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No, this is just completely wrong and ridiculous. People did this all the time until txting was common. Once txt was common there was no reason to just drop by

• phone8675309 3y ago
  What makes your lived experience more correct than the lived experience of my grandparents and parents who lived in the time? Once the telephone was popular in the US this was something that people in our circle just stopped doing. All it took was a 30 second phone call to say "hey, can if I head over if you're not busy?" (and the answer was almost always yes, I'll agree that is likely different than today) to make sure, so that was considered the polite thing to do in our working class semi-rural midwest circle. If you're living truly in a rural area where you're sharing a party line with others and the nearest place is over a mile away then yes, I'll concede, that was probably much more normal.
  • asciimov 3y ago
    It’s neat how there can be vast differences both regionally and within social circles. Here in Texas (I’ve been in central, west, and panhandle) dropping by was common through even the mid-2000s. While I don’t do this much anymore, for my parents and their friend groups it is still done. Of course there are some unwritten rules and some people that you do call ahead, but for many it’s still an acceptable practice.