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To want my leg of lamb back?

153 replies

Milkshakebreaks · 03/08/2024 18:53

Whacky neighbour strikes again.

She is a nice woman. A bit eccentric.

She saw a dog roaming the estate and thought it was mine. It wasn't. She panicked, she said, and reached for my door and went in, shouting my name

My actual dog, a very low prey drive GH, approached her wagging. Luckily, he didn't see her as a threat and harm her.

My neighbour said she panicked then and tried a dog treat but the roaming dog wasn't interested. She then went into my fridge and got out a LEG OF LAMB 😒

She is seen on video camera attached to the house, waving down the dog with the leg of lamb in hand, waving it like she is in Ollivander's wand shop

The dog wonders off elsewhere and she's seen again throwing the leg of lamb into the nearby hedges.

AIBU to want it back or paid for? Or is she too unhinged to ask this? Not sure what to do. She has posted a picture of the dog on the estate FB group. No claims for the dog yet... who on footage and in her photo, is not a GH. It's very clearly a tiny terrier type 🙄

As I say, she is a really friendly neighbour but somewhat OTT, dramatic and loud. She has a 19 year old daughter who is lovely. And a polite and very normal 15 year old son. Both nothing like her loud and overly familiar ways

My door was left open by me as I had run 3 doors down to give my lovely neighbour some bits I was passing onto her

I have no idea why she would lie or try and enter my house. She genuinely looked like she was trying to get the dog

OP posts:
LaMarschallin · 03/08/2024 20:54

Get your own back.
Put the video from your camera on EweTube.

bruffin · 03/08/2024 20:57

Calliopespa · 03/08/2024 20:43

Yeah whose short story was that?

roald dahl

Salumthecat · 03/08/2024 21:00

MummyLongLegsss · 03/08/2024 20:29

She saw a dog roaming the estate and thought it was mine. It wasn't. She panicked, she said, and reached for my door and went in, shouting my name

My actual dog, a very low prey drive GH, approached her wagging. Luckily, he didn't see her as a threat and harm her.

My neighbour said she panicked then and tried a dog treat but the roaming dog wasn't interested. She then went into my fridge and got out a LEG OF LAMB

So let's just look at the action here.

Neighbour sees dog roaming and thinks it's yours (Why? Is the question.)
She goes into your house - front door open - and sees your dog.
She panics (why would she panic about seeing a dog wandering around?))
She goes back outside to the roaming dog with a doggy treat.
Where did she get that treat? Was it your dog's?
So she comes back into your house to explore your fridge.
She opens your fridge and there just happens to be THE LEG OF LAMB that she needs, having see it on a film as a way to tempt stray dogs back.
The dog isn't interested so your neighbour throws the lamb into a hedge.

THE END

Don't call us, we'll call you.

👏

Edited

I want to know about the dog treat as well (amongst many other questions)

She panics a lot over this dog but then when it wasn’t interested in the lamb lets it wander off.

“The dog wonders off elsewhere and she's seen again throwing the leg of lamb into the nearby hedges”

She must get the dog back though to post on Facebook.

“She has posted a picture of the dog on the estate FB group. No claims for the dog yet...”

OP has obviously spoken to this neighbour judging by this: “My neighbour said she panicked then and tried a dog treat but the roaming dog wasn't interested”
Why didn’t OP ask her why she took the lamb and ask get to go and get it back? As a pp pointed out it’d be vacuum packed and the dog didn’t touch it.

I’m also confused about what she lied about?
“I have no idea why she would lie or try and enter my house. She genuinely looked like she was trying to get the dog”

There isn’t any part of the story that mentions her lying. She appears to openly admit she went into OP’s house panicking about dogs.

I guess like the communal fridge we won’t get any answers, I’m starting to think that’s what the aim
of these posts is, to keep us wondering forever.

JudgeJ · 03/08/2024 21:01

MummyLongLegsss · 03/08/2024 20:31

Could this be a Midsomer Murder or Vera?

Pretty certain it was one of the Tales of the Unexpected, the Roald Dahl series, much earlier that Midsomer Murders and Vera.

