GTKY Poll - Answering your door

missnacholover · August 2014

When someone knocks on your door (and you aren't expecting anyone/a package), do you answer?

missnacholover · August 2014

I just had someone POUND on my door. I didn't answer right away and they started ringing the doorbell. I didn't answer. Not really out of fear but because I'm rocking some compression socks with capris and a too-short Maternity shirt with my belly hanging out.

I usually answer, but if I'm home alone I may not.

hjenni · August 2014

I voted it depends. I have to look out the window. If it's someone I don't know and not a delivery guy I typically don't answer if I'm home alone.

Allisonville · August 2014

It depends on who it is and if I feel like answering the door.

Celticlass6 · August 2014

hjenni said:

I voted it depends. I have to look out the window. If it's someone I don't know and not a delivery guy I typically don't answer if I'm home alone.

I do this. Fortunately, you can't see through the windows of the door to see if I'm there or not.

Dannielle87 · August 2014

It depends. Usually if I'm home alone I don't. Also, I don't answer the door if it's noon and I'm still in jammies...lol.

FirstBabyDoyle · August 2014

I feel like lately we've gotten troves of Jehovah's witnesses. We never, ever answer the door. I appreciate their effort, but ehhh I just don't feel like it.

Kehlepop · August 2014

I voted sometimes. I'm too short to see out of the peephole, so DH has to be home and he will usually answer the door.

Nfranco973 · August 2014

SS I look out the window first.. If it ain't no one I know.. To hell with them lol

absolutelymaybe · August 2014

I hide upstairs and let the dogs bark and attack the front window. We don't have family or friends that would randomly stop by, so if it is unexpected it is probably a solicitor.

jac409 · August 2014

Depends if DH is home. If it is a woman, I would probably answer it, but not for a man.

wallygirl · August 2014

Depends on if I know them or not and if DD and I are home alone. Our family and friends normally call first so it is rare that we get someone unexpected that I will actually answer the door for. I think unexpected company is rude.

MalachiteDrake · August 2014

I have general social anxiety disorder, so most of the time I'm too freaked out to answer the door even if it's obvious why the person is there. We also don't generally lock our doors, so friends and family know to just knock and call out as they walk in to let us know that they're there. I'm also very rarely ever home alone (my mother lives with my husband and I and she rarely goes out without me).

Curlyfries851 · August 2014

Ugh rarely. There's waaaaaay too many people peddling stupid shit in my neighbourhood...

Kristil2014 · August 2014

I generally don't answer the door unless I am expecting something.

mander82 · August 2014

If I can tell it's someone I know by looking out the window, then I don't open the door. One glance at the driveway is all I need.

smboswell1 · August 2014

I voted it depends! I always check to see who it is. At my house, our friends and family just walk in! So, we hardly hear the doorbell ring.

lizgrace03 · August 2014

I guess I'm the oddball. I do answer the door usually.

alibissell · August 2014

I never answer the door. In fact I avoid it like the plague! If my DH is home I give him the option. I've watched too many movies and have too vivid an imagination!

runningmama14 · August 2014

I live out in the country. Closest neighbor is 1/2 a mile away. We have a gate on our driveway which is closed most of the time.

If someone knocks on our door, I don't really have a choice not to answer as we don't have curtains and have huge picture windows on the front of the house. That being said, we have never had solicitors or someone we don't know show up. Most family and friends know the gate code and let themselves into the gate, most other people can't get up to the house :-)

MrsG1019 · August 2014

Unless it's fed ex/ups or mailman.... or of course someone I recognize.. Then no. Never. I hate hearing sales pitchs or dealing with the awkwardness of having to tell a random stranger no thank you a million times.

missnacholover · August 2014

There is a JW worship center (not sure of the proper term? church? Temple?) about .25 mile from our house so they are CONSTANTLY coming around and leaving flyers and shit on our door. I have told them time and time again that we are Catholic, have found Jesus, etc. and still, they come around. Once I was listening to their ramblings and my husband came over and said "I'm sorry. My wife is far too polite to tell you to get lost, but we aren't interested." and shut the door. I felt kind of bad, but they STILL come around.

wildflower75 · August 2014

I voted SS because living in an apt building in NYC, no one ever knocks on your door.
They ring the bell and they have to ring it again to get inside the second door. So i will use the intercom to see who it is before having to deal with anyone right at my door.

