Panicked and hid in the wardrobe - window cleaner

[Rose789]

House to myself for the first time in ages. Started deep cleaning the upstairs and dancing and singing (badly) having a glorious time.
Pulled everything out of my wardrobe in our bedroom so I could sort through everything.
Sitting on the floor beside the open wardrobe screeching along to 90’s pop looked up and the window cleaner was on his ladders at the window. I just absolutely panicked and lord knows why but my brain decided it would be wise to make me crawl into the wardrobe and shut the door.
Like he clearly saw me - we maintained eye contact for a good 30 seconds.
The poor man perched on top of his ladders watching a fat lass crawl on her hands in knees into a wardrobe awkwardly pause and then start flailing a white chubby arm around trying desperately to reach the doors to close them. All whilst the spice girls sang how if you want to be my lover you gotta get with my friends.
Sat in there for at least half an hour to make sure he had gone before I dared come out. Now I need to move 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’d have flung open a window (not the one he was cleaning, obviously, couldn’t fancy killing the window cleaner, they’re a swine to source!) and sung at him. He might have joined in. He might really like the Spice Girls.

He's still there. He's waiting for you.

You’re still in there at 10pm?

I screamed at mine once. Dd1 was a baby, we had had a really bad night and while she was napping I must have dozed off on the settee. Woken up by a strange scraping noise at the window and cautiously opened the curtains only to come face to face with the window cleaner. I jumped and screamed. He seems to have got over it but I did something similar to the Betterware man and he has avoided our house ever since

@Cherrysoup everyone loves the spice girls I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have enjoyed that. I’m glad you clarified you don’t go around trying to knock window cleaners off their ladders though
@MrsTerryPratchett he’ll probably come back tomorrow for part 2 knowing my luck

Don't you know when they are coming?

@LibrariesGiveUsPower45321 haha imagine! I could just tell dh I was recreating the lion the witch and the wardrobe I guess. But no this was this afternoon.
@SnugglySnerd oh no!!! You can’t blame the better ware man

@Elouera his schedule is an utter mystery. I have tried to work it out- home working and verrrry bored but he’s an enigma

Mine saw me naked once. You can’t be seen from the window so I’d wondered through after a shower and dropped the towel while rummaging for an outfit. Curtains open. Then heard that horrible squeak of the sponge and turned to see him standing there quickly slapping on the soap and pretending he couldn’t see in. I was a teenager and hid under the desk 😱 what’s worse I then had to answer the door later on to pay him I was the only one in 😳

Exactly the kind of thing I'd have done. You can either style it out or move.

Without fail the gardener surprises me, last visit I was sat at the patio window with no pants on. Eye contact was made, panic set it and I casually stood up and walked off like I wasn't in my underwear. DH almost died of second hand embarrassment 😂

@TheNinny oh lord you 100% win!

@majesticallyawkward I like your style! I would have ended up borrowing the gardeners shovel and digging a literal hole to hide my naked legs in

Could be worse OP. At least you didn't hide in a fridge....

The Amazon man knocked and left a parcel this morning. I watched him go down the drive to his van and went downstairs to pick it up. I only had on a short jammie top and pants.
I presumed he'd got in his van and driven off but he was standing looking at the door.
I stood there in my knickers and gave him the thumbs up

Tell him you went to Narnia?

HAHAHAHA

I suppose you styled it out, after a fashion!

I’m sure that he has seen it all before. George Formby knew all about the window cleaning biz 100 years ago: for a nosey Parker it’s an interesting job. That is why window cleaners are required to sign the official secrets act.

Our window cleaners also work to a mysterious schedule. Mine caught me sitting on the bed in my dressing gown at 8 am, scratching my right nipple. He calmly carried on as if nothing had happened, which is the correct protocol. I sat still and pretended to read until he moved on to the next window. The incident will never be mentioned again.

"DH almost died of second hand embarrassment"😂
That just made me Mutley laugh!

OP my window cleaners are the same, totally random when they turn up!

For a nosey parker it's an interesting job

This is brilliant, you need to pretend it never happened except for a knowing smile next time you see him.

Ours is totally random too, as far as I know. Luckily he doesn't use ladders though, just a very long pole (oo err) so no peering into bedroom windows (downside is they aren't as well cleaned obviously).

We hadn’t been in our house long and hadn’t got round to curtains. Didn’t know when they were coming.It was hot, I was butt naked under a sheet (hung over to fuck). I was dozing and heard the tell tale creak of the ladder and the splash of sponge on glass. I hid under the sheet and rolled off the bed on the opposite side to the window. When I told dh he didn’t stop laughing for days.
Until a few weeks later and he walked into the bedroom straight from the shower to see window cleaner looking into the room through our new, open curtains.

You all need to get yourself window cleaners who use long pole brushes - still slightly terrifying when you’re half naked and a brush appears at the window but then you get the joy of the relief that it’s just a brush

What’s the AIBU?

30 seconds?? That’s a really long stare. Are you sure it was that long?

DH has terrified our window cleaner twice, once dh was having a bath heard some noises got out to look walked naked to see the window cleaner. The second time DH used to hang his dry suit to dry after scuba diving in the garage he'd left the garage door half open window cleaner turned up and could just see a pair of legs hanging, I'm surprised he still comes to clean the windows.

@SylHellais

What’s the AIBU?

Quick, run and tell Miss!!!