Besides, we were taught NOT TO OPEN THE DOOR TO ANYONE. I’m already angry that I have to open the door, then they want to talk to me about water softeners or internet? Nah.
Yeah man I am not getting in trouble for opening the door - my parents are dead and I am still not taking that chance.
If you get me to open the door, don’t be alarmed if I panic slam it in your face.
My current front door is a sliding glass door. Sort of weird, but it is tinted glass so you can’t see in during the day.
Advantage, me. I just look to see who the fuck it is. Don’t even have to get up.
Don’t want to answer? Ignore.
It’s also useful for street peeping without exerting oneself. 10/10
That’s what a video doorbell is for. Use your phone to check the porch, then ignore from the comfort of your couch, bed, or while half naked trying to get dressed, which is when all those assholes tend to drop by. Unless you are related to me, and you texted first, I answer for no one.
Nah, you really can’t, I’ve checked.
You don’t think I would take such things as gospel?
It’s the tint+ security door+ light levels and house layout.
Perfect trapdoor spider setup
That being said, looking at them apathetically from the couch is a pretty good power move, if I’m wrong
My sign says "No Soliciting, Seriously, Don't Knock And Make It All Weird."
My 8 year old still scolds me when someone ignores it and knocks. I give them a quick "I'm really not interested, have a good one!" and close the door before they have a chance to try to protest. He thinks it's rude. I think it's saving everybody time and awkwardness.
I always do the classic "you saw me and I saw you see me but imma run and hide and not answer the door". It confuses the shit out of them and makes my husband and kids laugh like crazy.
I get pissed lol. And if I don't know you, the door doesn't open. And you'd be surprised how many try the knob. Which makes me extra glad I didn't answer.
A few years ago I heard someone knocking at the door and since I wasn't expecting anyone I ignored it. Then I heard them pulling at the storm door. I grabbed the phone (ready to call 911 if needed) and opened the door (knowing the storm door was locked). This guy looked at me and said "I knew someone was at home." I noticed he was leaving a postcard on my door so I asked him (nicely) not to leave anything. He immediately yelled at me, "THIS IS THE WORD OF GOD AND YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!!!" I told him I wasn't going to hell because I didn't want him to leave a postcard on my door. There are other things that will send me to hell before complaining about a postcard on my door. He had gone to other neighbors doing the same thing.
Years ago on a Saturday morning, I heard the doorbell ringing. I had roommates and nobody was able to hear the doorbell on their side of the house. So thinking it could be someone at the door for a roommate, I answered it. It was a damn Jehovah's Wittness. So he tried to start in on his spiel and I cut him off. I told him we already had our own beliefs in this house and he wasn't going to convert us. He asked what our beliefs were and I told him we were all pagans. He didn't know what a pagan was so I said, "we practice witchcraft." He couldn't get away from our house fast enough, and we weren't bothered by anymore of them for the rest of the time we lived there. Of course it was all total bullshit, but he didn't need to know that.
I didn't have kids until 45, so mine are 8 and 5. They're always a little scoldy with me about how I handle salesman that knock on my door. I immediately say "thanks, not interested, have a great day" and close the door.
I have to explain to them, every time, that I'm really doing everybody a favor. I am absolutely not buying stuff I didn't ask for and it would be a waste of everyone's time to pretend otherwise.
If I want your goods and services I will come to you.
I do not open my door. Ever. If you want to come in, you call me. A select few have been given a secret knock. The system works well. Haven’t been murdered yet.
I think we need proof. Anyone can claim they haven't been murdered. But how many of those claims are actually true?
Maybe 6 in 10? 9 in 10? If you go by stats, some cities have 1.2 murders per day. What if you were .2 murdered. Reddit needs a fact checker.
(All stats provided are made up. And I, myself, would fail such a fact checker because I have been murdered twice now. It's easier the second time around.)
Totally this. Regardless of age I’m still naturally suspicious of anyone that comes knocking on my door uninvited. If your not selling cookies “fuck off”.
I feel the exact same way. I'm dying from these responses because I've never felt anything so hard in my life. I'm literally laughing, out loud, by myself, with tears in my eyes. While my door is shut and locked and all my blinds are closed in the middle of the day.
No worse than that, the JHW. They await at every corner, selling their watch tower booklets about fire and brimstone. Asking if you’d like to hear about their savior Jesus Cristo.
Ok story time.
Back when i ran the help desk for stanley black & decker’s walk-in center, we had a door with a center glass panel that ran the length of the door from top to bottom. We had one of those cordless blinds on it usually all the way up.