Dumbgurl04 · August 2014

I will sometimes open the door. Since we live at the end of a cul de sac we don't get a lot of vistors (besides the annoying religious people, salesman, or policatal people) It just seems like you have to be careful now a days with all these crazies out

mommymeg143 · August 2014

I voted it depends! I usually peek out the window to see who it is. I will usually open for anyone except for my neighbor. She is SO annoying. She seriously stops by at least 3 times a week to tell me that I NEED to host a party for the "Ladies of the Republican Party", it's my turn, etc.. #1. She is the president of this "club" and the president of our home owners association. #2. I'm not a member of this club. #3. I've NEVER been to one of the parties or shown any interest. She taped an invitation to my door last week for me to approve. It was an invitation for a party hosted at my house next month. I've had numerous conversations with her where I told her I was NOT interested and she keeps on. WTF.

meeshybee · August 2014

I have no choice. All the kids, but especially DD2, will scream for me that someone is at the door. There's no point in trying to hide.

creativesoul83 · August 2014

I voted it depends. It depends on if I am decent and normally have my gun in my hand behind the door or on the back of my pants. I keep the glass door locked.
I had one man try to open it I pointed my gun at him and said to stop. poor older man was a financial services agent for the elderly and mistook my house for my neighbors. he showed me his card and id then told him the right house.
I am home alone often due to opposite schedules.

JustJainey · August 2014

People don't accidentally end up at our house. It's at the edge of a very small village and we have a 200' drive, so if someone goes to all the effort to drive up and come to the house they typically have a purpose. Sometimes it's the roaming evangelists, but usually it's a delivery of some kind or a neighbour. Friends don't typically stop by without calling, just because it's too out of the way to risk if we'll be home or not. I usually just look out the front window to see if I recognize the car. It happens so infrequently that I'm generally curious to see who's here

amberej · August 2014

It depends. I really don't like to have any expected company, just how I am. If I haven't been out of the house all day odds are I'm still in my pjs and have no bra on so if I do open the door they may don't like what they see! Lol.

sparklingwhit · August 2014

Depends on the time of day and whether I am willing to put a bra on.

CrisDee · August 2014

creativesoul83 said:

I voted it depends. It depends on if I am decent and normally have my gun in my hand behind the door or on the back of my pants. I keep the glass door locked. I had one man try to open it I pointed my gun at him and said to stop. poor older man was a financial services agent for the elderly and mistook my house for my neighbors. he showed me his card and id then told him the right house. I am home alone often due to opposite schedules.

Wow! Where do you live? I just can't imagine living somewhere I felt that unsafe. Granted, when my husband is away, I have been known to accidentally leave the keys in out front door or forget to close the front door on warm nights.

absolutelymaybe · August 2014

MeganMullikin said:

I voted it depends! I usually peek out the window to see who it is. I will usually open for anyone except for my neighbor. She is SO annoying. She seriously stops by at least 3 times a week to tell me that I NEED to host a party for the "Ladies of the Republican Party", it's my turn, etc.. #1. She is the president of this "club" and the president of our home owners association. #2. I'm not a member of this club. #3. I've NEVER been to one of the parties or shown any interest. She taped an invitation to my door last week for me to approve. It was an invitation for a party hosted at my house next month. I've had numerous conversations with her where I told her I was NOT interested and she keeps on. WTF.

Holyshitballs! That is unreal. I'd be putting up a giant "VOTE HILARY 2016" billboard for my yard to see if that stops her.

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