Musician Amy Macdonald had a funny story involving her friend who mistakenly thought something was wrong in her neighbor’s house across the road, thanks to a cardboard cutout of Judi Dench.
Macdonald, from Glasgow, shared a photo that showed the exterior of a building located just across her friend’s house.
Clearly seen on the window is an outline of a person who looks like she’s wearing a long white shirt and has a short, cropped hairstyle.
The “This is the Life” singer wrote: “My mate was at work and she noticed a woman standing at the window in one of the flats opposite.
“She didn’t really think anything of it. She thought it was just a woman enjoying a coffee whilst looking out the window.”
Macdonald went on to explain that her friend began to “get a bit worried” after hours had passed yet the mysterious woman “had not moved” from the window.
Macdonald continued: “She went to get a better view.”
The singer then gave the punchline, adding: “Och, just a cardboard cutout of Judi Dench.
“To the person who lives in this flat. You have given us the best laugh today.”
Her Twitter fans thoroughly enjoyed the story, with one commenting: “What a plot twist.”
Another laughed: “The old ‘make ’em think someone’s at home’ trick!”
It’s unknown if the Judi Dench cutout was really a security measure or not but it was definitely good for a few laughs.
This brings to mind a household in Japan that thought of an incredible way to use a cardboard cutout.
Japanese mom Fuki Sato and her husband were trying to think of a creative way to keep their child from crying whenever she left the room. Their out of the (cardboard) box solution was to put a cardboard cutout of Fuki within sight of their child so that the toddler would still think Fuki was in the room.
And it worked beautifully.
Her husband went to Twitter to share a video and photographs which impressed a lot of people.
He said: “It’s hard because my one-year-old child cries as soon as mum disappears.
“As a counter-measure, I experimented with what would happen if I set up a ‘life-sized panel mother.'”
The dad also quickly clarified that at no point was the kid left completely alone.
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