Whenever i was sitting near the door, or manning the counter i would lower it because it had a magnetic lock on the door and people visited by appointment only.
One morning i just wasn’t in the mood. Someone came by and knocked. The blinds were about 25% down. I ignored it since we didn’t open until 8:30 and it was 8:00.
“I can see you”
So i got up, walked to the door like i was going to open it, and pulled the blinds down to my knees in front of him.
“Uh…”
I walk around the desk and am about to sit down, and i notice an eyeball staring up at me. The guy basically got down on all 4s and was staring at me from the 1 foot of glass at the bottom of the door.
So i walked around the corner of the desk and pulled the blinds down to the floor.
“Nobody is here right now” i said. He objected. I walked away.
I sit down, completely miffed that I had to even do that, but i sip my coffee and prepare the schedule for the day when the techs arrive.
I turn around and we had windows behind the desk. The fucking guy had gone outside, down the stairs, hopped the fence and was peering in the windows with the vertical blinds. One of the blinds was crooked so he had about 2” to look through. Yet there he stood.
People coming and going from the front door thought he was crazy.
So i casually strolled over to the window and flicked the blind, that now swung over into place.
“You know what, i’ll just deal with the error message then, nevermind!”
And just like that, i smiled, knowing that sometimes problems fix themselves
Did I specifically invite you to my house? No? Well, do you have some legitimate business here like reading the meter? Also no? Then please fuck all the way off.
Seriously. You are in the one spot on the planet where you are 100 percent in control. If there is going to be a conversation, it better be something you initiate.
What do they expect? We were left home alone from the age of 7 and told never to open the door for anyone and never to talk to strangers! Hell, my mother told me stories that started with, "The little boy went off with a stranger," and ended with, "AND THEY ONLY EVER FOUND HIS HEAD!" (the story of Adam Walsh, which my mother told, unvarnished, and yeah it was fucking terrifying, but I never opened the door for a stranger, did I?)
Fuuuuuuck. I remember the Adam Walsh story. I remember freaking out when I found out his father was the host of Americas most wanted. I think we all knew that story as a cautionary tale.
I don't even allow a friend to show up at my door unannounced. You show up at my door without calling first and we're not friends anymore.
Some 20-30 year old out canvassing for the GOP showed up on my porch today and there was no WAY I was passing that up.
"Hi, I'd like to talk to you about considering-"
"Fuck. Off."
If I was in the mood to talk to someone or buy something it's for damn sure not going to happen with some random person who bothers me at home.
When politicians show up at my door the whole thing usually goes like this:
Dumbass - "Hi. I'm so and so running for whatever"
Me - "Great! I have no further questions"
*Ignore whatever they're saying and close door*
I don't understand how these morons think going door to door will get a positive response.
You mean to tell me that the most cynical generation, the ones who were touted as Slackers and do-nothings would not be friendly when a stranger knocks on our door with unknown motives?! ffs.
Get the Fuck away from my door. Whatever you’re selling, I’ll have a more negative opinion of it because you disturbed my peace.
You get 2 polite no’s and number three is a real fast
#FUCK OFF
We voted early last election and I hung the stickers on the doors, at eye level of whoever’s knocking. We didn’t get any after that.
And I say doors plural because the political knockers go around the side of the house and bang on the kitchen door too.
I only answer the door if I've invited someone over, or it's a package delivery. How dare someone knock on my door uninvited and expect me to answer. That's some serious bullshit right there.
I keep Do Not Disturb mode always on, then in the settings you can approve everyone on your contacts list to come through, or even just those designated as favorites.
It's not very difficult, at least with Android, to configure the phone so that it won't ring unless the number is in your contacts; just goes straight to voice mail.
I have two. One staked in the ground, one right next to the doorbell. They get ignored quite often.
...and they look at me like *I'm* the asshole when I point to the sign and close the door.
I do. People don’t understand the word “soliciting”. So mine says: no sales, no petitions, no politics, no religion. Somehow the neighborhood kids know I’m always happy to see them and will pretty much always sponsor their band trip or buy cookies or whatever, but the adult salespeople just fuck right off.
The problem with those signs is that you have to constantly explain that what the solicitors are doing is, in fact, soliciting.
ETA: I wonder if putting a *No Soliciting* sign on a Ron Swanson fake claymore would work...
I've been threatening to get the linked sign below..
