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Should I ask him up here?

494 replies

sourdrawers · 17/05/2015 12:06

Look I know it's Sunday and the sun is shining.. But pleease I need some encouragement . I posted my story on 'what's the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you?' thread yesterday and feel it's time to look wider for help.

Cutting long story short - bloke I fancy lives in garden flat below me. Pretty sure he's single, another neighbour reckons so too. Me, hung washing out on my balcony (mostly undies), windy day, they all flew off and landed in his garden downstairs. I plucked up the nerve to go down there ask him if I could get them, he agreed very nicely offered to help. I refused it and sprinted through his place, to garden, picked, (I thought), all my washing up and was leaving hurriedly, managed to catch bra strap in door handle, they all fell on his floor and I banged head on his living room door. I gathered up all items again and ran home burning with embarrassment.

Day later, knock on door, I answered in old jogging bottoms, filthy old vest, and cat shit, litter tray shovel in my hand. It was him, with a pair of my huge, grey baggies in his hand. He gave them (lovely smile) to me, and made a witty remark. Told me his name and that he's a plumber etc.. I, through half-opened front door , snatched nix off him, in tears of embarrassment. He left saying if he found anymore he'd bring them back..

Anyhow couple of days on and I'm calm and looking incredibly gorgeous, his car is downstairs and I have leaking tap. Should I ask him up here???? If so, how?? WTF do I say??

OP posts:
Summertimeplease · 22/05/2015 19:41

Sorry I meant question marks????

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 22/05/2015 19:49

Summer it's not. Already been established.

Churs, Pips.

ItsRainingInBaltimore · 22/05/2015 20:01

in pub now.. him single 2 years. Lovely hands, v sexy smile. Shitting myself he's going to try snogging me. Its been 6 years 4 me. no man

This was on Sunday, on their first date. How funny that she noticed he had nice hands but failed to notice the missing finger then. Hmm

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 22/05/2015 20:06

Grin That's made me proper laugh. I don't why...must be the wine!

MyChildDoesntNeedSleep · 22/05/2015 20:15

I'm sorry, I agree with Summer. Not sure how it's been 'established'? Because the author of that other thread popped on the thread?

usualsuspect333 · 22/05/2015 20:15

Maybe he lost his finger on the Monday?

GiddyOnZackHunt · 22/05/2015 20:52

AS reveals a gas engineer dp in September apparently.
It has been a nice read though :)

Koalafications · 22/05/2015 21:02

A gas engineer DP, a plumber to give her pipes a good servicing where's the electrician, painter & decorator and carpenter?

HotelNipplyGort · 22/05/2015 21:16

I don't think it's the same person as the workman thread at all. The style is totally different - different MO, OP barely updated on the other thread and didn't seem to relish the details of it at all. This one is LOVING it - can't stop talking about knickers.

Unless the OP of this thread was by some bizarre coincidence the man who violated the other OP's house, there's no connection to be made IMO.

Be interested in an update from the OP of the other thread if there's one going - I hope you are Ok x

DoorToTheRiver · 22/05/2015 22:02

Surprised this thread is still here. Is it considered harmless or deemed okay because the OP has a lot of posting history. Even the username makes reference to drawers!

MyChildDoesntNeedSleep · 22/05/2015 22:15

Haha door... Didn't even notice that!Grin

Four125 · 23/05/2015 00:19

Oh I'm so gullible, I really mustn't believe everything.

BitOutOfPractice · 23/05/2015 02:40

No sign of sourdrawers? And yet she's always been so regular with the updates!

ItsRainingInBaltimore · 23/05/2015 03:31

Yes Door her user name sourdrawers is dodgy when you consider that she didn't NC and pick it just to tell us her knicker/plumber anecdote and has been posting as sourdrawers for quite a while on a variety of topics. Although it seems she does have a bit of a knicker theme going.

WienerDiva · 23/05/2015 04:02

This is all too much for my brain. I genuinely thought this was for real. I kind of astonished at my own naivety Blush

ItsRainingInBaltimore · 23/05/2015 04:06

Its quite weird reading all sour's past posts. On teh one hand she seems so consistent and so normal and yet once or twice she does blatantly contradict herself on quite specific things. If you are going to make stuff up you really need to learn to be consistent or to name change!

GingerbreadBaubles · 23/05/2015 05:28

I feel a bit sorry for her, having to make up stories like this to get attention is quite sad really.

Roussette · 23/05/2015 08:25

I was on board with this until the proper date. Sunday OP says she doesn't want sex and is quite chaste with just a snog. By Wednesday she's an over confident femme fatale and making all the moves straddling him whether he likes it or not! I think that bit was just far too in yer face and unlikely because she was all nerves about the date.

I always take threads like this with a pinch of salt anyway, they're like something out of a black lace book quite often so I just go along with it for my own amusement but inwardly I'm often thinking "yeah, yeah, as if..."

Psippsina · 23/05/2015 08:43

I wonder why they haven't banned this poster yet. So many glaring inconsistencies, so many references to underwear, and offers to go to people's houses to check their boilers ought to be taken seriously IMO.

This isn't a bird posting.

Waltermittythesequel · 23/05/2015 08:57

Anyone remember CakeGate and the furore it caused?

A regular NC'd and made up a hilarious thread about baking and her dh eating contaminated cakes. MN let it stand because it was 'harmless' trolling in that there was no malicious intent. Twas just a laugh.

Poster was a reg and came out on the thread to explain it.

It split MN at the time; people who enjoyed it and people who were pissed that MN knew she was trolling and did nothing about it...

WellErrr · 23/05/2015 08:59

It was funny though - it was her DH eating cakes which she had baked and then left out for the bin as they weren't quite good enough.

This is a bit sinister.

Lweji · 23/05/2015 09:01

A regular NC'd and made up a hilarious thread about baking and her dh eating contaminated cakes.

Less than perfect cakes.

It was that ridiculous.

I agree that the pp in this thread is more worrying if what people are reporting is correct (haven't gone through her his posts).

Psippsina · 23/05/2015 09:01

I can't remember the cake one. The aeroplane one was contentious too. I remember arguing on it for days and being shot down by people who were enjoying the fiction. Never occurred to me it was written by a bloke at the time but it sounds just like this bollocks, in hindsight - all about 'underwires' (?) and what sort of see through sweater to wear.

This is the problem - trolling causes a bunfight whatever sort it is, unless it's genuinely hilarious and justifiable.

Waltermittythesequel · 23/05/2015 09:04

I thought the cake one was funny but I agree, it was harmless and just ridiculous
...

Any links to other threads with this one? Starting to feel a bit Confused

Waltermittythesequel · 23/05/2015 09:04

This poster I mean.