Earthbound64
Banned
I don't think you've been reading the responses from many of the people who have said that here...
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Does anyone actually answer the door? Do you answer it blind?
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I don't think you've been reading the responses from many of the people who have said that here...
PeskyToaster
Member
I'm a fully functional human being. I'll answer the door.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
99% of the time there's an unscheduled knock/ring, it's a package delivery person (who isn't actually waiting for me to open the door, just letting me know a package has been left outside) or someone trying to sell me something, despite our neighborhood having a "no soliciting" policy and signs to that effect. The last time I opened the door it was a scammer who claimed to be fundraising for the local high school (I gave him $20 anyway for a years-old coupon book).
Maybe I should get a camera. With a peephole, it's too obvious you're home.
Maybe I should get a camera. With a peephole, it's too obvious you're home.
kitchenmotors
Banned
This is like 90% if GAF judging from all these threads.
Berserking Guts
Member
You must be from the 80s or something. Old man.
Earthbound64
Banned
paperboywriter
Member
A lot here arnt answering calls either
Gordon Shumway
Banned
GAF. There's a fly in my house..HELP!
I know my neighbors names. I don't want to talk to them. Ok say hi if Insee then while leaving the house but that's it. I have no need for some fake suburban experience where o walk through and greet every single person by name and ask how the kids are doing
Dandy Lyin
Member
I always look out a window to see who it is. If I don't know them, and they aren't wearing a uniform/carrying a package, I pretend I'm not there. Judge me, I don't care.
I'm really surprised by the answers. Who doesn't answer their door??
Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
So sad that so many people do not answer their doors... really says something.
I always answer mine. Hell I leave the door unlocked when I am home most of the time too.
Maybe depends where you live I guess.
Someone maybe knocks on my door that is not "expected" about 5-6 times a year though, so not often. And almost exclusively it is some church group, or Comcast.
I always answer mine. Hell I leave the door unlocked when I am home most of the time too.
Maybe depends where you live I guess.
Someone maybe knocks on my door that is not "expected" about 5-6 times a year though, so not often. And almost exclusively it is some church group, or Comcast.
You Are Viewtiful
Member
I was expecting a punchline or an /s at the end or something. Is that OP for real? Lmao. Yeah, I answer it. I do have a camera on my porch though.
Earthbound64
Banned
I still disagree with that assessment.
There was a fly in my apartment this morning. It was annoying.
And then there was a woodpecker by the window driving my cats crazy - so I went outside and shooed it away.
Busy morning.
Objectively harder than not answering the door. I don't owe anybody knocking on my door anything in life. Knock all you want, I'm not answering. It's much harder for you to knock than it is for me to ignore you.
Kingpin Rogers
Member
I don't know if you're joking or not but you've just described me perfectly. You need to keep the blinds or curtains closed though so it looks like you're out.
Finale Fireworker
Member
I have never not answered the door. I am 26. Have hope.
Dandy Lyin
Member
Exactly. Why would I waste my time with that?
This is such a weird question, why wouldn't you answer the door? If it is after 10 PM, then I would be wary, but before that why the hell wouldn't you unless you are trying to avoid process servers...
I don't make my bed but that is because my bed is up in a loft that I only go up to for sleep and is only accessible by a steep ladder, ie, no one goes up there and it isn't visible from the ground floor where my office is...
I don't make my bed but that is because my bed is up in a loft that I only go up to for sleep and is only accessible by a steep ladder, ie, no one goes up there and it isn't visible from the ground floor where my office is...
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
The trick is to use headphones instead of a sound system/speakers. That way you can a) play videogames/watch anime silently so as to not betray your presence, and b) feign ignorance of the doorbell.
The vast majority of knocks on my door are from semi-shady people selling magazine subscriptions for "charity" or other random solicitations. We have a no soliting sign clearly visible on the door but it gets ignored. I think I've had a neighbor legit knock on my door or someone I knew maybe twice in 10 years (before that mostly lived in apartments that were secured and had only interior door access, so always answered as it was usually a neighbor.)
I do answer some of the time, but if I don't feel like it I won't. Not sure why that concept is so shocking to some GAFfers; sometimes I'm playing a game that I can't pause, sometimes I'm working from home and trying to concentrate, and sometimes I just don't care enough to deal with whoever it is.
I do answer some of the time, but if I don't feel like it I won't. Not sure why that concept is so shocking to some GAFfers; sometimes I'm playing a game that I can't pause, sometimes I'm working from home and trying to concentrate, and sometimes I just don't care enough to deal with whoever it is.
