What caused this mysterious wet patch?

[EggBoxes]

As for most of us, yesterday was very hot and dry, so I was surprised to notice a wet patch in the front garden, almost but not quite, a puddle. This was about 5pm. It had a bit of an oily glaze to it, and was about the area of a plastic bag. The leaves on the side of the privet hedge near the patch were also visible wet. The liquid was odourless and tasteless, but felt a bit oily.

Can anyone explain what this was?

I thought cat wee/spray would be smelly and the dog would have shown some interest. Also, the camera would have recorded a cat there.

@BoreOfWhabylon DP (more of an ornithologist than me) replies, "but it didn't smell fishy and we don't really get eagles around here". This is his serious reply, by the way.

@Alwaysinpain

Please tell me you're not one of those people who runs their finger round the rim of the toilet 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

One of those people?? This is a thing?

Antifreeze has a very sweet taste and is generally brightly coloured. Neat glycol is colourless but has the sweet taste.

YES! SEE! That's why tasting it tentatively was a wise move.

Passing cyclist emptying out a water bottle with electrolytes?

Child with super soaker?

Spray would be - wee wouldn't. (Aubrey's puddle of piss is often mistaken for water till I go for the sponge and get the slight viscosity.)

But the camera as you say should have picked up somebody else's geriatric tom cat siphoning the python.

Could be a cat, sprayed the shrub and did a wee.

My very ladylike little cat occasionally does that. It doesn't smell.

When I am King, people who don't RTFT before commenting will be first up against the wall.

@EggBoxes

I thought cat wee/spray would be smelly and the dog would have shown some interest. Also, the camera would have recorded a cat there.

@BoreOfWhabylon DP (more of an ornithologist than me) replies, "but it didn't smell fishy and we don't really get eagles around here". This is his serious reply, by the way.

Fresh fish should not smell fishy and you said that you get helicopters and RAF aircraft.

Pelicans, I tell you.

@EggBoxes

Yes, I plucked all of the leaves off the hedge, and squeezed the pee liquid in to a glass and drunk it down. Then, I got on my hands and knees and licked the concrete path dry.

I am, however, still none the wiser of what it was.

I have relayed that to DP, @BoreOfWhabylon.

He replies that we don't really get that many pelicans in East Yorkshire though. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my life.

@EggBoxes I'm a bit like you, and also would have licked it.

Once I licked an unidentified red mark on my window. It didn't taste of much but when I mentioned the mark to my DP, he told me it was bird poo and the birds had bren eating berries - whoops!

I didn't tell him I tried it 😂🙈

If it were my area it would probably be fox pee.

But it could be the water off a fish dropped by a passing heron (true story).

Think it’s most likely a leaking pipe.

🤣

I love that you tasted it 🤣🤣🤣

@EggBoxes

I have relayed that to DP, *@BoreOfWhabylon*.

He replies that we don't really get that many pelicans in East Yorkshire though. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my life.

Tell him pelicans are renowned for being stealthy!

Or it could have lost its bearings and wandered off course, like this one

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-36259924

I know someone who Weil’s Disease got from a bird bath, so be careful.

I'm reading this thread in conjunction with the bucket fanny bath water thread and I have a theory! Had you recently taken a bath and then lingered on your path?

I give up.

You're just going to have to move house, OP.

@NickMyLipple lol! Brilliant. Lickers Unite!

Ok. So top contenders are something fallen from an aircraft; a slow leaking pipe from below or a lost pelican?

Had a car been parked over the patch at all? Could it be condensing fluid from air conditioning? (ours used to leak)

😂🤣

Thanks for this OP

Ghost wee

Odorless
Colourless
Slightly oily
Camera wouldn't pick it up

Mystery solved!

Could your dog have sneezed on the leaves?

A large burst bubble? We add glycerine to our mixture.

Whilst I can’t say that I would taste the liquid, I certainly don’t think you are that weird. Made me think of House.

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats

I was just thinking of ice dropping off the fuselage.

Yeah, ditto.

Stray water balloon/ water pistol stream from neighbouring kids?