commenting on the fact she hasn’t had chance to get dressed.... I too was in pjs at 10am due to being the mug who got up to look after the puppy whilst a whole household of hungover adults snored happily on.... people forgoing the luxury of getting dressed to care for others are national treasures IMHO....

iklboo · 22/04/2018 12:26

Seeing people out in the street in the dressing gowns is not a surprise, but what is a surprise is walkin to the shops at quarter to ten this morning and seeing a group of about 10 kids all in their pjs and dressing gowns walking away from the mcdonalds with mcdonalds cups and food in hand. Just pure laziness.

Maybe they'd had a sleepover party and this was part of the fun?

MumofBoysx2 · 22/04/2018 12:27

In the garden if no one can see you, find. But out in the street, definitely not! Having said that, maybe the toddler ran off and the Grandmother rushed out to fetch him back. You wouldn't wait to get changed then, I hope!

BabychamSocialist · 22/04/2018 12:42

Arthur Dent travelled the universe in his dressing gown - didn't do him any harm!

ZibbidooZibbidooZibbidoo · 22/04/2018 12:46

Who the fuck thinks about people’s genitals when they see them??? Fucking creep.

JacquesHammer · 22/04/2018 13:07

I hate this. I don't like looking at people and knowing their sweaty genitals are only covered by a thin layer of jersey that's been clinging to them all night. Vom

You do know looking at someone and considering their genitals in detail as you do is rather bizarre?

No one should wear nightwear - and that a dressing gown - outside at any time. It looks awful

So you’d like me to get up even earlier to put the bins out so I can shower and get dressed just so I don’t offend your delicate sensibilities.

You’d have a conniption if you saw me Rose, my tattoos would be on show too. Gasp.

QuestionableMouse · 22/04/2018 15:03

@NotTheFordType Good lord dear... You've put a lot of thought into this. I sleep in the nude and put Pj's on when I get up because they're much more comfortable than my normal clothes.

Celebelly · 22/04/2018 15:09

I got up, dressed, went out and did some food shopping, came home, and I'm back in my PJs again. Bliss. I also hang the washing out in my PJs and have taken the bin out in my PJs too.

missmorleyme · 22/04/2018 15:54

iklboo possibly, but they could have put their shoes and coats on over, bot slippers on wet grpund and thin dressing gowns, unfortunately sights like that rnt uncommon around here.

Original poster
Tunsey · 22/04/2018 16:35

Thank you all for your wonderful comments. I do sense a tiny bit of irony about being judgemental and to be fair I was just asking. Wink

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Almostfifty · 22/04/2018 16:38

I saw someone in her PJs and dressing gown in a motorway service station yesterday.

I just don't understand it, why wouldn't you put some clothes on to go on a journey. She wasn't coming in to use the showers, just to get a coffee.

VexahliaDeRolo · 22/04/2018 16:45

Oh, the humanity!

3l3ctricmeter · 22/04/2018 18:25

Some of us work nights, so you may find me in my dressing gown at 3pm 4, 5pm

imscaredd · 22/04/2018 18:37

I live in my dressing gown. If I'm in my house it's on. I'm only happy in my dressing gown Grin

QuestionableMouse · 22/04/2018 22:16

@Almostfifty maybe she was travelling in an emergency or her suitcase had been delayed or she was having a bad day medically or one of a million other things. Did it hurt you?

FASH84 · 22/04/2018 22:29

I definitely go into the garden in PJs to water it or hang laundry, take bins out etc. DH walks to work these days (couple of miles and he'd have to pay to park), and I have some weeks working from home so often offer to pick him up if it's late, he often finishes around 9/10pm once the last service user has left. If I've already had a bath I'll go in my PJs but don't leave the car and always feel a bit concerned that I'll break down, wearing PJ bottoms with multi coloured stars and a pink sweatshirt with a cat dressed as a unicorn on 😂

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