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How many clothes to open the door??

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Goodbookandbed · 23/08/2024 20:37

This morning a delivery man came to the front door whilst I was getting dressed. DH was on the loo so couldn’t get it. So I did. I was fully dressed on the top half, but only knickers on the bottom half. I sort of peered round the door so he couldn’t see much.

DH jokingly said that I shouldn’t have gone to the door ‘semi naked’ and now I wonder whether he’s right. For some reason I think it’d be better this way round than half dressed on the top half, if you know what I mean?

So what’s the minimum amount of clothing necessary to answer the door? Clearly I’d not wear just underwear. But a towel?? No… Maybe I need to have a standby poncho by the front door.

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Everyoneisdifferent · 23/08/2024 21:07

Blimey I wouldn't have opened the door in my knickers, even if the top half was fully clothed!
I have answered the door in my dressing gown but don't even like doing that.

ZeldaFighter · 23/08/2024 20:56

I once said to my postman that he'd never seen me in my clothes before...and he blushed! I meant that I always answered the door in my dressing gown! He was an older chap!

7wwkw · 23/08/2024 20:54

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She peered round the door - don't think she was visible below the waist.

So I'd say ok.

JumpstartMondays · 23/08/2024 20:54

I'd shout from behind the door "THANKS, LEAVE IT ON THE MAT!"

BeLilacFinch · 23/08/2024 20:52

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saltinesandcoffeecups · 23/08/2024 20:52

Well considering some people order delivery just to answer their door naked I’m thinking this was pretty tame.

Might I suggest a dressing gown for the future? Honestly when I was younger I never bothered with them (except in University walking to the shared bathroom) but rediscovered them when we got a puppy a long time ago. Made those midnight runs a lot easier. And yes by runs I mean ‘runs’ outside to take care of the other runs.

Dilbertian · 23/08/2024 20:52

Don't you have a dressing gown hanging on the back of a door, ready to grab?

hilariousnamehere · 23/08/2024 20:49

Ha, I regularly answer the door to my lovely posties wearing a towel because they have an uncanny knack of ringing the doorbell as I am getting into or out of the shower!

Sooka · 23/08/2024 20:49

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IceStationZebra · 23/08/2024 20:47

I’d always be fully dressed to open the door - shorts and vest top would be the absolute minimum. I’d feel uncomfortable in pyjamas!

FoxtrotOscarKindaDay · 23/08/2024 20:46

I'm sure delivery people have seen people in bikinis before. Outside not even in the privacy of their own homes!

Doubt they cared or really noticed.

Have answered in a towel before because "it needs signed" and shouting out the window to leave it on the doorstep didn't work on that particular delivery driver.

Singleandproud · 23/08/2024 20:45

I would have just called through the door that you were getting dressed and could they put it on the doorstep

grumpygrape · 23/08/2024 20:44

Doggymummar · 23/08/2024 20:40

I just get them to drop and go

Good grief, asking delivery people to drop their clothes is pushing it a bit far....

(For those who don't get it, that's a joke)

Wendysfriend · 23/08/2024 20:44

Well this reminds me of the time I was living alone in an apartment block and the apartment across from me was been broken into, I rang the gardai and was heading back to bed as I had come home from work ill, I sleep naked and next thing there was huge pounding on my door, I jumped up thinking the burglars were trying to get in grabbed the nearest thing to cover me which was the mat in the tiny hallway 😳😳 and opened the door, and standing there was 3 gardai and a woman neighbour. I played it cool acted like this was a perfectly normal thing to do. I still cringe thinking about it.

namenamification · 23/08/2024 20:42

Doggymummar · 23/08/2024 20:40

I just get them to drop and go

The pants?

namenamification · 23/08/2024 20:42

No particular sense to it but my feeling is that if it was a long baggy T-shirt that covers your pant you were fine (as could just as easily have been shorts underneath), but a short fitted T-shirt with just pants is underdressed and you would have needed to add shorts as a minimum.

Doggymummar · 23/08/2024 20:40

I just get them to drop and go

TickingAlongNicely · 23/08/2024 20:39

Shorts and tshirt fir me.

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