Answering a knock at the door

Torry_Quine

I'm surprised at the amount of people who don't have the door locked during the day. Mine is always locked with the key easily got.

*Louise*

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I'm surprised at the amount of people who don't have the door locked during the day. Mine is always locked with the key easily got.

My mum was told off by a policeman for not locking her door when she is in the house :rotfl:

I have a time frame for answering the door - mornings will be parcel deliverys, lunchtime will be the postman. Anything early afternoon could be a courier (I often take stuff in for the neighbours as well)

From around 4pm till 7pm I tend to not answer because that's when the sales people are out and about, and this street is quite bad for them. I will have a peek out the window 'just in case'.

If hubby's in - he answers the door.:T

As for Jehova's - we have a Kingdom Hall just down the hill so they are often about. I don't answer the door to them but will pass the time of day if I'm out in the garden out of politeness.

cabriolean

:eek:6 other members of my family live in the same house as me, I normally take a quick peek from a window, if I don't recognise them and they don't seem to have a reason to be there or I don't like the look of them and I'm at home alone I probably won't answer the door and will watch them till they leave. If I'm at home alone I am most likely to answer the door to Asian people, the elderly, people I know, people who look significantly weaker than myself, people who are alone, teenagers who look around the ages of my younger sisters, postmen with parcels, black men/women of any age, white women, white men of less than 15 or above 40, and any other race.
Basically the less of a threat I perceive you as the more likely I am to open the door, most crime against white women is carried out by white men, I live in an affluent area with little racism as a result I am statistically more likely to be attacked by someone of my own race, most likely a male in his prime, it's factually true, so I don't feel like I am being racist in choosing not to answer the door to the people who have the highest statistical probability of attacking and/or being capable of physically overwhelming me (the statistics do take into account the varying numbers of each race where I live). I am much happier to answer the door to people when other people are with me, but unless I know them I will never answer the door to more people than are in the house and I don't like it when other people do it either.

Lotus-eater

Time_to_get_up_and_go wrote: »

Do you have to let meter readers in your property?

We had a meter reading about 2 weeks ago for gas and electric and then the following week another one came.

When I queried it the man was quite off with me and said he had it on his list so it had to be done.

Could I have refused it? I just don't like people wandering through my house to get to the meter etc

Yes you could have refused. I did last year.

I had one meter reading, a guy just turned up, I checked he was driving the right fully logo'd van, ID's are pointless now, so easy to fake. Let him in and he did the deed.
2 weeks later another guy turned up, I told him I'd just had a reading, but he was insistent, I said no, he said he was paid per reading, so please would I let him in. No.
I never heard another thing about it.

zaxdog

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I'm surprised at the amount of people who don't have the door locked during the day. Mine is always locked with the key easily got.

Not an issue here as don't have burglaries :rotfl:

looby75

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I'm surprised at the amount of people who don't have the door locked during the day. Mine is always locked with the key easily got.

why on earth would I need to lock the door when I'm awake and in the house?

redpete

Just to balance some of the (IMNSHO) extreme reactions expressed here, I'll answer the door most of the time, e.g. if I'm clothed and not engaged in a time-critical activity. If it's something I'm not interested in I'll tell them.

MiddyMum

Lotus-eater wrote: »

he said he was paid per reading, so please would I let him in.

This is a real eye opener, I thought they were paid a wage, no wonder they get quite pushy when you say you are busy at the moment.

snow_ball

My friends were in their house (upstairs) when thieves let themselves in through the unlocked front door and grabbed anything of value that they could run with. They weren’t in the house long, thankfully, and my friend who jumped out of the bath and threw on his bathrobe didn’t catch them. Could have been a lot worse than a relatively small insurance claim.

seven-day-weekend

mountainofdebt wrote: »

Glad I didn't knock on your door then to tell you that you'd left the door on your van wide open as I did one night this week or that you'd left your lights on as I've done previously.

As for the original question, if it's day time then I will answer it ut if night then I will look before opening the door.

And me. If I could not do my good deed I'd think sod you then! Hope your battery goes flat!

I always anwer the door in the daytime but ask who it is at night.

I do lock the front door when I am in the house if I am upstairs.