[LMB] OT: Tesco

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Phil Boswell wrote:

> On 08/06/07, coalboy <charcoalbpoodle at isp.com> wrote:
> > Dorian wrote: <major snippage>
> > > Though, to be honest, I really wouldn't much care if my neighbours saw my
> > > knickers drying on the line (the ones immediately next door probably can
> > > from their upstairs windows, in fact).  I wouldn't put my clothes-line in
> > > the front garden, but that's more because some random freak might come by
> > > and *steal* my knickers! :-)
> > JH: It's not so much you don't care if the neighbors see your knickers as
> > the neighbors object *strenuously* to being *able* to see them.
>
> They're likely worried that some clown might translate "I don't mind
> being able to see your knickers if you want to hang them out to dry"
> into "I'm a pervy bastard who likes sneaking a peek at your knickers:
> what else have you got? <hur hur> See my sweaty palms".

Combining this with Dorian's comment I have to say, one reason
I'd never hang my laundry out to dry (aside from the fact that I
hate stiff laundry and hate ironing) is that once I made the
mistake of leaving my laundry alone in a laundromat while the
dryer was going. I came back, the dryer stopped and I unloaded
it, folded my clothing and took it upstairs.  When I started to
put my clothing away I realised that some hentai freak had stolen
every single pair of knickers.  Which in those days of not having
lots of clothes was every freaking pair of knickers I owned
except the one I had on which I washed by hand every night for
three days until I got paid.

Now you're thinking, ah, but she's a big city girl.  True, but I
lived in Kentucky at the time.

I really would not trust people not to steal my clothes if I left
them out of doors for several hours at a time.  I just wouldn't.
There are things that I own that have to be hung up to dry and I
do it inside the apartment.  (I also live in fear of birds
sh*tting on the laundry like someone else who was mentioned here,
probably because I myself have been shat on 3 times in the years
that I've lived here and I know there are a lot of pigeons here.)

Sigh.

Of course this is the land of fog and mist so no-one out here
would dare to tell me my clothes would line dry in an hour...

~malfoy :)

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