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[quote=Anonymous]The previous comment makes perfect sense to me.  That person works at a hospital during the night time, you know, that place you go when "you have a heart attack at  3 am"? You've heard of hospitals, right?  Then they sleep at home during the day.

Back to the OP, all you people bashing SAHMs and their children's naps need to get a grip. No, the world doesn't revolve around them any more than it revolves around you. But I think, on a person's own private property, just as at a private workplace, people should have the right to a little peace and the right to be free from constant trespassers and aggressive, scary strangers casing the joint and/or selling things (I'm NOT talking about legit deliveries).  A stay at home parent is someone who works (yes, and works hard) out of their home. Try watching a couple of babies/toddlers for the day and see for yourself.  Would you all tolerate aggressive, sleazy, basically criminal-looking strangers barging onto your job sites, more or less trying to force their way in and hawk their crap in the most confrontational way possible?

I live an older neighborhood (not McMansions or even close) and here's what happens: sleazy companies (actually, companies might be too strong of a word) drive VANLOADS of people in from the city.  They drop off their vanload of "solicitors" on foot who then canvass the neighborhood, running through yards and ringing doorbells.  Sometimes they stand in my driveway making cell phone calls.  I've had people selling home improvement, landscaping, cleaning products, maid services, etc., and undoubtedly had criminals who were just trying to figure out whether my house would be worth breaking into.

This happens about 3 times a week.

I could put up a No Soliciting sign or disconnect my doorbell, and I'm thinking about it. But I've had solicitors banging with their fists on the door when I didn't answer the doorbell.  And I think a "No Soliciting" sign would get about as much respect.  Our next door neighborhood puts out his "Beware of Dog" sign when the solicitors come (he has two little shih tsu's - although they are mean dogs). Calling the police would be sort of pointless -- as someone said, they would already be gone by the time the police got here. If we DON'T answer the door, they get more aggressive and bang -- and probably hit us up again later.  I had one person show up at my house 3 or 4 days in a row until I finally answered the doorbell and told him if I saw him again, I was calling the police. If we DO answer the doorbell to tell them to leave, as some posters have pointed out, we're "encouraging" them because now they know we're home.

It's basically the in-person version of spammers.  It's scary.

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