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AIBU?

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To be mortified and not able to look my neighbours in the eye now

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TheWindowIsOpen · 17/07/2019 08:51

So last night DH and I were... Y'know.

We got pretty far into it when I realised the bedroom window was wide open.

I am horrified. We live on a quiet street so no traffic noise to drown it out and I can often hear neighbours conversations etc... if their windows are open.

I wasn't screaming like a pornstar or anything but I was definitely enjoying myself and there were some unmistakable 'moans'

In the heat everyone has been leaving their windows open and I can't believe I forgot. I'm usually a shy person but enjoy a chat with my neighbours when I see them so I now feel utterly embarrassed.

I don't even know what my AIBU is. Hoping someone might have an even more embarrassing story to share perhaps?

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TheWindowIsOpen · 17/07/2019 10:04

I would be embarrassed as our house has no front garden straight onto footpath

Ours doesn't either! It's just a row of houses straight from the footpath with all bedrooms at the front. I can quite often hear neighbours talking in their rooms if we both have our windows open so that's why I think they likely will have heard!

Thanks MN! I'm just a very shy MNetter who clearly embarrasses too easily!

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TheWindowIsOpen · 17/07/2019 10:05

I think mark got a pet cow, I can hear it

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ThatCurlyGirl · 17/07/2019 10:19

My exes older sister walked in on us when I was on top. At lunchtime. On a school day.

Already a cringe situation but made worse as everyone involved just froze except for eyes darting around the people involved 😂

Nothing was said soon enough so she just really slowly closed the door but still facing us so I can still picture her face as disappearing but by bit as she shut it. Effectively she shut the door in her own face!

We were troopers and got back to it - we were 17 and had to get back to our schools in time for afternoon classes. Mission accomplished.

SerenDippitty · 17/07/2019 10:27

I remember having sex on a warm summer Sunday morning with the windows open not realising that next door neighbour was outside washing his car. 😳 Not our neighbour any more thank goodness.

Flyinggeese · 17/07/2019 10:30

Thing is OPs like this often end with 'so tell me your embarrassing stories to make me feel better'. Just why? How does that help?

I wet myself - tell me when this happened to you too. I had a period accident at work - so humiliating - tell me when this has happened to you. Etc etc.

Unfortunately when/if they are genuine this kind of request just makes the OP look like they're fishing for titilation.

Justaboy · 17/07/2019 10:33

Have you noticed, that people are still having sex?
All the denouncement, had absolutely no effect.
Parents and counselors, constantly scorn them.
But people are still having sex and nothing seems to stop them.
Do you realize that people are still having sex?
They've been told not to, perhaps they are perplexed.
When you see them holding hands, they're making future plans to engage in the activity.
Do you understand me?
People are still having sex.
Lust keeps on lurking.
Nothing makes them stop.
This aids things not working.
People are still having sex.
It's been going on for quite awhile.
Perhaps it's quite fashionable.
It hasn't gone out of style.
It's a fact that people are still having sex.
It's rather obvious, it's just what one expects.
The evidence is all around.
That everyone in every town has had it one time, or another in their life.
At this very moment people are still having sex.
In a downtown condo, or street in the projects.
Although you can't see them or hear their breathing sounds.
Someone in this world is having sex right now.
People are still having sex! (x4)
Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!
Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!
People are still having sex.
Lust keeps on lurking.
Nothing makes them stop.
This aids things not working.
People are still having sex.
It's been going on for quite awhile.
Perhaps it's quite fashionable.
It hasn't gone out of style.
People are still having sex (x4)
Sex

HeadintheiClouds · 17/07/2019 10:34

Indeed, Flying. Never understand what anybody claiming to be mortified by something that happened in public gets out of further sharing the tale across the Internet.
Attention seeker extraordinaire.

Enclume · 17/07/2019 10:39

Hoping someone might have an even more embarrassing story to share perhaps?

Yes...I was once asked to recite at a wedding from Book 4 of the Aeneid, in Virgil's original Latin, natch!

Only I must have had one port too many as I got mixed up and instead started spouting Book IV of the Iliad instead! Imagine! Instead of Dido's torrid romance with Aeneas, there I was recounting the conference of the gods on Mount Olympus discussing the Trojan War. Hideously inapt for a wedding!

