Neighbours washing - diagram included!

[Timetogetgone]

I live in a ground floor maisonette and my garden backs on to my kitchen and I have windows from my bedroom (and bathroom) facing the garden. The weather has obviously been lush all day and I myself have done every single last piece of washing (feeling smug).

Just peered out my window to look at my flowers and seen my upstairs neighbours have hung their washing over our joining fence.

Not the crime of the century but it’s only just been hung up now at 8pm. It’s all overlapping and pieces of clothing are on the dirty, bird pooed fence.

I would love to show you a photo but it would be super putting outting.

To the ones who’ll go for the throat. It’s ok. This post is in jest but equally I can see my neighbours pants hanging off our joining fence - ew. Haha.

Am I the only one who thought the neighbours had put a diaphragm on the washing line 🙈

Timetogetgone Awwww bless you, I wouldn’t like that at all but at the preservation of neighbourly harmony, I don’t think there’s a lot you can do

And the wife must be the idiot who let him.

Misandry is sometimes rife on MN 😄😃

I thought you were going to say they hung their washing over yours on your line initially. I was fuming on your behalf 🤣🤣🤣

Definitely an idiot for marrying an incapable fool. 👍🏻

Unless the wife really did do it then the husband is an idiot for marrying her for being an incapable fool.

for fairness.

As a child the phrase I heard regularly was “a right dozy apeth” 🤣🤣🤣

It was the diagram that draw me in - they are always most helpful,
bird poo, stained by the fence, splinters (& spider willys) washing does not sound ideal , plus you view is now marred , I do hope this is a one off

I have two long lines under my carport and I often leave washing out at night - light rain makes no difference to drying so worth the risk!

I had a housemate that would always be confused when he’d go out at 11pm to get his washing in and it was wetter than when he’d hung it out. Drove me nuts because he’d hog the washing line for days at a time in the constant cycle of his clothes drying but not being brought in before they got damp again.

I guess they haven’t got a washing line yet?

Yes this has all the hallmarks of male weaponised incompetence!

West Riding is West Yorkshire surely? (Sorry, pedantic off topic comment!)

I don't understand putting washing on a fence... that'll get it dirty again.

The spiders willies things I find even funnier, because I know spiders haven't got willies...

It's much, much worse. They have wee little hands... paws? (pedipalps) that they carry their sperm in to hand over to the lady spider (or sneakly stuff it somewhere...) and they're out there, rummaging in yer washing with their 'orrible little jizz-paws. Ugh!

Thoughts and prayers for the darked on washing.

May it rest in moonlight.

Ha that's odd! I've always had the thought that you shouldn't leave your washing out overnight...BUT I had a load that needed drying last night and as it's been so hot I thought I'd hang it up over night so it'd be dry by the morning and it was! My neighbours never hang any washing on their line which I find really weird even when it's perfect drying weather. Everything is done in their tumble dryer in the outside shed - why I keep asking myself!?

You’d think that, wouldn’t you?

I used to live near Rotherham, which Wikipedia confirms is South Yorkshire. There was no South Riding and now there’s no West Yorkshire.

Here’s a map which shows both the old Ridings and the new areas.
Edit: if that map is accurate it shows that places formerly in the West Riding could now be in Cumbria, Lancashire, Humberside and North, East or South Yorkshire.

Wow, I’m stunned I didn’t know this! Please tell me Leeds is still in West Yorkshire or my life will lose all meaning!