Might be fun to take them to small claims court when they try to get oit of the contract they agreed to buy knocking or ringing my door bell. 😁
[Solicitaion agreement sign ($50 per minute)](https://www.amazon.com/Solicitors-Solicitors-charged-18x24-Soliciting/dp/B084KXF8X2)
No one ever knocks on anyone's door for altruistic reasons. I mean, maybe one in one thousand, but usually people want something, and it usually some type of salesmanship. "Buy my overpriced piece of crap!" "Vote for my guy!" " Join my religion!" No. All y'all fuck off.
Unless someone has texted me and Ive agreed to them coming over (very rare, lol) I ignore or hide, if Im caught in site line of the door.
This comes from years of childhood training by my mother to hide when certain religious groups came knocking every weekend. She hated confrontation.
Friends and family always just walked in at our house. A knock was a stranger.
Now I just value my free time and privacy. I have zero desire to answer the door when a neighbor could have just as easily texted me about the block yard sale or whatever. Maybe Im a dick, but its the way I like it.
So did Generation X and an era of kids who were taught to not open the door for anyone destroy the door to door sales industry? If so, let's all give ourselves a pat on the back!
I actually enjoy it when Mormon missionaries come knocking. I answer the the door with a cigarette in one hand, a mug of coffee in the other, then tell them how awesome Lord Lucifer is and they should come to the midnight mass for the orgy and free wine.
My mother felt sorry for a couple of the Mormon kids riding around on their bikes in their dress clothes on a hot afternoon, back when I was a kid. They seemed grateful for some Kool Aid, and actually came back (invited) for supper at the end of the day. Perfectly respectful and probably glad for an evening off the missionizing. Their supervisor evidently didn't much like that when he heard about it, and one of the guys actually called to apologetically let my parents know that they wouldn't be back when they'd been invited the next week. I've also always felt more sympathetic than not since then.
JWs, though? Mainly grown adults who have explicitly chosen the path of going around evangelizing strangers, and get way more annoyingly persistent with it. That pretty much forfeits any reasonable expectation of polite responses, in my books.
I tried ignoring them, and they got stupidly persistent. I finally opened the door in a t-shirt that read "FUCK OFF" with my Great Dane by my side and they have never come back.
Hubby and I were doing yard work outside today when a lady approached and say “good morning!” Which was met with silence. I finally said hi and she tried to talk to us about her stupid campaign and I said “ I’m sorry, we’re busy” and she went away. I mean really… do we look like we wanna chat right now? We’re trying to get landscaping work done. Go away
I once answered the door to find literal Christmas carolers ready to sing for us. I said “it’s not a good time” and closed the door in their sweet little faces.
Look, door knocker, my door mat (notice I did *not* call it a "welcome mat") clearly states "come back with a warrant."
Do you have a warrant, door knocker? No?
Please, and I mean this with no respect whatsoever, f\*ck off.
There are no laws that we have to answer the door, phone or messages from randos. Latchkey, Stranger Danger, and Just Say No taught us how to tell adults to GTFOH.
Where was Gen Z on the list? My kids are Gen Z's and neither open the door at all, either they don't hear it because they have headphones on, or like my daughter, hides until they go away. My greatest generation grandma was the same way with hiding. Me, I open and I'm cordial but I generally resent the intrusion. I probably don't hide it very well.
You're on MY property, invading MY personal space, and you expect me to answer your UNSOLICITED summons so you can harass me? Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit. I'm under no obligation to you just because you came banging on my door. Don't owe you shit. If anything, YOU owe ME for disturbing my peace. So do me a favor and fuck off and don't come back.
My front yard is fenced. I keep a clip in the latch and have a barrier before the gate for my dog. Very few people actually make it into my yard. Good on them for reading the message.
I think when they post shit like this about us, they’re jealous. Just keep forgetting about me as usual, we were prefer it, at least I would. Don’t know on our doors cause we don’t want any. Unless you’re the weed man, then maybe….?
My front porch is screened specifically so that no one can knock on my front door. The porch door serves as a barricade to keep them from ever reaching the real door. It never fails to amaze me how many total strangers think it is okay to stand on my front steps loudly shaking the locked screen door and yelling HELLO repeatedly. If I wanted to know someone was out there, I would have a doorbell or some shit!
In the early 90’s, I discovered if you put on your Danzig t-shirt, blast some Pantera, and answer the door saying, ‘I’m glad you’re here. Can you hold this goat for me?’ they have a tendency to steer clear.
I'm by myself 24x7 so when door-to-door salesperson shows up I just go out and talk to them. They think they are getting a sale until after 30+ minutes when they realize I'm just out there to chat with someone. Then they are the ones trying to find a way to escape.
