Do you answer the door if someone knocks?

[Anonymous]

Friends and family text and then will go around back and knock on the patio door. I know that anyone knocking on the front door is a stranger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not. Hubby does.

+1. I finally trained him to check the camera first.

[Anonymous]

I"m lucky and live in a multi-story townhouse. If I"m not expecting someone, I don't answer or I look out from the window one or two stories above the front door and open the window to talk. Not opening the door to someone I don't know.

The few times it's late at night it's actually been a neighbor with a problem, but I figured that out from a conversation on the second floor and then went down and let them in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love the comedy routine. Have seen before and it always makes me laugh. Times have changed and what used to be friendly is not poor etiquette or even rude. You don't go knocking on doors to introduce yourself unless the person's door is already open and the screen is the only thing closed. You can leave a welcome gift and a note, but it is rude to expect someone to drop everything for you. We moved with an infant. The younger neighbors all were lovely introducing themselves when they saw up strolling around the neighborhood. Some elderly neighbors introduced themselves by ringing the doorbell multiple times or knocking furiously always either waking the baby, interrupting breastfeeding or getting me while I am in the bathroom. If I actually made it to the door eventually to stop the barrage of noise, I got the judgmental look for looking like something a cat drags in. Yeah, some welcome to the neighborhood. Even worse one asked "Why didn't you answer the door sooner, can't you hear?"

Sorry, in 2019 well-mannered people still knock on new neighbors doors with a small welcome gift to introduce themselves. You can choose not to answer. The old people probably rang repeatedly because they saw your car and knew you were home and old people always want to answer the door so it didn’t occur to them that you were trying to ignore. OTOH, OP, it is very weird for a new neighbor to knock around and introduce herself. That’s just odd and not-done.

This varies immensely from region to region. I would laugh my ass off if someone tried this in my NYC apartment building.

X1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I talk through the mail slot only.

I just pictured a big pair of lips coming out of a mail slot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a very safe community in Southern California (no “diversity” or nearby homeless etc, we generally feel very safe) and we don’t open the door either. Let alone at night.

Door to door salespeople, religious nuts etc are not welcome. Friends would call first.

This, but in Arlignton.