Answering a knock at the door

pollypenny

As Dunroamin, said, on page 1, it seems a bit strange not to answer the door. I wouldn't answer in the middle of the night, unless I heard a friend or neighbour calling me. Otherwise, yes.

Abbafan1972

FunWithFlags wrote: »

I used to answer the door to anyone and everyone lol but a guy who knocked the other day creeped me out a fair bit so now I only answer to people I am expecting.

The guy the other day knocked and said he worked as a sports instructor offering classes in different sports and would anyone in the house be interested. I said that we might be and he offered to drop off some information about the classes. I was a little confused because surely he would have a leaflet of some sort with him already with types of classes and times on and I queried it. He then said he would have to come in the house and give a presentation first. At that point alarm bells went off in my head and I had a closer look at him: generic sports gear (no club name etc), clipboard with a blank piece of paper on, no leaflets (certainly no presentation information!) etc. I just told him I didn't have time for a presentation but would be happy to take a leaflet or something but as soon as I said that, his face closed down and he walked off to knock on the next house. My OH thought I was over reacting when I told him about it but at the time I was convinced he wanted to get in the house to either check what stuff we had worth taking or to actually rob me then and there.

I get jumpy when I'm home alone with the little one though!

You did the right thing FWF, it's up to you who you let into your house and he sounded right shifty!

I only tend to answer the door if I'm expecting someone. I usually just move the blinds slightly to see if it's a delivery man or the postie. If it's not any of these then I just ignore it. I will always know when my parents will be coming round.

The miserable old cow next door has been having an extension done and all different tradesmen have been turning up. There's been a few of them that cannot seem to press the right doorbell! Our front doors are right next to each other and our bell push is on a shared bit of plastic that runs in between and her bell push is on the other side of her door. I even bought some sticky numbers to put underneath our bell to show that it was for number xxx, but someone still managed to ring our bell for next door! :mad: