MiketheBSG
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I got that Ring Doorbell.
Such a great investment.
Such a great investment.
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Does anyone actually answer the door? Do you answer it blind?
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Linkstrikesback
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I have done so far , but I wish I had a eye viewer thing on my door (it's solid wood) so that I could see if it's the dickhead above me ringing the doorbell, so I could ignore it if I see it's him.
I answer because I like the rest of the people who live in my flat, but all he ever does is make threats over making too much noise when I'm pretty sure he imagines it all himself. I honestly don't feel safe if it's him.
I answer because I like the rest of the people who live in my flat, but all he ever does is make threats over making too much noise when I'm pretty sure he imagines it all himself. I honestly don't feel safe if it's him.
DedalusJoyce
Member
Modern life is depressing. People now don't answer the door or when they do its delivery people. What about friends and people that you live around? I always get people ringing for somewhat or the other. The only time I don't newer is when I'm a sleep
always crazy bacon
Banned
You can drill through solid wood and peepholes just screw in place. One of the easier DIY jobs.
Texting first is the new version of knocking on the door.
I mean... if someone needs water to cool a car while traveling Facebook is not going to cut it. And if an old man is disoriented because of Alzheimers and he can't find his way home he won't hit you up before through FB chat. Things like that are uncommon and yet they happen. One happened to me, the other to my parents.
But if you glance out the window that's fine, I think no one in this thread is asking people to open the door when you glance out and see it's a salesman, just... not hiding under the bed by default and pretending no one is there.
So like I said an egotistical (or rather, selfish) thing. Gotcha.
Well you can tell they are panhandlers before rolling down. Again, no one is asking people here to knowingly open their door to a salesman or a dude that carries a leaflet in his hand, just to check if someone might be in need of something or, you know, doing any of the normal things neighbors do.
If it's a convenient time for me or I'm expecting someone, I'll answer the door. Same goes for the phone. Otherwise, I'm happy to let it go. Especially since the majority of these are bullshit solicitations or religious/political in nature.
This has nothing to do with being "antisocial" or "modern life" or any other manufactured moaning and groaning about culture. If you're interrupting me and then expecting me to drop everything to address your call, you are the one being selfish. By all means, feel free to reach out make an attempt, but I'm under no obligation to respond every time I hear a bell ding or a phone ring.
This has nothing to do with being "antisocial" or "modern life" or any other manufactured moaning and groaning about culture. If you're interrupting me and then expecting me to drop everything to address your call, you are the one being selfish. By all means, feel free to reach out make an attempt, but I'm under no obligation to respond every time I hear a bell ding or a phone ring.
Linkstrikesback
Member
I can, but that's not the issue there, my landlord wouldn't let me.
I put the solid wood comment to make it clear that I don't know who it is until I open the door, but I guess my intention wasn't clear enough.
If you were a woman you will understand the paranoia.
Westbahnhof
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MontyBrown
Banned
Seriously. Scared of answering doors and phones? So sad.
Pankratous
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Ye. What is this thread, man.
OG Shaka Zulu
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OP is trapping or what?
Clockwork
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If I am not expecting you I do not answer the door. If you call me on the way over with little advance warning I will either tell you I am busy or will not answer.
If you call me I will probably let it go to voicemail. If I listen to it and I feel I need to respond I probably will not call you back. I will text you instead.
The only exception I really make to this is for my mom, stepdad, or girlfriend (she lives with me so the visiting/knocking thing doesn't apply). Nobody else needs to get ahold of me that easily.
If you call me I will probably let it go to voicemail. If I listen to it and I feel I need to respond I probably will not call you back. I will text you instead.
The only exception I really make to this is for my mom, stepdad, or girlfriend (she lives with me so the visiting/knocking thing doesn't apply). Nobody else needs to get ahold of me that easily.
Another reason why I do not answer the door.
