Kids playing knock-a-door-run

Georgiegirl256

maman wrote: »

Postman's knock was a totally different game where I come from;).

Same here!

Bitsy_Beans

lostinrates wrote: »

I genuinely didn't. ( though wasn't perfect)

And if I had and my parents had been told I would have been given a huge lecture about how it might have impacted on the people and then wouldn't have been punished.

That said, I'm not a parent, I'd be interested in what parents here would say and do if someone accused their children of it.

I didn't either, didn't see what was funny about it and too frightened of what my mum would have said if I had been caught doing it :eek:

If my kids were caught doing it now I would be livid with them. To me it's just not funny, wasn't when i was a kid nor as an adult.

And in a West Mids it was knock and run

DSmiffy

We did it once persistently on this house one evening......until he came marching out the front door with a big hammer!!! Never did it again. He must have been laughing his head off.

PurplePow

'Knocky Nine Doors' for us - don't ask what the nine was for, don't have a clue!

We dared each other to occasionally knock on a door we called 'Jesus' (guy with long beard) because he'd come out and run after the knocker all the way down the street, occasionally getting in his car and driving around the block searching for us!

PurplePow

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

We used to call it knocky eye doors in Cumbria. Although I'm not sure if it's regional on not because there's a letter in our local paper this week about it happening, and the kids seem to be mainly targeting elderly folk....which I think is disgusting. :mad: The guy who wrote the letter calls it Nicky knocky nine doors.

Aha! 'Knocky Nine Doors' it was for me in the north east so must be a northern thing.

dandelionclock30

OP just ignore them, its not a major issue, they are not putting fireworks through the letterbox are they?
They want you to go shouting out, running after them etc, its part of their game.
Lighten up a bit.

Violetta_2

Chickenelly it was called when I was a bairn. It is annoying though so fingers crossed that is them stopped.