Answering the door

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i only answer the buzzer if i'm expecting someone.

who doesn't answer their door when someone rings/buzzes/knocks wtf

I find myself constitutionally unable to ignore a knock at the door. My social conditioning so overwhems me that even when I know it's someone awful (Mormons, landlord, policeman wanting to talk about the children) I just HAVE to get up and answer it.

i would have friends where I would go to their house and their roommates would be chillin in the living room as I banged on the fuckn door because they werent expecting someone wtf

The ubiquity of cell phones has kinda cut down on that whole "dropping in" thing, you have to admit.

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When I was a stoner and consumed by paranoia, almost never. Now, sure, why not?

The ubiquity of cell phones has kinda cut down on that whole "dropping in" thing, you have to admit.

― nabisco, Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban

Because cell phones always work so good in people's apartments

so well.

the only people who knock on my door unexpectedly are 1) Jehovah's Witnesses 2) crackhead who wants to mow my yard, or borrow (umm, right) my mower to cut a neighbor's grass 3) perpetually broke, alcoholic friend of my ex-ex-gf who wants to go drink at 2:15 on a Sunday afternoon

under no circumstances do i ever open the door without a head's up on who it is

I am not a stoner and consumed by paranoia, almost never.

x-post otm

Thread provoked by us both being in various states of unpresentableness (having been to respective gyms) and being in no way prepared to answer a doors.

+ on 24/12 of any year it's almost certainly going to be a charity.

Answering the door and getting rid of whoever it was if you didn't want to see them > not answering and having niggling doubts as to who it might have been

i can't hear my front door from anywhere but the front room (which i'm never in), so if whoever it is doesn't know my phone number or i'm not expecting them their sad lonely knock won't be responded to

Sorry, Whiney, I guess I am unfamiliar with Brooklyn apartment dead zones. (I still think you gotta agree that, you know, cell phones = people in general do not just drop by like they used to.)

The building I used to live in was eight stories with a great big buzzer board, and outside of the hours when you might be getting a package delivered, 100% of unexpected buzzes were not worth getting up for -- mostly clumsy-finger wrong-button leaned-against-the-wall junk (with maybe the very rare person trying to get up in the lobby to rob someone). If you didn't get up, most of them wouldn't ring again. If you did get up, chances were you'd get into a convoluted thing where nobody can hear anybody and some dude downstairs is positive you're his friend Marco.

The building I live in now has a camera/buzzer, so I would probably answer just to look at whoever it was. I can only think of one time there was an unexpected buzz, though, and it was some weird middle-of-the-night European women who said "a friend" told them there were rooms available in my building. (When told that wasn't true, they started buzzing other people, until eventually I had to go down and try to explain how it's considered rude/weird in America to stand outside a building at midnight buzzing every apartment and asking if you can sleep there.)

This neighborhood seems to be crawling with Jehovah's Witnesses so I always look through the blinds to see if it's them before I will answer the door. Even if it was Prince.

We have an entryphone and without fail, JWs buzz Sundays at 11 or so; I delight in telling them 'no hawkers'.

jehovah's witnesses have only come to my door once in my life. usually if someone knocks it's either a locked out roommate, a package delivery, or kids selling something.

I do not answer for JWs.

most of y'all have no manners

ie

who doesn't answer their door when someone rings/buzzes/knocks wtf

― omg grapeHOOS superman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

90% of unexpected doorbell is some sketchy dude pretending to be con-ed around here. no one ever just drops in, i'm always at least KIND of expecting someone otherwise.

^^^

So many are selling shit that it's just not worth it anymore.

gbx I agree, but in bigger cities you usually call ahead. I only have a handful of people I'll randomly drop in on.

There is a big NO HAWKERS OR SOLICITING sign in the lobby of my building in London so they try to ring the bell to gain admittance. Sometimes JWs are admitted by other residents who are either Christian or JW, and they should know better. I like to answer, if only to tell them 'no thanks' and that the resident who let them in is violating the terms of their tenancy.

