To think they were strange?

[Ripeberry]

This afternoon as it was tipping down with rain, I just thought that I would take DD1 and DD2 with me to the pre-school that I clean on a weekend and during weekday evenings.
Normaly it is very quiet up there, no houses nearby and surrounded by fields.
At around 2pm, about 6 cars pull up at the gates (locked) and about 15 people get out and just stand on the other side of the gate looking towards the pre-school, where we were.
They were just standing there in the pouring rain, to be honest they were freaking me out a bit, could not recognise any of them.
I took my time finishing the cleaning, taking 2 hours instead of the usual 1hr and they were still there.
We had to leave so I got to the gate with DDs, put the rubbish in the bin and got in the car.
I then looked at all the cars and wrote down the reg numbers just in case anything happened.
They were just staring at me as I was not supposed to be there , well hello I'm the one who's got the electronic pass.
Don't know what they wanted, but it sure freaked me out and I was too nervous to ask them outright.

YANBU.

Maybe the building is being sold and they were coming to look at it?

Local press? Council? Investors?

Does seem weird but there could be a reason.

To put your mind at rest, I would inform the pre school tomorrow and leave it up to them to deal with.

I'll have a word with one of the school governors tomorrow, maybe it was a planned visit, at least I've got a time frame to give them so they can check back on the security video (the main school).
Could be all innocent, but I usualy relax on a weekend when up there, but at night especially in winter I lock myself in just in case

That would freak me out too.

Were they birdspotters? People travel miles for that sort of thing. Google and see if there's a rare bird lurking in the bushes.

they stood in the rain for 2 hours? when they had come by car?

I bet they were aliens.

Dogging.

Made me all nervous

Spoke to the governors and they knew nothing about it. Nothing stolen or damaged, maybe they were aliens?......Oohh.
Bit of a panic myself this am, lost my purse, started to cancel my cards when the pre-school leader called me this morning to wonder why my purse was in their kitchen.

I think I was so busy worrying about them and having to walk past them that I forgot to pick up half my stuff.

This would have freaked me out too.

Very odd behaviour Ripeberry. Too many of them to be prospective clients. What ages were they ? Male / female ?

All male, about middle aged. Sometimes we get famillies who come up with their picnic rugs and they climb into the school, so that they can have a picnic and their kids can use the playground (which is a bit cheeky to be honest).
Never mind, just one of those things.

So so strange, OP. Did any of them speak to you, even say hello?

How utterly bizarre. Fifteen middle aged men standing in the rain for two hours? Did they even acknowledge you as you went past? Maybe it's a doggers' den ?

Oooh...freaky.
That would have right put the willies up me.

Def doggers or aliens I reckon.

Or alien doggers.

Is it not leylines?

The last thing you want is doggers putting the willies up you.

A bunch of middle-aged men staring at a school ? Hmmmmm .... be very wary.

What the frick is a dogger????

Google "dogging".

eww

Were they standing there for 2 hours? How strange.