Worse still... even though all the guests spoke Latin, only 2/3 were conversant in Homeric Greek, so it was a bit of a faux pas from that point of view, and the Mother of the Bride stormed out because she does not accept that Homer even existed (her doubts about the Bard had also led to a reading of Shakespeare's 116th Sonnet being scrapped).

I was sooooooooooooooooo mortified when I realised what I had done and stick to small beer now if I am likely to be called upon to give any kind of oration or recital in ANY dead language!

Flyinggeese · 17/07/2019 10:43

Enclume there should be some kind of government scheme for when that kind of thing happens (easy done) whereby a new identity can be issued and all relocation costs covered.

(Absolutely brilliant).

Rachelover40 · 17/07/2019 10:44

I doubt anyone could hear you moan, they'd have to be pretty close to do so. Stop worrying about it.

Lotuslots · 17/07/2019 10:48

Get over it.

Flyinggeese · 17/07/2019 10:49

The neighbours must hear me moan loudly all the time - like when the binmen put my green wheelie bin back on someone else's path and I need to go and find it. Or when yet again someone has left changing the loo roll to me.

ItsBloodyFreezingg · 17/07/2019 10:52

Thing is OPs like this often end with 'so tell me your embarrassing stories to make me feel better'. Just why? How does that help?

Some of the funniest threads I've read on here have been because other people have joined in and shared similar embarrassing and funny stories about what happened to them. It's hardly a new prospect or that difficult to understand.

Never understand what anybody claiming to be mortified by something that happened in public gets out of further sharing the tale across the Internet. Attention seeker extraordinaire.

Get a sense of humour maybe? It's easier to share things over the internet and have a laugh at yourself because no one knows who you are.

There are plenty of threads like this on MN. I've seen threads about posters shit, farts and other bodily fluids before. People share all sorts of unnecessary things on here to make people laugh, as a joke, to be light-hearted about an embarrassing situation.

MonstranceClock · 17/07/2019 10:53

@Rachellover40

I dont know, I heard my neighbour open a can of coke the other day! Pretty sure she'd hear me being boned.

EmeraldShamrock · 17/07/2019 10:53

I wouldn't worry about it. Maybe tell them you stayed with family last night, it was DH alone really give them something to gossip about.

EmeraldShamrock · 17/07/2019 10:57

Not a sex story. I was in work the weekend with a male colleague my stomach was full of wind, it was my time of the month.
He got his keys to go the garage, after he left I farted then again and again, they were awful, he forgot his wallet and came back for it mid smell.

CollaterlyS1sters · 17/07/2019 10:59

@Enclume OMG that is absolutely mortifying! I'm cringing for you!

My worst one was probably when I called Derrida a structuralist at my hen night. I can still remember the colour draining from my bridesmaids' faces as it dawned on me what I'd said.

I had to call the wedding off, obvs. Still can barely cope with the memory.

ThatCurlyGirl · 17/07/2019 11:04

@CollaterlyS1sters I like you 😂

katseyes7 · 17/07/2019 11:09

l've heard my neighbour and her boyfriend having sex. He's noisier than her. Fortunately it doesn't last long.

katseyes7 · 17/07/2019 11:11

My friend calls her neighbour Meg Ryan. As in the fake orgasm scene on When Harry Met Sally. She says it's so loud and 'put on' it can't possibly be real.

4cats2kids · 17/07/2019 11:28

I used to live in a flat. One afternoon, on a hot summers day, I had a noisy three hour lesbian sex session with my girlfriend. When we had finished, we both smelt a strong odour of smoke. We then realised the window was open and the old man downstairs was smoking in his garden below.

The sex must have been so good even the neighbours needed a fag afterwards. This amuses me. I have no shame.

dustyparadeground · 17/07/2019 11:29

Fuck off Daily Mail

CollaterlyS1sters · 17/07/2019 11:32

Oh god you're right. They are going to LOVE @Enclume 's cringeworthy Iliad story.

DC3dilemma · 17/07/2019 11:48

@TheVanguardSix

Sex. It’s part of living. Don’t even sweat it, OP.

I don’t know why, but I hear that in Flop’s voice:

Sex. It’s part of living. No big thing, Bing.

cakesandphotos · 17/07/2019 11:50

@DC3dilemma 😂 sex. It's a Bing thing

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