A couple of months ago we got a guy going door to door offering to buy 'old gold' (from, I assume, old ladies); he leafleted in the AM and came back after lunch to find police waiting to tell him to fuck off for good.

yeah i mean i answer the door for these cats and tell em i'm not interested is all

once i was guilted into purchasing a subscription to parenting magazine but that is the extent of my fuckin w/these people

Answering the landline would be a better poll. I never answer the landline these days cos it stresses me out that I can't tell who it is.

once i was guilted into purchasing a subscription to parenting magazine but that is the extent of my fuckin w/these people

― omg grapeHOOS superman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol you really fucked w/them good, they probably berated themselves for days.

fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of "fuckin w/"

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Who's there?

wait where is that thread where i told you guys about my roommate and i inviting the vacuum salesman in and having him hang out and shoot BBs with the vacuum on full power

i think it was in the sandbox

i think that was an old DC thread and we made you take pictures of the vacuum guy????

yes! they are still in my flickrs

that was a really good story, i was into it.

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whats that penis sticking out of dude's head

xp nev mind

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loadin BBs, dog all smelling stuff

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this guy hated his job so much

if you had the neighbor i did, you wouldn't answer the door either. voted ban deeznuts.

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L-R: my car (covered in bird shit), sad bored salesman waiting for his ride, box with his vacuum cleaner

also i love the vacuum dude story

if you had the neighbor i did do ;_;

i hope SOMEBODY ended up buying that vacuum from that poor dude

peopel be just pressing every buzzer on box all the time. fuck answering a buzzer.

I have an entryphone and a buzzer, though the latter doesn't always work. I'll *usually* pick up the phone unless it's the middle of the night. If it's random nutjobs, I can always hang up. Maybe it's rude to hang up on an entryphone, but I think it's pretty rude to ring the doorbell of random strangers.

Usually it is actually the dude come to read the meters, though. Which I like because otherwise they charge me an arm and a leg if they estimate.

i mean maybe it's also worth pointing out here that i'm the type of dude that always answers the phone whether i recognize the number or not.

"maybe it's a new friend!!!"

who doesn't answer their door when someone rings/buzzes/knocks wtf

― omg grapeHOOS superman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i barely answer my phone when i recognize the #

how does you barely answer???

"hel..."

yes. i say "hell" into the phone and then hang up. it's weird that ppl keep calling.

what fresh hell is this?

Our entryphone buzzer is REALLY farking loud so we actually can't not hear it. I think that's half the reason we don't respond to it.

99% of the time it will be someone i don't know and/or don't want to see. the other 1% can call my fucking phone (which gets reception. or if it doesn't OMG WTF I AM NOT ABLE TO BE GOTTEN A HOLD OF THE VERY SECOND YOU WISH O WHAT A WORLD WHAT A WORLD). the whole point of having a private dwelling is so you can choose who you want to have contact with and when.

99% of the time it will be someone i don't know and/or don't want to see. the other 1% can call my fucking phone (which gets reception. or if it doesn't OMG WTF I AM NOT ABLE TO BE GOTTEN A HOLD OF THE VERY SECOND YOU WISH O WHAT A WORLD WHAT A WORLD). the whole point of having a private dwelling is so you can choose who you want to have contact with and when.

^^^^^

I honestly can't think of a single time in the past 10 years when someone I actually know has unexpectedly turned up ringing my buzzer.

This really makes me wonder why, 90% of the time, I have still bothered getting up and checking who's buzzing. Like a whole accumulated 10 hours of my life spent going "who is it?" and getting dead air or incomprehensible mumbling in return, or trying to convince people that seriously, I would know if a dude named Marco lived with me, and he doesn't, unless your friend Marco is a cockroach.

oh man poor marco, his family treats him so bad.

i cant think of a time someone i DONT know has actually knocked on my door

say hi to the other inmates for me

Open package and give 'em a HELICOPTER

it's true tho brooklyn drop-bys are another bag altogether. altho the last few times it was my boyfriend locked out.

