For neighbour to use a ladder to get my attention?

[ShakyBake]

Day off today so decided to sleep in. At approx 8.50am I heard tapping on my window, half dazed I've opened the curtains and my neighbour was outside saying they couldn't get through to my phone (I checked after and had 3 missed calls) and would I give them a lift to the airport as taxi failed to show.
I don't know them (man and wife in their 60's) that well but I rushed out of house in nightgown and took them without thinking. Part of me thinks I just did a good deed and being a neighbour, other part thinks the ladder overstepped the mark.

Most 60 year olds have basic balance and fitness nowadays.

Are your neighbours called Terry and June?

There will be a next time?!! 😂

D'oh!

‘Trevor was having something rebandaged’

thanks for the snort laugh this morning, OP. Brilliant stuff!

😂

Sounds like they panicked & just wanted to get to the airport somehow, you’ll have a good laugh with them about it when they get home.

Wow bizarre as anything. How nice you were op!

When they get back I think you should tell them you were glad you could help but please don't ever use a ladder to my window like that again it's too intrusive '- just to reassert boundaries in case they start taking the piss.

Can imagine the benny hill music going throughout this haha.

I would not have been amused at being woken up like that at all. You're a nicer person than I am. I aren't sure what I would have done tbh if I would have taken them but you are a really decent kind person.

I’d have woken up but honestly I’d have waited until their son got there and let him take them. Suppose you weren’t there, would they try other neighbours for lifts? Ladder is a bit extreme.

Cheeky bastard. I'd have told him to bugger off and never darken my window again.

They climbed a ladder and KNOCKED ON YOUR BEDROOM WINDOW??? I'd be f@#*×&g apoplectic!!!

This doesn’t sound real. It’s bonkers.

Why didn’t they drive themselves to the airport and pay to park??!

If they’d climbed a ladder to knock my bedroom window and wake me up to drive them anywhere other than the hospital, they’d have found a raging banshee 😂

I only meant it from the point of view of the risk of falling !

I think the older couple were genius. Very fast thinking and efficient. I'm assuming they phoned another neighbor to take away the ladder ....

I see. Yes, shimmying up a ladder to ask for an airport lift, not my go to response, but hey.

Why didn't they wait for their son? Surely they weren't in danger of missing their flight?
Oh and 60 isn't elderly for those who are referring to the couple as old dears.

“In their 60s” isn’t 60. But “old dears” might well be wrong on both counts

Don’t you have a dressing gown? They’re not uncommon

Thanks @morselover69, do you often try to kill people, because I nearly choked on my breakfast! 🤭

I'm not clenched at all but I do t understand how that's hyperbole, it's just plain not true, where is the in-between or pushing someone off a ladder and not pushing them off?

This thread is all kinds of bonkers

Had time to source a ladder and climb it but not an uber

Yeah right

There was no taxi

"was going to try Trevor (another elderly neighbour) but he was having something rebandaged"

Such a special sentence 😂

I love this - well done you on being a good neighbour

Her language was just fine, and there was no need for it to be edited down to a bone dry factual remark, in what’s obviously a very comical thread.
Context, my dear.

Got asked for emergency lift to airport once at evening time.
we live 20mins from Heathrow so assumed and agreed.
got onto motorway ‘oh Gatwick please!’
4 hour round trip 🤬
No gift and barely a thank you.
refuse to even water their plants now