To still want to hide from the window cleaner?

[KathrynOfArrogance]

So I used to have this system where if the window cleaner came on my day off I would stop drop and roll behind the sofa until he shoved a leaflet through the door and left
Then we moved the sofa so I would slide down the sofa, army crawl to under the window
Now I have a 5 month old that gives me away all the time rolling round in the middle of the floor, how inconsiderate!!

I don't have a window cleaner for this very reason.

This made me chuckle I used to feel guilty if I was sitting down when the window cleaner appeared so I used to dash around doing housework pretending I was so busy lol

This has to be way up there with not answering your door, not answering the phone, not allowing people in your bedroom, not liking visitors, not liking visiting people, and not liking going to social events.

Your window cleaner won't do anything but smile and wave or worst exchange a few pleasantries.

This is exactly why I no longer have a window cleaner! Loathe the thought that a random man is allowed to suddenly appear at my windows. No thanks.

I’m like madmumofteens-it felt very lady of the manor sitting down watching tv whilst paying someone else to do a job, so I’d then make myself look busy (or hide on the stairs) until he’d gone. Ridiculous really as all I was doing was paying for a service!

The window cleaner is looking at the windows , not through them. If you're not convinced, go outside and try it for yourself. You can't clean a window without looking at the glass.

I don’t have a window cleaner now but I did the stop drop and roll as well, or the strategic crouching by the sofa or bed where I can’t be seen.

It just makes me feel so awkward to be at home while someone is working.

I'm really relieved by this thread. I thought it was just me. I always hide from the Window Cleaner... it makes me very uncomfortable when they are doing the windows of the room I am in (usually the conservatory which has the most bloody windows obvs.) - it is something to do with ingrained manners of social interaction I think for me. Like I should be engaging with him for the time he is visible to me and not ignoring him? Then I start to overthink it and start feeling self conscious and awkward! It is ridiculous.

siblingrevelryagain I end up doing exactly the same as you and "act" being very busy - for the same reason as hate the thought of doing nothing while someone does a job for me.

My window cleaner always picks the day and time each month that I am still in my pjs, not showered and am having a lazy morning before tidying up the mess that has accumulated since dinner the night before (always surprisingly huge given only me, DH, DD and the dog!)

I like to hide from mine in shame that he's seen my house in a massive state, me in my pyjamas whilst trying to deal with a toddler and newborn and because he had to knock and request money when I thought DH was paying him online but hadn't for about 3 months.

I sometimes think it'd be easier for me to get up the ladder and do it myself for all of the anxiety his presence causes me.

Just after I had DS2 the midwife arrived to check us over. He was banging on the door for her to move her car whilst she was examining me, luckily I'd closed the curtains. When I explained that the midwife was here and that it wasn't convenient right now he went ballistic. I said I wasn't in control of the time she arrived etc.

He'd somehow managed to get his ladders around her car (this was to get in, not out btw he wasn't stuck anywhere), he knew she was still there but knocked on the door again. When I answered it again he told me he'd finished, I thanked him and apologised for the inconvenience, I said I'd just had a baby and he said "what, another one! Bloody hell" and walked away. FWIW I had 2 DC, so I have no idea what that response was about.

He's a very odd person.

I used to hide from mine after he appeared at the bedroom window whilst I was in the middle of a particularly enthusiastic session with my then DP. I’m not sure how long he’d been there before we noticed, but he was staring right in. No covers over us to hide anything.

This was over 20 years ago and I still when I think about it.

I was very glad when we moved to another town.

I think I got away with it yesterday as I took the "look busy" approach and scooped the baby up and started swaying him like I was trying to comfort him
cue very independent 5 month old squirming to be put down
Also worth mentioning as others have said, he only ever comes when I have my towelling turban on after a shower!!