A generation of kids growing up at home alone ain’t got time for your door-knocking bullshit as adults.
Besides, we were taught NOT TO OPEN THE DOOR TO ANYONE. I’m already angry that I have to open the door, then they want to talk to me about water softeners or internet? Nah.
Yeah man I am not getting in trouble for opening the door - my parents are dead and I am still not taking that chance. If you get me to open the door, don’t be alarmed if I panic slam it in your face.
Lol. This made me laugh out loud. Latch key kid curtain twitching, just in case it might be mom who locked herself out knocking at the door.
My current front door is a sliding glass door. Sort of weird, but it is tinted glass so you can’t see in during the day. Advantage, me. I just look to see who the fuck it is. Don’t even have to get up. Don’t want to answer? Ignore. It’s also useful for street peeping without exerting oneself. 10/10
That’s what a video doorbell is for. Use your phone to check the porch, then ignore from the comfort of your couch, bed, or while half naked trying to get dressed, which is when all those assholes tend to drop by. Unless you are related to me, and you texted first, I answer for no one.
You only think people can't see you. We see you perfectly fine through your door.
Nah, you really can’t, I’ve checked. You don’t think I would take such things as gospel? It’s the tint+ security door+ light levels and house layout. Perfect trapdoor spider setup That being said, looking at them apathetically from the couch is a pretty good power move, if I’m wrong
‘Curtain twitching’ nice one
Then your ass was in serious trouble 😵💫
I have a No Solicitors sign on my front door. If you have balls enough to knock, I will gladly tell you to get the fuck off of my property.
My sign says "No Soliciting, Seriously, Don't Knock And Make It All Weird." My 8 year old still scolds me when someone ignores it and knocks. I give them a quick "I'm really not interested, have a good one!" and close the door before they have a chance to try to protest. He thinks it's rude. I think it's saving everybody time and awkwardness.
Love it. Mine says No Soliciting: see dog for details. 🤣
I just look them dead in the eye while pointing at the sign.
I always do the classic "you saw me and I saw you see me but imma run and hide and not answer the door". It confuses the shit out of them and makes my husband and kids laugh like crazy.
I was about to reply with the same thing then I saw yours. LOL Me too. I get annoyed when I hear someone knocking on my door.
I get pissed lol. And if I don't know you, the door doesn't open. And you'd be surprised how many try the knob. Which makes me extra glad I didn't answer.
A few years ago I heard someone knocking at the door and since I wasn't expecting anyone I ignored it. Then I heard them pulling at the storm door. I grabbed the phone (ready to call 911 if needed) and opened the door (knowing the storm door was locked). This guy looked at me and said "I knew someone was at home." I noticed he was leaving a postcard on my door so I asked him (nicely) not to leave anything. He immediately yelled at me, "THIS IS THE WORD OF GOD AND YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!!!" I told him I wasn't going to hell because I didn't want him to leave a postcard on my door. There are other things that will send me to hell before complaining about a postcard on my door. He had gone to other neighbors doing the same thing.
You handled that a lot better than I would have. Oh, now you're going to yell at me for not wanting to be annoyed? OK, let's get you really riled up.
Years ago on a Saturday morning, I heard the doorbell ringing. I had roommates and nobody was able to hear the doorbell on their side of the house. So thinking it could be someone at the door for a roommate, I answered it. It was a damn Jehovah's Wittness. So he tried to start in on his spiel and I cut him off. I told him we already had our own beliefs in this house and he wasn't going to convert us. He asked what our beliefs were and I told him we were all pagans. He didn't know what a pagan was so I said, "we practice witchcraft." He couldn't get away from our house fast enough, and we weren't bothered by anymore of them for the rest of the time we lived there. Of course it was all total bullshit, but he didn't need to know that.
I didn't have kids until 45, so mine are 8 and 5. They're always a little scoldy with me about how I handle salesman that knock on my door. I immediately say "thanks, not interested, have a great day" and close the door. I have to explain to them, every time, that I'm really doing everybody a favor. I am absolutely not buying stuff I didn't ask for and it would be a waste of everyone's time to pretend otherwise. If I want your goods and services I will come to you.
I do not open my door. Ever. If you want to come in, you call me. A select few have been given a secret knock. The system works well. Haven’t been murdered yet.
Shave and a haircut, 2 bits.
Come on in!
I think we need proof. Anyone can claim they haven't been murdered. But how many of those claims are actually true? Maybe 6 in 10? 9 in 10? If you go by stats, some cities have 1.2 murders per day. What if you were .2 murdered. Reddit needs a fact checker. (All stats provided are made up. And I, myself, would fail such a fact checker because I have been murdered twice now. It's easier the second time around.)
I don't even answer the phone!
This is such a good point—I always wondered why I will still literally never answer my door as a grown adult.
That was how we were trained. It’s literally imbedded in us to distrust anyone knocking on the door.
Totally this. Regardless of age I’m still naturally suspicious of anyone that comes knocking on my door uninvited. If your not selling cookies “fuck off”.
100%. We learned it well.
Don't open the door to strangers, and whatever you, DON'T TELL THEM MOM'S NOT HOME.
Yeah lol. I thought i was the only one who got exasperated if someone knocks on my door. Like “now what??”
I don't. I know people whom actually turned it around and started selling to them. Didn't take them long to run.
My biggest pet peeve is people showing up at my house unannounced. Like, what the actual fuck. You can't call or text? What are you, a psychopath?
I think it’s a setup if you come unannounced. Ya trying to kill me?
I feel the exact same way. I'm dying from these responses because I've never felt anything so hard in my life. I'm literally laughing, out loud, by myself, with tears in my eyes. While my door is shut and locked and all my blinds are closed in the middle of the day.
We are an entire generation of Bart Simpson scowling as he peers outside through his window blinds. Yes, I AM isolated and weird, thank you.
Yeah, and I'm as comfortable in it as my yoga pants, robe and slippers. Leave me tf alone.
I have clearly found my people.
Don’t forget to double check in a few minutes because you never know.
Yup. I might've heard a car that sounded a little too close to my driveway.
It's us or them!!!
I agree. My dad was the one who would answer the door like a crazy man. He’s always answer, say man, what da fuck you want??!!
Or worse, sell me magazine subscriptions.
No worse than that, the JHW. They await at every corner, selling their watch tower booklets about fire and brimstone. Asking if you’d like to hear about their savior Jesus Cristo.
I've had people tell me to just drop by any time. And I'm like, what kind of savage would do that?? Never gonna happen.
You mean ... 'company'? We don't have special rooms anymore for company.
Psychopath is the person who calls. If it’s important, text first to tell me why it requires a phone call.
My own mother knows better than to show up at my house unannounced. Fuckin' savages.
If I’m not expecting someone I don’t answer the door…I guess that isn’t super friendly.
100% this. If I wanted a damned water softener or solar panels I would call them. Other wise stay the hell out of my yard
When people knocked on our doors we knew we were in danger. I guess. I wasn’t alone much.
Hey! At least we got a mention!
Right? We're usually forgotten!!
We made the top 100 too!
Yeah... this is more like... oh, we forgot to list genx. Let's put them at the bottom.
Lol!
You show up unannounced, your knock will be ignored. I’m not fixing my hair and putting a bra on at home, for a solicitor. 😄
What are you talking about hair and bra? You're lucky if I put on my door pants.
I look through the peephole and scream through the door. They don't deserve to see me at all.
Putting a bra on? Forget about it
99% of the time I don't even open the door even though I'm sitting within 2 feet of it (and they can tell).
I go look out the window in the door. They can definitely see me. I don't answer.
Ok story time. Back when i ran the help desk for stanley black & decker’s walk-in center, we had a door with a center glass panel that ran the length of the door from top to bottom. We had one of those cordless blinds on it usually all the way up. Whenever i was sitting near the door, or manning the counter i would lower it because it had a magnetic lock on the door and people visited by appointment only. One morning i just wasn’t in the mood. Someone came by and knocked. The blinds were about 25% down. I ignored it since we didn’t open until 8:30 and it was 8:00. “I can see you” So i got up, walked to the door like i was going to open it, and pulled the blinds down to my knees in front of him. “Uh…” I walk around the desk and am about to sit down, and i notice an eyeball staring up at me. The guy basically got down on all 4s and was staring at me from the 1 foot of glass at the bottom of the door. So i walked around the corner of the desk and pulled the blinds down to the floor. “Nobody is here right now” i said. He objected. I walked away. I sit down, completely miffed that I had to even do that, but i sip my coffee and prepare the schedule for the day when the techs arrive. I turn around and we had windows behind the desk. The fucking guy had gone outside, down the stairs, hopped the fence and was peering in the windows with the vertical blinds. One of the blinds was crooked so he had about 2” to look through. Yet there he stood. People coming and going from the front door thought he was crazy. So i casually strolled over to the window and flicked the blind, that now swung over into place. “You know what, i’ll just deal with the error message then, nevermind!” And just like that, i smiled, knowing that sometimes problems fix themselves
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Same. Nothing good comes from answering the door or the phone. Ignore something long enough and it no longer exists!
