I found some knickers that are not mine. Can anyone come up with an explanation ?

[ABitOfAPuzzle]

OK. H just back from a weekend away with his friends, doing a sporting activity.

I found some women's knickers that are not mine, and not my DC's, openly left out on our bedroom dressing table.

Has anybody any ideas of what could be an appropriate explanation for this ? At the moment, I am struggling to see one. I am asking him about it later when the DC are in bed.

No other signs, or history, of playing away, btw. Just this.

I once had a whole washing lines worth of my knickers pinched out of my back garden when I was in my 20s - always wondered which sad perv had taken them

Perversely, this thread is making me want to try out these Sloggi pants. I am always in search of comfortable knickers...

Have you got anybody who comes in to do the cleaning?

I would guess they might have been used as a cleaning rag if they are old.

I found a rather fetching pair of white y-fronts in a pile of washing once.

After much accusation from my ex about whether I'd been sleeping with a y-front clad man and washing his pants, it transpired my mum had accidentally sent a pair of my dad's brogs down in a pile of my son's clothes she'd washed after he'd stayed for a couple of days.

Have none of you ever read "Aliens in Underpants?"

Obv aliens have nicked some sloggis, decided they weren't their cup of tea and returned them to the wrong house by mistake.

Explains all the other random pant/sock mysteries in life, it's the aliens! ( but they did save our planet, so be nice)

His underwear drawer probably has stuff in it from the 1980's

I was going to ask how long you've been using that particular dresser.

In the past 30 years, have you never used a launderette or other shared laundry facility? On a campsite, perhaps, or in a rented holiday home, or had service washes at a hotel or used the spin-dryer thingy at a gym? Never been in hospital or used the lockers at a gym or pool? I ask because, despite my advanced years, I well remember the excitement/frustration (depending on gains/losses) of student wash days, when no load came back unaltered. A stray pair of knickers easy gets stuck inside a sock.

I used to wear Sloggis for the gym so, if you're in South-West London or the West End or Docklands, they could be mine!

Oh - my friend, still in South London, has a family of foxes nearby, who regularly steal items of washing and leave them elsewhere after playing with them.

I kind of miss the minor wardrobe mutations associated with city life :)

toomuch

Forgot to add: Leave the bastard. Of course.

My lovely cat (long dead now ) once came through the cat flap with a lovely lacy black bra in his mouth.

We knew it was the neighbour's because the previous week he'd come in with one of her slippers, and then gone back to get the other one.....

Do you have a cat?

no cleaner

no cat

no explanation so far

we haven't had the same dresser since the 1980's

I was just illustrating that he doesn't replace what's in there very often, and I don't inspect the contents ever

no gym memberships in the family

This reminds me of a phone call my mum received from my nan once.

'I put my washing on the line an hour ago. Now my knickers are gone! I think someone's stolen them. Should I report it to the insurance company?'

She never did find the missing knickers...

Oh for goodness sake op. Why the drama. People have given you LOTS of plausible explanations.

You either think he's cheating or not. If you really think he has. Then only you can decide what to do. But the consensus on this thread seems to be its innocent. Scooped up from a drawer, scooped up in the changing rooms etc. you seem to be reluctant to think there is any explanation which could be valid.

HOP, people are still asking me direct questions on my thread

I am paying them the courtesy of replying

Have you asked him about them op?

yes, I have, iloveberries

he says he knows nothing about them, or "might" have found them in his drawer a couple of weeks ago and left them out, presumably thinking they were mine

it's all upthread, but thanks for asking

OP,

For what it's worth, I'm a bit at the number of light-hearted responses on this thread, as you are clearly worried and to be honest, you sound rather upset. People, taking the p* out of the OP isn't going down too well so hold up now?

OP can you ask him again and have a proper chat? It all sounds a bit suss.

Sorry - I must have missed it upthread. Talk to dh if you're worried op.

very disappointed to be honest really wanted them to belong to the queen or something and find out that your husband was daniel craig

They are my mother's sloggi knickers, which she lost when visiting Nigeria in 1992. They were a newish pair, which she claims to have left behind, but despite turning the apartment upside down, and checking the beach hut, I was never able to find them. She raises the loss of these pants regularly, twenty years later. They were clearly spirited away by telekinesis from Lagos to your knicker drawer. (You're not in Nigeria, are you? That would lend helpful back up to my theory.) Somewhere in the home counties, there is a little old lady, having the reverse of your discussion with herself. Where are those pants? What can have happened to them? Will I ever see them again? How can I have lost them? My sloggis! So expensive!

What's with the thread police?
OP is entitled to post on her own thread - no?
And others are entitled to be lighthearted - it is a knickers thread after all.
If people don't like the thread, they could er... not read it?

Well, OP, I agree that you do sound rather upset. Since there are a hundred plausible explanations for an unfamiliar pair of everyday knickers having appeared in your home - and none of them satisfy you - I get the feeling you have some reasons to mistrust your husband? People have already asked about this and been dismissed. So I have no more to contribute

What garlic said.

Dismissed ? I haven't "dismissed" anybody

I have answered some direct questions like "have you got a cat?" (no, I haven't) and "could they belong to your teenagers friends?" (I don't reckon so) but that is all

and I thought I had thanked everybody for their responses, in fact I am sure I have

I haven't got a satisfactory explanation for where the knickers appeared from, but like I said upthread, I don't believe my H has been shagging Sloggi-wearing women while his mate sleeps in the hotel bath either

it could be any of those plausible explanations, sure it could

I do wonder whether any of you would be equally as unsettled as I am though if unexplained women's underwear was found on your partner's dressing table though, immediately after he came home from a lads weekend

I don't think I am BU to feel a bit perturbed by it, and would feel a lot happier with a concrete explanation ( shrugs )