to think I do not have a communal washing line

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So I came back from the food shop on Monday lunchtime and looked out of the patio doors to see a pair of boxer shorts, mens jogging bottoms and a shirt on my line in my back garden mixed in with my towels and bedding that I had earlier put out!
I stood for a while pondering (actually wondering WTF was going on!)
then went to the car to unload the shopping. My NDN came out (miserable B) and said 'Why aren't you at work'. I replied saying I don't work Mondays, he said 'Oh I thought you were when you went out early this morning'. Then the penny dropped. I asked if it was his washing on my line, he said it was and he had jumped over the wall to hang it up, could I check it was dry and if not 'redress it' (he means peg it up properly upon questioning). I was gobsmacked.
When I told him I had a higher fence and side gate being put up in a few weeks he wasn't very pleased. I wonder how long he has been using my bloody line??!!

You need a cat turf war: they spray on washing to mark their territory.

Not exactly the same but I had a similar problem yesterday.

I’m in a semi-detached house and our garden and next door’s garden are separated by a 6ft 5” (ish) high fence.

I looked down into my garden of out my living room window yesterday morning (3 storey house and living room is on the middle level) and saw that the inside of fence was draped in next door’s clothes as they were using the fence as their washing mine. It wasn’t as though just a small part of the clothing was having over the top of the fence, they’d proper flung it over so 50% of each item of clothing was hanging over their side of the fence and the other 50% was dangling over ours.

Their house is joined on both sides and they had done this on both of the fences surrounding their garden which meant their other neighbours would also be enjoying a few of the neighbour’s washing flung over their fence too.

The worst thing was that it was windy yesterday and four items of clothing had blown off the fence and were lying on our lawn - including a pair of man’s pants!!!!

QueenofmyPrinces mow the lawn and cover their washing in grass clippings?

Hang on. He cuts your grass.
He is a bit cf, but then he does help you out too.

Best. Thread. Ever.

Queen
Cheeky beggars. You could warn them it they persist you’ll treat the washing the same as foliage. Anything overhanging on your side can be trimmed.

@CurlyWurlyTwirly , he only cut the grass once and then refused.

I'd buy him some cord to make a washing line and a small
Pack of wooden pegs, print some very basic instructions on how to make your own washing line from the internet, wrap it all up nicely (with a bow) and give him a gift.

He has really crossed a LINE here...

ok i'll keep my mouth CLOSED....

You need to take him down a PEG or two...

Redress it 😂😂😂
No I can't 'redress' it for you, you CF, because I have no idea what that means!
If he does it again, take it down and chuck it back over the fence to him.

I would have unpegged his washing and threw it back in his garden!

curlywurlytwirly
No he has never cut our grass. He offered last year but we declined. The other week he was moaning about the front lawn when he was doing his and showing off his new mower and I said he could do mine if he wanted and he refused. He doesn't do anything for anyone. I am the only person that tries to be civil to him. That was a mistake!

Oh and he used his own pegs.

He didn't knock. He was out having a smoke break when I went to get my shopping in from the car. He didn't offer any information, just started with asking why I was there, then I asked him if it was his washing.

My neighbors have done it again!!!

Cheeky shits!

Should I throw them back over??

Queen, take them down and use them

@QueenofmyPrinces - I would..but not all of them. Make a strategic decision to push a few of them back over (as though a gust of wind blew them back into their garden).
If they are very heavily wet, I'd pop a note through their door and say that you've noticed they are drying clothes on the wooden fences and they will end up rotting through the wood over time. Include in the note a link to buy a nice rotary line so this wont happen.

I feel so angry!!!!

Queen - take them down and get rid.

'Washing? What do you mean? Why would it be hung over into my garden? You wouldn't be doing that anyway surely?

I’ve got their landlords number.....I’m so tempted to send him this photo and get him to tell his residents to stop drying their clothes on our fence!!!

Do it!
What's wrong with people?
WASHING WARS!

@QueenofmyPrinces that's so gross. I don't get why people hang their washing like that? My neighbours do it on their front wall. I can't dry properly like that? And also walls / fences are dirty!

Wow!!!

Fences aren't clean! Birds sit and shit on them.

@QueenofmyPrinces - in relation to this:
The worst thing was that it was windy yesterday and four items of clothing had blown off the fence and were lying on our lawn - including a pair of man’s pants!!!!
I'd either throw everything back onto their lawn or gather it up and throw it away. Either way it's no longer your problem.

Sorry OP, but I have to say thank you - this thread has cheered me up no end hilarious!

Thanks for the warning @Mummyoflittledragon. I'll look it up.

@QueenofmyPrinces - Seems like the perfect time to water your lawn. If you have one of this rotating water sprinklers, even better. It does spray water around quite nicely