When I was 16, my older brother had just bought a house. One night my parents went over there to do something. Shortly after they left I was about to go and take a bath. I was undressed and running bath water. I heard a knock at the door, I ignored it the first knock but my dog did not. He only barked when someone was on the porch he did not know. Somehow he knew it was not my parents. After I ignored the first knock knock they started trying to ram the door in. The dog went crazy barking and growling at the door, trying to keep himself into front of me. I ran to turn the light on (they could not see me) but just to let someone know I was there and once I did they ran off the porch. I then called the police on one phone and my parents at the same time on my cell phone. Police came but they found no one.
When I was 16, my older brother had just bought a house. One night my parents went over there to do something. Shortly after they left I was about to go and take a bath. I was undressed and running bath water. I heard a knock at the door, I ignored it the first knock but my dog did not. He only barked when someone was on the porch he did not know. Somehow he knew it was not my parents. After I ignored the first knock knock they started trying to ram the door in. The dog went crazy barking and growling at the door, trying to keep himself into front of me. I ran to turn the light on (they could not see me) but just to let someone know I was there and once I did they ran off the porch. I then called the police on one phone and my parents at the same time on my cell phone. Police came but they found no one.
I actually lolled at this. But yeah, you're 100% right.
yanipheonu
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Well this thread became an unexpected drop into people's crushing isolation and paranoia.
Not that distrust of people isn't always unwarranted (I avoid door to door sales as much as the next guy), but guys, you're probably going to have to talk to someone at your front door.
Not that distrust of people isn't always unwarranted (I avoid door to door sales as much as the next guy), but guys, you're probably going to have to talk to someone at your front door.
Frustrated_me
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I answer the door all the time if it's knocked.
Doesn't matter if I'm expecting someone or not.
Doesn't matter if I was given an early notice or not.
Doesn't matter if I don't know the person or not.
You guys are fucking weird AF, jesus christ get a life and learn to live it.
Doesn't matter if I'm expecting someone or not.
Doesn't matter if I was given an early notice or not.
Doesn't matter if I don't know the person or not.
You guys are fucking weird AF, jesus christ get a life and learn to live it.
Thanks, I have a life, my own business, masters degree with a 4.0 average, husband of 11 years, house and car. Still not answering the door to people I do not know. It's my house, I pay for it, if I don't want to answer the door to someone I don't know I don't have to.
Frustrated_me
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lol, okay. What a paranoid mentality to be living under.
Happy you have a business and a masters degree with a 4.0 average though, that's good stuff.
Zoidberg Jesus
Member
I want in on the sequel, "Knock Knock".
On topic, I get a little nervous when someone knocks on the door unannounced, but I live in an ok neighborhood, so if it's not too late, I'll look out the window on my door and answer. If I lived in a not so good neighborhood, I probably wouldn't answer as much.
I want to point out that the concept of not answering a door was considered so outlandish that it was used as a joke in The IT Crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUNokNnD38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUNokNnD38
Modern life is amazing. People don't usually need to answer the door, and when they do, it's delivery people! Friends text, and people you live around have a wealth of resources available to them.
Seriously, in a world in which most of us have cellphones and access to social and emergency services, there's little reason to bug a neighbour. And because it's 2017, I'm not forced to forge social links with people just because they live in my immediate physical proximity. I can meet people from all over the city with common interests; networking on social media to grow friendships that would have withered on the vine in the past.
If I'm not calling 911, I have thirty odd people I can call for help who live under 15 minutes away. I'd happily bother my neighbours if I needed to for some reason, and I answer the door to everyone because I'm rarely pestered by solicitors, but I love that in 2017 I typically don't need to trouble people I don't know.
People are more connected to each other now than they've ever been. Those who trade socialising physically to do so digitally are no different than reclusive epistolarians of the past, but those of us who enjoy the company of others can forge and nurture relationships more easily than at any other point in human history. On top of that, we're no longer prisoners of geographically imposed subcultures. If you don't like the ones who knock, fuck 'em. Live your life.