Berserking Guts
Member
Lot of door opening elitism in this thread I see. I wish I could be as cool as you door openers. I bet you people answer your phones too.
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Yes, I open the damn door. Good grief! There's tons of potential reasons someone might randomly knock on my door, and seeing how it basically never happens it's probably a good one. The neighbor could be having a heart attack for all I know, and dying on my doorstep. The building could be on fire. Maybe someone new moved in and - like a normal person - might want to introduce themselves. Maybe I'm making noise and not realising it.
The same people that think they need a gun for 'home defense'.
It's an entire culture living in straight fear of their fellow man. Someone knocking on their door makes them immediately jump to thoughts of home invasion and criminals. It's absurd.
At least, it's absurd in most countries.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Yes. I live in a shitty neighborhood in LA.
I keep the door open for the breeze. I have no AC
I keep the door open for the breeze. I have no AC
Lol only time I definitely don't answer is during Halloween if I'm home. My lights are off you little fuckers, ain't got no candy for you. It'd be too tedious to answer every time.
I'll sometimes not bother answering the door if I'm cooking or whatever but if I'm not busy why not? Takes 30 seconds to say I'm not interested if someone is trying to sell something.
I do not answer the phone if I don't know the number though since it's guaranteed to just be a waste of time or a scam.
I'll sometimes not bother answering the door if I'm cooking or whatever but if I'm not busy why not? Takes 30 seconds to say I'm not interested if someone is trying to sell something.
I do not answer the phone if I don't know the number though since it's guaranteed to just be a waste of time or a scam.
I get knocks on my door at least once a week; and over the last 10 years as I said it was a neighbor twice. Neither time was it anything urgent either. Maybe not everyone lives in the same kind of place as you.
ChimpBottle
Member
Yeah, I agree. I think I opened the door 3 times for people in the past year (Amazon and expected guests aside) and I've regretted it each time. I'm always inappropriately dressed, I have to calm my dog down and the marketers launch right into their speech without asking if I'm actually interested and I'm too timid to interrupt them.
Not that I blame them. When I was 16, I had a job as a door-to-door marketer as I needed a job and that commission. We knocked on doors until 10 o clock on weekdays though, which was kinda fucked.
Not that I blame them. When I was 16, I had a job as a door-to-door marketer as I needed a job and that commission. We knocked on doors until 10 o clock on weekdays though, which was kinda fucked.
Earlier today I saw a guy knocking on my neighbors door(from my bedroom window). They weren't home. He then came to my house and knocked. I could clearly see that he was holding a Comcast clipboard in his hand. Am I a bad person for not answering the door when I already know what he wants?
Evidently not. I live in Sweden. We treat any kind of interaction with strangers as a last resort - most of my neighbors might actually prefer death by heart attack over having to knock. Solicitors and other "undesirables" are kept at bay by the front door, through which none shall pass into the lobby.
You society sounds like hell.
Trigonometrize.
Member
I answered the door for a total stranger the other day. It was my new neighbor I found out, and I helped him mount his TV on his wall. Got to meet his cute kids, too.
Earthbound64
Banned
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Because 99% of the time it's an aggressive sales rep or a thief
There are drug addicts, homeless people and prostitutes regularly hanging out/wandering around a few blocks from my house. It's not really a bad neighborhood, but it's the reality of living near a major highway that has 24 hour public transit into an urban center in the US. Although Seattle has a particularly bad homeless/drug problem, partly due to the fact people are generous with panhandlers. (many make 30k+ a year and aren't homeless, but are still qutie sketchy)
MisterNoisy
Member
Jesus fuck, you people are nuts. Why wouldn't you answer the door?
Gordon Shumway
Banned
ChimpBottle
Member
Woah. That doesn't sound all that great either. I'm not one to go out seeking interactions with strangers, but when I do have them it's usually always positive. Having a cheery little interaction really can brighten your day.
Just remove the lock, or when in a 2nd world country go on any taxi claiming to be a taxi and don't lock the doors while doing selfies. Just trust people, don't be a crazy person!
It's crazy to me living in a constant fear in my damn home. I actually kinda feel sad for them.
Sometimes, I wonder if the reason we came up with a comprehensive social security network was to outsource helping each other to the kind of faceless government agency we're so much more comfortable with.
Just in case someone thinks I'm being literal, this is mostly hyperbole. But any Swede will tell you that the tendency is definitely there.
As do I. Just seems unhealthy.