Cherrysoup · 03/08/2024 21:01

wtaf am I reading?! Is this for real? If so, as a pp says, she owes you the money for the lamb toot sweet! Coming into your house is extremely odd. Not locking your door is really odd, even if only going 3 doors down.

Was the lamb wrapped? Could it not be retrieved?

vodkaredbullgirl · 03/08/2024 21:06

This thread is mint 😁

Salumthecat · 03/08/2024 21:08

MummyLongLegsss · 03/08/2024 20:22

This is where the OP messed up her continuity in the series of Whacky Neighbours.

Here, she says 'Whacky neighbour strikes again'.
When someone challenged her on ' You've another thread you started yesterday about a neighbour' the OP came back with 'That was a different one.'

So, sadly, she needs to get her story straight.

Don't think this will make Netflix, sadly. Not without a lot of work.

I really want to see the other thread now!

Maybe this is a series and we might have a post about a different neighbour tomorrow?

OP could come home and find her neighbour in her bath or trying on her best frocks.

You are correct though that some continuity issues need working on first.

grumpygrape · 03/08/2024 21:09

I've had a rubbish day but this thread has made me LOL so much my husband thinks I'm using proscribed substances.

FinalInstructionstotheAudience · 03/08/2024 21:10

quantumbutterfly · 03/08/2024 19:17

How odd. op I think you've been fleeced. The shear nerve of it. I wouldn't gambol on getting your money back. Baaaad luck.

The (mint) sauce of some people...

FinalInstructionstotheAudience · 03/08/2024 21:14

Blisterly · 03/08/2024 19:24

Retaliate buy going to hers and tempting a neighbours cat with a side of salmon and throwing it in the village fish pond.

As a warning to the local fish? The Codfather

MooonDreamz · 03/08/2024 21:16

I think she was out of order and yes you should ask. even if your door was unlocked presumably it was closed, she was wrong to thing the dog was yours and shouldn't have just walked into your house!

FinalInstructionstotheAudience · 03/08/2024 21:17

godmum56 · 03/08/2024 19:38

not in mine, its full of booze and tortoise food

Wot, no booze for the turtle?

Omlettes · 03/08/2024 21:25

JudgeJ · 03/08/2024 20:31

I hadn't seen this post when I wrote mine, glad to see other fans of TotU on here!

Well then it was an instant moment of complete synchronicity.❤
Our English teacher who wore very very tight purple jeans , read it to us when we were impressionable 13 year olds...

Calliopespa · 03/08/2024 21:42

FinalInstructionstotheAudience · 03/08/2024 21:10

The (mint) sauce of some people...

Yes the woman needs LAMBasting.

Blondeshavemorefun · 03/08/2024 21:57

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Why was my reply deleted

Nothing against guidelines

vodkaredbullgirl · 03/08/2024 21:59

Blondeshavemorefun · 03/08/2024 21:57

Why was my reply deleted

Nothing against guidelines

Same with mine and half the others who replied.

secretfreckle · 03/08/2024 22:05

Omlettes · 03/08/2024 20:11

Have either of you been reading Roald Dahls "Lamb to the Slaughter" or picking mushrooms?
Bwaha ha ha😂

Exactly what I was thinking!

Blondeshavemorefun · 03/08/2024 22:06

Weird @vodkaredbullgirl thanks for letting me know

gentileschi · 03/08/2024 22:20

Please put the video of her waving the lamb leg on TikTok with an accompanying story. Maybe you'll get enough likes to earn a leg of lamb (no idea how people make money on it, I just want to see the footage).

godmum56 · 03/08/2024 22:37

FinalInstructionstotheAudience · 03/08/2024 21:17

Wot, no booze for the turtle?

Nope she is tortoisetotal, the booze is for me

LikeAFineMerlot · 03/08/2024 23:39

Calliopespa · 03/08/2024 20:43

Yeah whose short story was that?

Roald Dahls

MummyLongLegsss · 04/08/2024 08:22

This thread is still here?

Georgyporky · 04/08/2024 08:25

Lock your door

Sparklfairy · 04/08/2024 08:27

I think the key question is, is the lamb still in the hedge.

Or was it all a cunning ploy to steal your lamb in plain sight?

Fraaahnces · 04/08/2024 08:28

Surely she just nicked the bloody lamb..,