The 201Xs are the best; QED.
tonysidaway
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I get like 2 people a week working for home improvement companies soliciting business every week. I open the door and ask them what work they do and respond "Ooh so so I" and then they leave me be. So far I've told people im an exterminator, a window and siding guy, a concrete pro, a solar energy expert, a landscaping designer, a tree trimmer and an energy efficiency expert...Ooh and water quality engineer.
XiaNaphryz
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The Shadow
Member
Jesus. You sound like a paranoid boomer that only watches Fox News and Nancy Grace and thinks that everyone at the door must be a home invader.
Edit: welp. Guess it's antisocial millennials too. I'm in-between two crazy generations.
tonysidaway
Member
That's satire, right? Hard to tell in this thread.
MisterR
Member
Just weird
tonysidaway
Member
"The first time it happened, I was standing in my PJs making coffee in my kitchen when the jarring sound of our doorbell invaded my home."
Dear Rachel Thompson,
you're British, you're writing for a British website about British people, and you describe your clothing as PJs? Please. They're pyjamas.
Dear Rachel Thompson,
you're British, you're writing for a British website about British people, and you describe your clothing as PJs? Please. They're pyjamas.
Jesus fucking Christ, it must suck to feel compelled to respond to a bell whenever it rings. Learn to live your own life without having to answer to everyone else's.
Aizo
Banned
I always speak to them in Japanese and tell them no, and then I shut the door. They don't come back.
GAF never ceases to amaze.
For all you paranoia nuts checking your peepholes to see who's there; what if whoever is knocking has their gun to the peephole and shoots you through the eye when you peek through. Did you think about that, yeah. Yeah! Woooooo 🤔
If someone knocks on my door I get up from whatever I'm doing and I go and answer it like a normal person.
For all you paranoia nuts checking your peepholes to see who's there; what if whoever is knocking has their gun to the peephole and shoots you through the eye when you peek through. Did you think about that, yeah. Yeah! Woooooo 🤔
If someone knocks on my door I get up from whatever I'm doing and I go and answer it like a normal person.
Me too. It's awesome.
Only time someone knocks on my door is when it's one of my neighbors or the landlord who are already in the apartment building.
I also have a peephole for my door so I don't have to open it blind.
Nope. I don't trust people. If I don't know you, you don't have any reason to be at my door or property.
Friends will either call me, text me or knock on my room window.
Friends will either call me, text me or knock on my room window.
Pokemaniac
Member
To be honest, I'd be somewhat impressed if someone actually came up to my door in the first place. With the way the apartment building is laid out, there's not too much risk of random people showing up at my door.
GreenMonkey
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Yeah. I mean, what is the risk? You have to talk to someone? A burglar, rapist or other home invader isn't gonna ring the doorbell. If anything, answering the door when the house seems empty may actually deter them from breaking in. Some burglars check if anyone is home by ringing first.
Back when I lived in the Netherlands I had one of those cameras that let you see whoever's downstairs and ringing your bell. The apartments all explicitly forbid opening the front door for anyone you don't know.
Now that I live with my husband in America... well, if my husband's not home, please text me or I won't open the door. I'm a transgender autistic girl with crippling social anxiety. If I don't know you I don't want to talk to you, alone.
The apartments I lived in forbade people from just opening doors because that's exactly how burglars and other awful people tended to get in.
Now that I live with my husband in America... well, if my husband's not home, please text me or I won't open the door. I'm a transgender autistic girl with crippling social anxiety. If I don't know you I don't want to talk to you, alone.
The apartments I lived in forbade people from just opening doors because that's exactly how burglars and other awful people tended to get in.
Omegasquash
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I do, but I have a big window so I can see who it is, and they can see me.
The house phone? Not unless I'm expecting it. Anyone who knows me knows to text.
The house phone? Not unless I'm expecting it. Anyone who knows me knows to text.