Amazon came into my back garden!

SnowTiger

SuperHan wrote: »

You should be scared of your child playing in the back garden with an unlocked gate. It'd only take two seconds for a more ill intentioned man...

No ill-intentioned women where you live?

k3lvc

SuperHan wrote: »

It'd only take two seconds for a more ill intentioned man to come in and snatch her. Equally, what if it had been someone less desirable than a delivery driver who came in and found you in a nightdress, in your garden which is secluded from the view of passersby.

In these days of equality surely there are 'ill intentioned women' as well ??

SuperHan wrote: »

You should really get a [STRIKE]lock[/STRIKE] life.

:rotfl:

vikingaero

Do you live in a Victorian terrace house or a modern development? Most Victorian terraces have a communal gate with rights of access over and to neighbours gardens.

tizerbelle

vikingaero wrote: »

Do you live in a Victorian terrace house or a modern development? Most Victorian terraces have a communal gate with rights of access over and to neighbours gardens.

I would say some not most. I've lived in about 8 Victorian terraces in my life (that I can recall, there may have been more further back than my memory goes) and not one of them had a communal gate/rights of access across - they all had their own yard/garden and own gate, accessed from the back street / ten-foot / ginnel depending on the location.

LilElvis

This morning I answered the door to the Amazon Logistics guy in my pjs - I don't think he gave a stuff as he was too busy trying to find my 5 boxes in his van, including such disparate items as a wheelbarrow, deodorant and cutting blades for a craft tool. Fortunately the sprog was completely unaffected by her mother's slatternly behaviour and doesn't require counselling - just a mini Magnum ice cream.

likelyfran

marliepanda wrote: »

And no doubt copying a key for his own use as he is such a terrifying man.

Have to laugh at all the people taking the p out of the OP for this.

Yes, it's a good idea to have at least a bolt on one's back gate but .. it's just not right to just stroll into someone's back garden uninvited - I don't know what kind of gate OP has, ours is set into a wall that's way more than head height so that's even weirder if hers is like that too and gate just opens and suddenly a man's there, uninvited.

And if OP wants to wear a nightie and feels comfortable doing so unseen in confines of her own back garden, she's perfectly ok to feel uncomfortable about someone inviting themselves into her private property - if that's the way she feels!

Sheesh, this forum sometimes.

boo_star

likelyfran wrote: »

And if OP wants to wear a nightie and feels comfortable doing so unseen in confines of her own back garden, she's perfectly ok to feel uncomfortable about someone inviting themselves into her private property - if that's the way she feels!

She can feel however she wants to feel, but that doesn't make it reasonable.

She was in the back yard of a terraced house where it's likely several of the houses in the terrace and across the street if it's back to back with another terrace or similar properties can, at least from upstairs, see right into her yard.

In all likelihood the driver didn't expect someone who was outside, to be wearing clothing that that they weren't happy to be seen in outside.

bap98189

SuperHan wrote: »

You should be scared of your child playing in the back garden with an unlocked gate. It'd only take two seconds for a more ill intentioned man to come in and snatch her. Equally, what if it had been someone less desirable than a delivery driver who came in and found you in a nightdress, in your garden which is secluded from the view of passersby.

Wow - is this an attempt at satire or are you actually that paranoid?

marliepanda

bap98189 wrote: »

Wow - is this an attempt at satire or are you actually that paranoid?

It’s true that if you’re in a nightdress you can much more easily be kidnapped or be so alluring that men cannot help themselves! (Me in my pyjamas is a site to behold. I don’t expect any man or woman to be able to resist!)

B_G_B

It could be argued that using the tradesman’s entrance is exactly the right place for a delivery driver to turn up.