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AIBU?

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Washing darked on

26 replies

Paleninteresting · 12/07/2020 23:32

In the current circumstances I Aibu to forget my washing has been darked on and quietly put it away?

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Iverunoutofnames · 12/07/2020 23:33

Spider willies (do I win bingo?).

LullabyTime · 12/07/2020 23:37

At your own risk OP.... that way lies great peril 🤭

Paleninteresting · 12/07/2020 23:37

I know, spider willies are a concern but such a big concern just now? Or have my standards dropped too low.

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p0rridge · 12/07/2020 23:45

I don't think spiders can get coronavirus so their willies should be fine. Least of our worries right now - go for it.

relievedlady · 12/07/2020 23:51

Still have a load on my washing line currently being darked on and touched by many spider willies judging by the little webs inside some of the pegs 😳

newyeardelurker · 12/07/2020 23:54

YANBU.

p0rridge · 12/07/2020 23:54

@relievedlady sounds like your spiders are having an orgy, what with their multiple willies. Despicable.

relievedlady · 12/07/2020 23:56

GrinGrin

rosamacrose · 13/07/2020 00:00

Found a flying ant on my white towel.
Also, a suspicious spot on my white shirt...
Afraid now of infestation Shock

Chatons · 13/07/2020 00:02

My tea towels are being darked on right now. What if aliens want to reenact the nativity and use them as shepherds’ headdresses?

Fromage · 13/07/2020 00:07

Ghosts will be hiding in it, hidden in the fabric and ready to glide out when you're asleep and frighten the shit out of the cat and gather wanking spiders to whack one out on your tea towels and to fling wierdy floaty cobwebs on a bit of your ceiling that could not possibly have got cobwebby and to spread an evil curse upon your white goods that makes them all break down in the same week (Christmas, probably) and to summon the ghosts of darked on past and move them into your home which you will never be able to sell because it will always carry the faint whiff of arachnid jizz.

Or, y'know, it'll just be fine. Probably.

user1473878824 · 13/07/2020 00:08

I’m shaking my head in sadness and disgust. What have you become?

p0rridge · 13/07/2020 00:08

@Chatons Don't be silly - why would they be reenacting the Nativity in July?

CarrieMoonbeams · 13/07/2020 00:12

Just quietly move house, leave it for the next victims - oops, I mean owners - to deal with. Sad, but it's the only way.

Fatted · 13/07/2020 00:12

I let my washing get darked on last night. Put it away this morning. Heaven forbid.

notagoodidea · 13/07/2020 00:13

At your own peril.....

FizzyGreenWater · 13/07/2020 00:13

Fantastic!!! The powers of the night. Gather them in with a skip in your step tomorrow morning and be gleeful at the thought of all that midnight power pulsating in the drawers

Lou898 · 13/07/2020 00:21

I had no idea what you were talking about. 🙈😂😂

magicmarker11 · 13/07/2020 00:27

An old neighbour of mine must've had this issue.

One day she put some washing on her line. I remember it well. There was some pants, a bra, a couple of t shirts and a hoody.

She. Never. Took. It. In.

We moved our around 6 months later, largely thanks to her poor, fat, unwalked Basset hound and it's penchant for barking 16 hours a day.

By the time we left the washing was half green with mildew. It was shocking. Who puts clothes on the line and just never brings them in?

Chatons · 13/07/2020 01:07

p0rridge

(Sigh) EVERYBODY knows that Jesus was actually born in the summertime. In a timeshare stable on the Costa del Sol. Mary rode there on her pet donkey, Hotey.

magicmarker11

Was she, like, dead and stuff?

user1473878824 · 13/07/2020 01:11

@Chatons God. Now I can’t stop thinking about Bombhead’s mum in Hollyoaks. I doubt a teenage boy even thought about things getting darked on, never mind going mouldy. So much to think about.

Chatons · 13/07/2020 07:52

I had to look that up about Bombhead’s mum. Grim!

Soubriquet · 13/07/2020 07:54

I told my dh about the spider willies and washing being darked on

He laughed at me

Last time he got his washing in...there was a spider in it Grin

I laughed at him!

He hasn’t learned his lesson though

Paleninteresting · 13/07/2020 16:24

Apologies for my absence. I was re-washing the load. @Fromage convinced me it was too risky to leave them. My margarita informed risk assessment excluded ghosts, aaarrrrhhhhh. That did it for me.

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magicmarker11 · 13/07/2020 17:46

@Chatons nope she was heard and sighted during this time. Just entirely unbothered by the clothes rotting away on her washing line..