General Chat

To get to my bathroom, I have to go downstairs and through the living room. The bathroom is next to the kitchen.
When my girls were teenagers, they invited some friends back. Girls went up to their bedrooms - friends slept on the living room floor.
I came down in the morning (with dressing gown on) to have a wee and make a cuppa. I walked into the living room, to see at least 6 (male) bodies on the floor, a couple of heads rose 'Morning L's mum', so at least 2 were awake!
I had to do a quick about turn, run upstairs and find some pyjama trousers to put on before I could step over them and get to the kitchen :-0

We did once have an intruder – OH nudges me awake to say there is someone downstairs. Who gets up and grabs their dressing gown? Well, it wasn’t him! :-|

It turns out it was 2 of the neighbours. My father, in the early stages of dementia and on an over-night visit, had gone a-wandering. They’d come in via the open front door to ask me to collect him from their house.

It´s strange how one thinks, When in the pub any noises was a broken pool cue and if the alarm had gone off a call to the police. In the RV on the road I would grab a weapon (still starkers mind), not that a weapon helped when we got broken into as we were gassed (swears). Now I just head off no weapon (apart from my mouth) no clothes and if the was an intruder no ruddy dignity either. :-( :-0

In the 1960's hubby was on night work at local factory

One night I was woken by sounds of someone downstairs and was worried because of our daughter . I got up and looked for a suitable weapon and settled on one of hubby's motorbike leather boots . I got one and came downstairs to confront the intruder and hubby said 'it's me '

He also said later you didn't think cos you came down in your see through nightie and even though you had the boot if it wasn't me you could have been in trouble

True

:-(

Uzzi :-D :-D

I take the dressing gown, as I usually make a cup of tea while I'm downstairs, and up until recently, I didn't have blinds on the half glass kitchen door, that faces the street :-0

Oh, and sometimes (like in the Winter) it's cold :-D

Maggie at least you can throw the dressing gown over them, I usually don´t even take that !

It reminds me of a friend, They were traveling home in their RV with 2 GS´s when somebody tried to break in. The oldie woke P and the young one waited by the window to woof in the intruders face. P grabbed a base ball bat and chased after the guy down the road, and into a French village totally starkers :-0 :-0 :-D

'twould be sooo much easier if I were a man - I'd just wee all over them :-D

....BUT, as I don't turn the stair lights on, I have my 'silent adversaries' -- two black cats, one of which regularly comes downstairs with me, with (I believe) a secret intent to make me fall.......
Time to re-train him to make the intruder fall.....

you need a seriously powerful torch, to blind 'em,
then hit 'em with whatever comes to hand.........

unless its Santa of course which requires a slightly different mode of action.......

Same here, Uzzi. I imagine the thought of me, starkers, dressing gown over shoulder, would scare off anyone/thing!!! :-0

Actually, if anyone was there, I'd just scream WEEEEE.
My loo is downstairs, and if I DO get up during the night my bladder goes 'empty me' - whether I initially needed to or not. :-|

I do grin to myself when either my grumpy gran of a dog or myself hear noises in the night.

I get up and investigate ....why ??? I have no weapon and 9/10 I wear (TMI) so what do I think I am going to do if I find an intruder. Find a stun gun from some where? or do I hope that the sight of me strikes them down. :-0 :-0 :-0
I say how stupid I am after I have done it and then do it again !!