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> my doorbell (which I answer if I'm expecting someone) My would you not answer if you don't expect someone? Pranks? Sellers? I have never experienced any door
by rightbyte 3y ago
> my doorbell (which I answer if I'm expecting someone)
My would you not answer if you don't expect someone? Pranks? Sellers? I have never experienced any door knockers that are obnoxious, except one seller once. Mostly it is friends, neighbours or missionaries who are unannounced.
- Spinnaker_ 3y agoDepends on the neighbourhood. I moved recently and now a salesman or charity is a 3-4x a week occurrence for me. I also get a bunch of teens selling various goods that I'm 90% sure are stolen, in order to raise money for their education.
- monetus 3y agoNot the OP, but, I once fought off a robbery with a fencing hammer, that started that way. Maybe look for balaclavas before you open the door.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoWho doesn't look for balaclavas before they open the door?
- Waterluvian 3y agoIt’s my time. I will regularly just not answer the door even if they’re looking right at me through the bay window.
- cwkoss 3y agoDoor to door solicitation is obnoxious even if the people are polite, IMO.
- CameronNemo 3y agoDoes solicitation include political lobbying?
- baseballdork 3y agoYes
- CameronNemo 3y agoSolicitation is the act of offering, or attempting to purchase, goods and/or services. Can you explain how talking to my neighbors about important social issues falls under that criteria?
- shadowgovt 3y agoNo, because if you're going to try and start that conversation I'm not going to answer the door. ;)
- CameronNemo 3y agoYou sound like a pleasant person to be around. /s
- lazide 3y agoA neighbor talking to their neighbors about actual important political issues isn’t typically what people don’t like. People they don’t know trying to convince them they should care about a political issue they don’t care about or they are terrible and bad people is what people don’t like. It’s usually the second one, even if someone thinks it’s the first one.
- wccrawford 3y agoEven before I had door cameras, I would just not answer the door if I wasn't expecting someone. Everyone I know would know enough to call or text before coming over, and anyone in an emergency would keep knocking. I've had plenty of obnoxious salespeople and other solicitors, especially religious ones. They even have the nerve to claim that they aren't soliciting because they're not selling anything for money. And none of them have the good sense to accept that they're bothering someone that is obviously not happy that their door was knocked on. Unless I'm already in a really bad mood, I generally start off nice, but I turn serious as soon as they refuse to take the first 'no'. Except for the ones I argue with for a while to waste their time and energy.
- joejerryronnie 3y agoFriends and neighbors are the primary people I don’t answer the door for.
- MiddleEndian 3y agoIf I'm not expecting someone to ring my doorbell (or call me on the phone, which is certainly rarer), my phone is on silent. So I simply wouldn't notice unless I happen to be looking at my phone. I have my other communication (mostly FB Messenger, but also Discord and SMS/MMS) set up to work on my computer, so I rarely look at my phone at home. Also I live in a condo, nobody can really "knock on my door" unless it's someone who lives in my building, in which case I'll answer.
- karaterobot 3y agoI don't answer the door unless the caller knocks more than once. If it's only one knock, I assume it's someone dropping off a package or asking for money, which accounts for about 95% of cases. If I do answer the door, I'm almost never glad I did, though. My neighbors have my number, and generally text me before coming over. My thought is that you knocking on my door does not oblige me to stop what I'm doing and answer it, any more than someone saying, "sir, do you have a minute for..." while I'm walking down the street obliges me to stop and hear their sales pitch, or seeing an unknown caller on the phone means I ought to pick it up.