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 🤦🏻‍♀️

This is something I'd do, OP.
I'd sing and hide in angst haha

I was once woken by the window cleaner. Sat bolt upright and gasped. Then went back under the covers and hid until he’d left.

No way did you sit in there for half an hour

Does he clean the windows with a cotton bud?

@UhtredRagnarson

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

That’s kind of what I was wondering too. I mean, yes, deliberate misuse of AIBU ‘for traffic’ or attention-seeking to get into Classics does grate on me a bit at times and this does seem a particularly egregious example of that.

This is nothing!

My friend (early twenties) stayed over at mine once and saw a window cleaner at the bathroom while she was in the shower. It was an upstairs window so he couldn't disappear quickly. She exited the shower (which had privacy lines) and did a little rain dance in the nude (visible from the footprints still on the carpet when we returned to the scene of the trauma - she had pirouetted several times while shrieking) before diving into the hot press.

The window cleaner was a devoutly religious man and probably came close to death in his haste to descend.

I also picked up on the 30 seconds. Count ‘em down and imagine staring at someone that long and then crawling into a wardrobe!

He would have been down his ladder and back on the motorway by the end of 30 seconds!

Thanks all for the laugh . I am lying here laughing like a loon.
Reminds me of the film Confessions of a window cleaner lol
Thankfully my window cleaner now uses a long handled brush and hose, and sometimes it is a female one .

🤣🤣🤣 that’s made my day OP

My windows are so bad I was thinking of hiring a window cleaner... I'm thinking not inn held chance now

I don’t have a window cleaner because A. I don’t want anyone looking at me when I’m in my house and B. I don’t want anyone judging the mess in my house through the windows. Everyone else in my street seems to get their windows cleaned though. Do people tidy up before they come, leave the curtains closed on window cleaning day or just not care about people peering in the windows and judging them?

My colleague told me a story once…she was naked apart from a T-shirt at her sink getting a glass of water when window cleaner appeared. He could only see her top half and the had a chat. She needed him to go away so she could walk away (Otherwise he’d see everything) but he thought that as she was lingering there she wanted to keep chatting….she said it was actually painful and she was aware hugely that her Fanny was uncovered!

@Rose789, maybe he just wants to reallyreallyreallyreally wanna zig-a-zig-ah!

The fella has probably seen some1 singing along to 90s pop while tidying a 100 times an never thought anything off it.However he probably thought wtf when he seen you crawling past to hide in a wardrobe surprised he never called for help haha.

My lovely window cleaner uses an extendable broom, but he cleans the ground floor windows by hand. He saw my elderly neighbour lying on the floor once and called an ambulance. So window cleaners taking notice of what's going on inside is a good thing.

Elderly = in her 90's. I know some people on Mumsnet describe those in their 60's as elderly but that's a whole different thread.

Oh and she was fine, back home later that day and baking the window cleaner a cake to say thank you. She now has careline in place as well.

Crawled into a wardrobe instead of going into a room where he wasn't doing the windows? What??

@SylHellais

What’s the AIBU?

Ah, you're one of those OP

My window cleaner has almost caught me naked. I had just had a shower (downstairs, next to kitchen) and went to kitchen to get a glass of water before going up to put clothes on. I ducked and stayed hidden behind the kitchen island for the whole duration of his cleaning, moving around the island as he did the windows. It was ridiculous hiding in your own house and mortifying too!

My window cleaner turns up randomly, one time I was sat on the toilet, which is right next to the window (which was slightly open) as he climbed up the ladder. I casually shut the window before he got to the top and dived off the toilet

If you've got it all wrong, its supposed to be the window cleaner that hides in the wardrobe when your DH comes home early

So glad my window cleaner uses a long pole and hose method. I always hide upstairs when he’s washing the windows.

I panicked and hid in the wardrobe once when I was changing in my bedroom and heard the sound of the decorator coming up the ladder outside my window (I thought he was on his lunchbreak). I got dressed inside and waited to hear him climb back down.... I waited and waited then thought, this is ridiculous - I'm hiding in a cupboard in my own house! So I emerged suddenly with a casual "hi" and he nearly fell off he was so surprised

I'm laughing so hard picturing this! My lovely window cleaner calls the night before now, but that could be because I once got irritable with him for wanting payment in cash when I had none in the house.

My window cleaners work in pairs. One does the front of the house and the other the back. Takes them hardly any time, but there's definitely nowhere to hide.

@VeganVeal

If you've got it all wrong, its supposed to be the window cleaner that hides in the wardrobe when your DH comes home early

Nice one!