99% of the time it will be someone i don't know and/or don't want to see. the other 1% can call my fucking phone (which gets reception. or if it doesn't OMG WTF I AM NOT ABLE TO BE GOTTEN A HOLD OF THE VERY SECOND YOU WISH O WHAT A WORLD WHAT A WORLD). the whole point of having a private dwelling is so you can choose who you want to have contact with and when.

an acquaintance of mine has been showing up unexpectedly (and unwelcome-ly) at an increasingly frequent rate over the past year or so. when i tried ignoring the doorbell, he went round and banged on the window, and then came back every half hour for another couple of hours. it's never anything important, and he never bothers to ask if it's a good time before coming over. this happened three days in a row last week, at which point i felt compelled to e-mail him to let him know that he really must ask me first before coming over. very sick of having my evenings regularly interrupted by his surprise visits.

Man, you people have some shitty friends. I do have a friend who... vvveerrryy occasionally drops by, because she lives down the road (this is such a novelty in a large city like London) But she usually does text first.

I love it when random friends drop by - OK, wait, it is the visit that is random, not the friend.

But it's rare. I'd get annoyed if it happened ALL. THE. TIME.

I'm the first flat in the building and fuckers always buzzing my buzzer to get let in. I do not answer. I just watch them on the videophone until they go away.

i only answer the buzzer if i'm expecting someone food

You phone out for Pizza.

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you rang?

In keeping with my lack of a cell phone, I generally yell "Go away."

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Beware of Morb

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the other aspect of mobile phone ubiquity is that many people don't have landlines, so if their phone's not working for whatever reason (dead zone, ringer off, whatever) there is no alternative to just droppin on in

If someone rings the bell when I'm not expecting anyone, I can look out the bay window in the living room and see them on the steps and decide whether I want to engage with them or let them think I am not at home.

I've come to believe that hiding from the doorbell is just one more avoidant personality trait that doesn't help anyone, least of all myself.

I just don't want to have to walk down the stairs when I can tell somebody to fuck off from right over their head.

A shop near my old work which is run by ESLs has a mat out the front that says NOT WELCOME and they just lay a bit of paper over the word NOT.

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small old shadout mapes lady just at the door was a lovely old dear, but probably the worst saleswoman ever. Didn't even bother telling me what she was selling, just a forlorn "Hiya luv, do you wanna buy owt?"... it could have been anything. Yes, weapons grade plutonium please. and some pegs.

shadout mapes

Read the books and seen the movie but I still had to google that - impressive.

bet she had a PS4 and you've missed out

standard fantasy trope- you always buy what a wizened old lady is selling, and you never take up a wizened old guy's invitation to fight him.

She was selling the spice.

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fuckin mormons or some shit

ha ledge as soon as i typed that i fukn knew someone would go there.

don't be silly, tho- that's shit's only a story

Attention people canvassing door to door for nebulous kids' charity, ignoring the 'no pedlars' sign in a private block less than 500 feet from the world's most famous paediatric hospital: UR DOIN IT RONG.

hey dm, what area of Dublin do you live in. I'm curious b/c I used to live in Rathmines & I honestly can't remember a single peddler dropping by - then again, I did live on the fourth floor, so I actually prob missed out on a bevy of incredible bargains.

sban

uh, am I wrong about you living in Dublin? sry whatevs

:) it's a 'thing'

i'm out in the sticks way out west.

i doubt v much that somewhere plush as rathmines would be a profitable calling ground for door-to-door sellers alright.

If "plush" entails a nightmare of broken & leaking plumbing & a "furnace" that our deadbeat landlord actually once "fixed" w/ rubber bands & a ballpoint pen before once again disappearing for weeks at a time w/o heat in the dead of winter, then I'd hate to endure the conditions in some of the seedier areas! At least out there you can burn peat chips or something ;)

no sympathy for jackeens, if ye want to live on top of each other that close to the brits ye have it coming imo.