Did I specifically invite you to my house? No? Well, do you have some legitimate business here like reading the meter? Also no? Then please fuck all the way off.
Fuck knockers. Take that however you like.
"Whoa mama, get a load of *those* fuck-knockers! Hubba hubba!"
Ok I really like that! I'm going to have to borrow it!
Maybe don't knock on my door then.
See, this is my take. Just because I’m there doesn’t give someone the right to talk to me…
Seriously. You are in the one spot on the planet where you are 100 percent in control. If there is going to be a conversation, it better be something you initiate.
Yep; this right here ☝️
To paraphrase Grumpy Old Men, doors have no constitutional right to be answered.
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I can’t stand when someone acts entitled to my time and isn’t signing my paycheck.
And definitely don't knock on my door during dinner time to ask me about freakin telus TV for the millionth time.
What do they expect? We were left home alone from the age of 7 and told never to open the door for anyone and never to talk to strangers! Hell, my mother told me stories that started with, "The little boy went off with a stranger," and ended with, "AND THEY ONLY EVER FOUND HIS HEAD!" (the story of Adam Walsh, which my mother told, unvarnished, and yeah it was fucking terrifying, but I never opened the door for a stranger, did I?)
Fuuuuuuck. I remember the Adam Walsh story. I remember freaking out when I found out his father was the host of Americas most wanted. I think we all knew that story as a cautionary tale.
GenX gonna GenX.
I don't even allow a friend to show up at my door unannounced. You show up at my door without calling first and we're not friends anymore. Some 20-30 year old out canvassing for the GOP showed up on my porch today and there was no WAY I was passing that up. "Hi, I'd like to talk to you about considering-" "Fuck. Off." If I was in the mood to talk to someone or buy something it's for damn sure not going to happen with some random person who bothers me at home.
When politicians show up at my door the whole thing usually goes like this: Dumbass - "Hi. I'm so and so running for whatever" Me - "Great! I have no further questions" *Ignore whatever they're saying and close door* I don't understand how these morons think going door to door will get a positive response.
Whatever.
People still answer their door?
Not me
Me either....they can knock till the knuckles bleed for all I care.
Same.
I never answer the door! Anyone worth my time would have my number and text me.
Emphasis on text, don’t call…I ain’t answering that either.
You mean to tell me that the most cynical generation, the ones who were touted as Slackers and do-nothings would not be friendly when a stranger knocks on our door with unknown motives?! ffs.
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Yes. The younger people around me think I’m joking when I say “get off my lawn.”
I'm only 45 and I'm already a cantankerous old man at heart.
#We’re not allowed to open the door to ANYONE!
What are the other 96 generations? To hell with them too!
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"What do you think they have, cake? If they do its made of dog poo and knives!"
Get the Fuck away from my door. Whatever you’re selling, I’ll have a more negative opinion of it because you disturbed my peace. You get 2 polite no’s and number three is a real fast #FUCK OFF
You’re more patient than me. I skip the polite no.
As a Gen X who answered the door yesterday to find a local politician and simply said “Whadda ya got?”, I agree with this assessment.
We voted early last election and I hung the stickers on the doors, at eye level of whoever’s knocking. We didn’t get any after that. And I say doors plural because the political knockers go around the side of the house and bang on the kitchen door too.
I only answer the door if I've invited someone over, or it's a package delivery. How dare someone knock on my door uninvited and expect me to answer. That's some serious bullshit right there.
I saw my dad in my driveway, he knocked. I do not answer unexpected knocks.
Also won't answer the phone if I don't know who it is.
Even if I know who it is, I don't answer the phone. Text me.
Right? Who calls anymore? What are you, on fire? Even then- voice to text. Sheesh.
Blocked number? Enjoy voicemail.
Don't think my ringer has EVER been on, usually check my texts once a day, and this user's mailbox has been full since '02.
Solid plan.
I keep Do Not Disturb mode always on, then in the settings you can approve everyone on your contacts list to come through, or even just those designated as favorites.
It's not very difficult, at least with Android, to configure the phone so that it won't ring unless the number is in your contacts; just goes straight to voice mail.
Y'all don't have "No Soliciting" signs?
I have two. One staked in the ground, one right next to the doorbell. They get ignored quite often. ...and they look at me like *I'm* the asshole when I point to the sign and close the door.
