to be hiding from the window cleaner

[flitwit99]

Got the kids to school, went to the gym, drove home looking forward to an hour of sitting on the sofa watching tv, turned into our street and saw the window cleaners car.

So I can’t possibly slob on the sofa while he cleans the windows all around me. Our downstairs is quite open plan so I would be seen from many windows.

Also his social skills are not great. He talks like he’s following a script, like someone has once said to him “look for something to compliment about a person as a conversation opener”. In the past he has said “I like your gate”. Plain black metal gate, been there for the 15 years we’ve lived here. “I like your doorbell. Did you choose it yourself?”

Or he will say “I saw you sitting on the sofa” or “I saw you were cooking in the kitchen”. He’s not being creepy, again it’s like a slightly scripted conversation. Comment on something someone is doing as a conversation opener.

But he’s harmless, he’s just trying to earn a living, he does a good job, I don’t want to clean my own windows. I just don’t want to have to chat to him or lie about watching tv and seeing his face cleaning the windows. He also has to acknowledge me every single time he sees me. So every time I look up and see his cheery face through the glass he will wave and smile at me.

I usually try not to be in while he is here but I forgot he was coming today.

So I am in my car just round the corner hoping he is nearly finished. I need to stop being ridiculous and go home. Tell me to stop being ridiculous and go home.

I was once involved in some 'heavy petting' with my boyfriend in the spare room. We'd closed the curtains but they didn't quite meet in the middle. You can guess what happened... Fortunately we had all our clothes on but I don't know who was more horrified, him or us.

I avoided being seen completely by him after that.

YNBU- I detest making small talk with ANYONE. We're having a lot of renovation works on our house and I've just gone on mat leave and often I'll be wanting to potter round indoors but there's someone here and I don't feel comfortable it's bloody annoying!!!

Tell you have an awful migraine and you’re going to lie down in a darkened room. Close the curtains, turn the tv on low and slob out

Mine used to send a text the day before. One time he didn’t. I’d been working the night before so I was still asleep. In the summer, no curtains, in my birthday suit. The ladder outside woke me up, I assumed it was the neighbours (who can’t see in) stretched, rolled over flat on my back, stretched some more, opened my eyes...😳 window cleaner right there...both of us 😳😳. I FLED into the en-suite only to realise I had no clothes, no towels, nothing...just had to wait it out.

I still blush when I see him and I’m
sure it’s no coincidence he now uses a long handled window cleaner instead

I went home. Luckily he was nearly done. We chatted about the weather and how it's warmer than usual so no awkward moments today thank goodness. I got 45 minutes on the sofa with a cup of tea before I had to go and pick the kids up from school so all is well.

once me and my boyfriend were in bed of an afternoon making the most of being child free for a change and then all of a sudden the window cleaner popped up at the window. i dived under the duvet whilst my partner just lay there looking slightly dopey. thankfully the window cleaner quickly descended his ladder but i insisted my boyfriend went down to pay him because i was so embarrassed 😂 luckily he laughed it off and but now i always hide when the window cleaner comes!

I'd have turned my car round and driven off somewhere for a coffee without a second thought!

I work varied shifts so, if I am in when ours comes, chances are I am still in bed, in which case I don't move until he's gone, or I am wandering around in my dressing gown, in which case I hide somewhere until he's gone

I'd take my laptop and headphones to a coffee shop and netflix binge there!

The only time I would hide from ours was if I couldn't be arsed to go and walk round the corner to get cash out because I hadn't known he was coming (it's a fairly relaxed arrangement, he comes twice a month and fits it in between his better paying commercial bookings). After six years, though, he knows us well enough that he doesn't knock if it's at a time when I'll be slumped on the settee after work/sleeping in and will come back on another day - and if I am skint/without cash when he comes back, he usually says he'll take for it next time instead.

But he doesn't try to make conversation - he's here for about ten minutes and the most he's ever said is that we've got a clean in hand/that he's trying a different mix this time/he sloshed over the bins whilst he was here. If he were a 'talker' I'd have booked somebody else by now or opted for windows I couldn't see out of.

I've been known to give the window cleaner a big smile as i shut my curtains.........