Home By Yourself-Knock At Door

So, if you're home by yourself and you hear a knock at the door and you look out the window (without being seen) and you know you don't know the person, do you answer the door?

That just happened and I didn't answer and I never do. If I know the person, sure and if hubby is home, it's different story but if it's just me and a small kid, or just me... I do not answer.

Wondering how many other people also do not answer. Way I see it is, it's probably not some psycho killer- but it could be and if it's not, it's not someone I know and want to talk to anyways so... no loss not answering.

 

I'm always home alone...


If someone knocks on my door I figure they are totally fuggin lost.

 

Haha.... I'd rather think that than think "maybe it's someone coming to cut the baby out of me" (I hate that I've seen shows about that happening cause it pops in my head at times like that).

:yikes:

 

I sometime do and sometime don't.
Now my wife,,,, sheesh, she won't answer the door but will turn the lights off as if nobody is home.....I know, I know, but I still love her.
she doesn't seem to get that if you want folks to think nobody is home, DON'T TURN OFF THE LIGHTS OR TRY TO WHISPER!!!!

The other thing she will do is answer the door and then I hear " I don't know, let me get my husband" AAAGHHHHH!!!!!
I usually piss her off by walking out, saying "not interested" and walking back in.

One time she could not say no to some Mexican guys selling horseshit to put on the lawn. so they showed up next day with a truck full of horse crap.
Knowing how the machismo Mexican male mind works, I just told them I didn't want it, they said "but sir, your wife ordered it" I just looked at them and said "she's just a woman, she doesn't know what she's talking about".
The guy says, "Oh, I understand sir, sorry." and they left. LOL

 

You’re thread reminds me of the short story Knock by Fredric Brown

“The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door”



Hotwater

 

I actually looked that up. It's actually "The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..."

But, yea, that's creepy.

 

I just realized why it's really not scary though. It said last man. Not last woman.

 

I read it ages ago.

The story-line involved the invasion of the earth and while the opening line is highly suggestive; the aliens were wise enough to spared at least one women to serve as a companion.

Hotwater

 

When I used to live in the boonies I would never answer the door. You couldn't really see the house from the road and it creeped me out because if it was an unsavory character at the door there would be no witnesses. I would go in my bedroom and be very quiet until they went away.

I live in a pretty visible location now so I don't really mind answering the door. The couple of times we've had random knocks while living here it ended up being people whose cars broke down in front of my house.

 

Yeah, it’s kind of interesting to look back and see the evolution of my responses to a knock at the door. In my twenties, I just got up and answered the door. In my thirties, I first looked out the window to see who it was before opening the door. In my forties, I got up and looked to see who it was, and if I didn’t recognize them, I wouldn’t answer; if I did recognize them, I’d think to myself, “What the fuck are they doing here, and why didn’t they fucking call first?” And then I’d decide whether or not it made sense to see them, and then respond accordingly. In my fifties, I’d look to see who was knocking, and if I didn’t recognize them, they weren’t getting in, and if I did recognize them, they weren’t getting in.

It works the same with the phone. If I don’t recognize the number on the caller-ID, I don’t answer it. And if I do recognize the number, well . . . that’s what voice-mail is for.

 

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Sure, why wouldn't I get the door?

In general, I can't see any reason I wouldn't get it. What's the worst that could reasonably happen? I don't mind people, I generally like them. If it's someone I don't want to talk to and I'm not obviously home, of course, I might feign absence, but that's on a case by case basis.

I would prefer handle business in person, than over the phone. I don't like being spied upon. As far as I'm concerned it's more polite to go somewhere, than to screw around with high school crap and phones and maybe showing and maybe not, and whatnot. There's exceptions, like with the baby-momma, or people who are similarly in my life against my will or without my consent or by default and not choice or whatever, but they're exceptions, not the rule.


Broony, you might want to edit that last part, before it becomes permanent public record....

 

Too late!!

What's your number, Broony? PM me!!!! And don't worry; your secret's safe with me . . .

 

AT, you might want to put up a "no solicitations" sign.

i'll usually answer the door, but it's also usually someone i don't want to talk to.

 

I used to answer the door all the time, but with the pregnancy I feel more vulnerable so now I do only if the man is home with me or I expect a visitor.

 

There are ways to keep the public at bay....

Hotwater

 

land shark

 

of course i answer the door. if it's someone i don't know, my curiosity won't allow me to not know what they want. if it's someone i do know, my curiosity won't allow me to not know what they want.

i'm the same way with the phone. if i am able to answer the phone, i answer it. i can't comprehend how people can just let it ring. you really have no interest in why someone would take the time to call you?

 

I keep my screen door locked anyway so I'm likely to open the wooden door. If I thought about not answering the door because it's someone I don't know I would then probably get to thinking....what if they're knocking to see if anybody is home so they can then break in if there isn't.
Totally irrational I know.

 

Bunch of fuckin' hermits in here.

The more I think about it, I jump at the door, it's exciting that someone actually wants to see me.

You guys should invest in peep-holes, love mine (but put a flap over it that you lift to look through, so they can't see it darken with your shadow as you approach, or with some of them, actually see you).


How can you just not care and not wonder? What if somebody needs help, there's somebody bleeding out from a car crash and the other guy's looking for a phone? What if you' cat's on fire? What if there's some type of accident or spill or something? What if a grand piano fell on your mom? How the FUCK can you just NOT get the door without at least knowing that it's someone you actively want to avoid?