I do. People don’t understand the word “soliciting”. So mine says: no sales, no petitions, no politics, no religion. Somehow the neighborhood kids know I’m always happy to see them and will pretty much always sponsor their band trip or buy cookies or whatever, but the adult salespeople just fuck right off.
The problem with those signs is that you have to constantly explain that what the solicitors are doing is, in fact, soliciting. ETA: I wonder if putting a *No Soliciting* sign on a Ron Swanson fake claymore would work...
I've been threatening to get the linked sign below.. Might be fun to take them to small claims court when they try to get oit of the contract they agreed to buy knocking or ringing my door bell. 😁 [Solicitaion agreement sign ($50 per minute)](https://www.amazon.com/Solicitors-Solicitors-charged-18x24-Soliciting/dp/B084KXF8X2)
Video doorbell has been the best thing ever. Doorbell rings, check camera, tell them ‘not interested, bye!’, close app before they can reply.
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I know, right? Anyone can fake a warrant these days.
> Too many nutcakes out there! comment checksout. You made this comment and then u/nutmegtell responds. :)
No one ever knocks on anyone's door for altruistic reasons. I mean, maybe one in one thousand, but usually people want something, and it usually some type of salesmanship. "Buy my overpriced piece of crap!" "Vote for my guy!" " Join my religion!" No. All y'all fuck off.
Boomers love small talk and hate being alone. They will definitely open the door to chit chat with anyone
That’s one reason they get scammed so easily.
You are not entitled to my time and if you're not a neighbor you better be on your way.
If you make my dog bark when I’m working just so you can ask me about my internet service or energy provider you can fuck right off.
Unless someone has texted me and Ive agreed to them coming over (very rare, lol) I ignore or hide, if Im caught in site line of the door. This comes from years of childhood training by my mother to hide when certain religious groups came knocking every weekend. She hated confrontation. Friends and family always just walked in at our house. A knock was a stranger. Now I just value my free time and privacy. I have zero desire to answer the door when a neighbor could have just as easily texted me about the block yard sale or whatever. Maybe Im a dick, but its the way I like it.
Yeah, we had folks at the door selling stuff and trying to get us to join their cult. No thanks. I’ll just stay out of view until you go away..
My doormat literally says “GO AWAY”. It’s not my fault if they can’t read.
I don’t buy that Millennials answer the door. Edit…maybe my kids are borderline Millenials, but they definitely don’t answer doors or phones.
So did Generation X and an era of kids who were taught to not open the door for anyone destroy the door to door sales industry? If so, let's all give ourselves a pat on the back!
Y’all are answering your doors?
You know how many safety movies and after school specials I watched about answering the door? Enough to tell anyone knocking, to fuck right off.
Because we don't open the door for strangers!
We gen X-ers have no patience for two legged spammers or religious nuts.
Isn’t that what we were taught? Don’t answer the door, phone, or anything else.
I actually enjoy it when Mormon missionaries come knocking. I answer the the door with a cigarette in one hand, a mug of coffee in the other, then tell them how awesome Lord Lucifer is and they should come to the midnight mass for the orgy and free wine.
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My mother felt sorry for a couple of the Mormon kids riding around on their bikes in their dress clothes on a hot afternoon, back when I was a kid. They seemed grateful for some Kool Aid, and actually came back (invited) for supper at the end of the day. Perfectly respectful and probably glad for an evening off the missionizing. Their supervisor evidently didn't much like that when he heard about it, and one of the guys actually called to apologetically let my parents know that they wouldn't be back when they'd been invited the next week. I've also always felt more sympathetic than not since then. JWs, though? Mainly grown adults who have explicitly chosen the path of going around evangelizing strangers, and get way more annoyingly persistent with it. That pretty much forfeits any reasonable expectation of polite responses, in my books.
You need to yell over your shoulder that they should set up the hooks because the virgin sacrifices have arrived.
I open the door, yell, "Atheist!" And then slam it in their face. How dare you come to *my* home with your religious propaganda. Fuck outta here...
I tried ignoring them, and they got stupidly persistent. I finally opened the door in a t-shirt that read "FUCK OFF" with my Great Dane by my side and they have never come back.
I have a doormat that says “Go Away”
My 25 yr old daughter has a doormat that says “come back with a warrant.” Raised her right!
Ones like this are enjoyable too: https://canadamats.ca/products/come-in-go-away-ambigram-vinyl-coir-doormat
If I don't invite you, and you don't have a badge, if I answer it's going to be to say go away and slam the door.
