We get Jehovah's Witnesses at our door monthly probably, so I generally don't answer unless I'm expecting something. Every other Tuesday is Schwan man day, so if I want something I'll open, otherwise I ignore. My family and friends have an annoying tendency to ring even though I let them know the door will be unlocked.
Once I ordered a pizza and came to the door with money in hands and it ended up being some dude about microbeads wanting me to donate/sign a petition. It was hella awkward because he saw my money out and I had to be all pizza is more important lol. It's the only cash I had and I was not giving some rando money/card info anyways.
Post by One Girl In All The World on Sept 2, 2017 8:44:19 GMT -5
My dog goes apeshit if he sees someone remotely close to our house, so if someone comes to the door and I'm going to open it, I have to crate him to let them in or whatever. If it's someone random person offering an estimate I don't want, I'm not dealing with that. They often ignore "no soliciting" signs. They can just move along. Plus my kids hate it when someone knocks (we don't have a bell) because of the drunk asshole that pounded on our door at 2 am months back and scared the shit out of us.
That said, I can see basically the whole neighborhood from my windows so if it were a neighbor I would be able to see that and would open the door for them. I'm not a total asshole.
We have two different doorbells. One for the front of the house and the other for the side of the house. I have never been able to figure out what bell goes to what door. So every time the doorbell unexpectedly rings, I choose the wrong door and have to run back and forth through the house to figure it out lol.
My house has three bells, one on the front door, one on the back door and one on the door that leads from the garage into the house. They all sound the same and it makes me crazy. It's really weird that there's one on the garage door, but a lot of houses have them here.
When we first moved here the mailman rang the bell in the garage. We had forgotten to close the car garage door, and he figured that would be better than the front door? It was really weird and awkward as I was sitting on the couch nearly topless nursing my new baby. I needed to go past the garage door to get a shirt and there's a large window in the garage door. That's another strange thing about this area. All the garage doors to the house have big windows in them. For all those picturesque garage views I guess.
I have never texted someone upon arriving at their house, and I can't recall anyone ever doing so at mine. Of course, back in the dark ages when I learned social skills texting didn't exist.
Post by penguingrrl on Sept 2, 2017 9:33:24 GMT -5
I only lock my doors overnight or if I'll be gone for hours. Otherwise I generally run out the door and don't even think to lock it. I realize that's not good lol!
Our family wouldn't dream of knocking and waiting. They knock as they open the door. Most friends knock, but there are a few close enough to just walk in and shout hi. My mom and ILs also don't use the front door as they consider it for guests. We do the same in all of their houses.