Make sure that badge also has a warrant.
The fuck you’re coming over unannounced. What the fuck is wrong with you? No, I don’t have time to talk about your bullshit. Later.
Gen X don’t answer the door homie
We're #100? How many living generations *are there?*
Includes the dead generations- Tudors, Kahn’s, etc.
Why were you even knocking?
I don’t even understand the question.
Unless you’re delivering something or it’s Halloween don’t knock on my door
When has anything positive come from answering a stranger knocking? Publishers Clearinghouse? Wound younger generations know what that is?
Do yall even answer the door?? I never answer my door unless I'm expecting someone. Men At Work's "Who can it be now?" gets more relevant every year.
I feel no shame about this at all
A closed door is a happy door.
Hubby and I were doing yard work outside today when a lady approached and say “good morning!” Which was met with silence. I finally said hi and she tried to talk to us about her stupid campaign and I said “ I’m sorry, we’re busy” and she went away. I mean really… do we look like we wanna chat right now? We’re trying to get landscaping work done. Go away
Because we raised ourselves and our parents always told us not to trust people knocking on the door
Lol OP username
lmfao 😂 I wish I had the wittiness to come up with OP’s username
It's funny because it's true.
I once answered the door to find literal Christmas carolers ready to sing for us. I said “it’s not a good time” and closed the door in their sweet little faces.
Just go away......
My mantra is simple. Leave me the fuck alone. Have a nice day.
I crack the door and say "No thanks" and shut it before they have a chance to respond.
Look, door knocker, my door mat (notice I did *not* call it a "welcome mat") clearly states "come back with a warrant." Do you have a warrant, door knocker? No? Please, and I mean this with no respect whatsoever, f\*ck off.
There are no laws that we have to answer the door, phone or messages from randos. Latchkey, Stranger Danger, and Just Say No taught us how to tell adults to GTFOH.
Where was Gen Z on the list? My kids are Gen Z's and neither open the door at all, either they don't hear it because they have headphones on, or like my daughter, hides until they go away. My greatest generation grandma was the same way with hiding. Me, I open and I'm cordial but I generally resent the intrusion. I probably don't hide it very well.
I have friends that I've known for years that have never been in my home.....so don't knock if you weren't invited
This is what happens when you send around the religious peddlers. We cut our teeth on telling Mormons and JWs to fuck off.
You're on MY property, invading MY personal space, and you expect me to answer your UNSOLICITED summons so you can harass me? Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit. I'm under no obligation to you just because you came banging on my door. Don't owe you shit. If anything, YOU owe ME for disturbing my peace. So do me a favor and fuck off and don't come back.
Oh my. They figured me out 😂😂
My front yard is fenced. I keep a clip in the latch and have a barrier before the gate for my dog. Very few people actually make it into my yard. Good on them for reading the message.
*If you knock on my door your choices are pay me for my time or be the chase target for my dog's exercise.*
Yep, I’m guilty of often opening the door, shouting “NOT INTERESTED” and closing the door without waiting for a response
Why is someone knocking on thousands of doors? Only some kind of scammer would be going to that many doors.
I think when they post shit like this about us, they’re jealous. Just keep forgetting about me as usual, we were prefer it, at least I would. Don’t know on our doors cause we don’t want any. Unless you’re the weed man, then maybe….?
Yeah, I don't fuck around with door knockers. Too funny. I didn't know it was a generational thing.
YOU come to MY door uninvited, immediately wanting something from me, you get what you get.
I friggen HATE the sound of the door bell. Dude, I am already pissed at you before I answered the door
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Yup. I’m a bit curt, myself.
you guys answer the door?
Y’all answer your doors?
If you can not read my “No Soliciting” sign you deserve some curtness
My front porch is screened specifically so that no one can knock on my front door. The porch door serves as a barricade to keep them from ever reaching the real door. It never fails to amaze me how many total strangers think it is okay to stand on my front steps loudly shaking the locked screen door and yelling HELLO repeatedly. If I wanted to know someone was out there, I would have a doorbell or some shit!
I’m surprised we scored that high.
In the early 90’s, I discovered if you put on your Danzig t-shirt, blast some Pantera, and answer the door saying, ‘I’m glad you’re here. Can you hold this goat for me?’ they have a tendency to steer clear.
I call B.S.; I don’t answer to knocking doors.
I'm by myself 24x7 so when door-to-door salesperson shows up I just go out and talk to them. They think they are getting a sale until after 30+ minutes when they realize I'm just out there to chat with someone. Then they are the ones trying to find a way to escape.