Has anyone ever 'hidden' from an unwanted visitor?

[N0tNowBernard]

Like actually, blinds closed, cowering upstairs in the nursery?... Just wondering Said visitor has already been round a few times this week and I need some time to do jobs as well as working myself. Visits always spill over into teatime too so left with the awkwardness of do I offer tea or not.
No judgements on the how's and whys, all you need to know is that it's necessary!
Please tell me someone else has done this too!

Ok, now the shame is leaving me and I feel a strange adrenaline rush from it.

She leaves like you've offended her?
That's her problem surely? You haven't caused offence by not wanting having time for a visitor. You're not a visitor attraction.

Who is she btw? It's your mil isn't it?

Yes. My flatmate had big open floor to ceiling windows at the front of our flat and someone we knew and who was a bit weird cycled past looking in. We all hid behind the bed. By the time he'd parked his bike up there was no-one to be seen

Every time FIL comes to ours he knocks on the door of a bloke who lives near us that he used to work with. The guy's wife always answer, and said ex colleague is always, without fail, asleep

Haha I've done that! Nosey neighbour I'm not friends with called in once and I told her she'd just caught me and we were off to town for an appt, I went as fas as putting my then 10 week old into his car seat, she followed me around the house for a nose. Once she knocked on the window of my car while I was just about to drive out the gate and kept me talking about nothing for 15 minutes l. Now I keep my curtains closed til in ready to answer the door and I close them nice and early too.

I have. I threw myself to the floor when I saw them coming up the drive. They walked around to the front door, looked through the window (in the door) and saw me lying there

Also these people never want to come when your house looks tidy, it's always when it's like a bomb site and you have no makeup on and a topknot. I've been making chocolate shredded wheat nest cakes with DS and the kitchen looked such a mess!! Plus her DD that she brings hates our dog, so I have to put him away upstairs.

I usually find a job in the shed / at the bottom of the garden that needs tackling when such situations arise.

Thedogsmother Nooooo!! They saw you? What did you say?

Yes

I'm really weird about meeting new people and DPs friends drop round his house unannounced all the time.

I always have a spontaneous shower til they've gone

First time my son watched a programme on the iPad it was to keep him quiet

They were a window peeper too so we hid behind a unit. I'm not proud but it happened.

I just wave and keep going, or occasionally, if it's someone I like, I'll open the window and say 'I'm working.'

I love this . But I think I'd be worried that if I waved from the window and didn't answer the door, they might think I was waving for help and break down the door.

Also with his same visitor, a feels years ago I had an afternoon off work as I had a midwife appointment (so she wouldn't have expected me to be home as it was a normal working day and about 2:30) I was packing my notes in my bag and looked out of the window and saw her doing a 'drive by'!! She was kerb crawling and craning her neck to see in at my window!

Nonibaloni Haha!! Amazing!

Oh yes. Definitely have. I've tried to be nice but it just doesn't work and people take advantage and/or have the hide of a rhino and the means do justify the end result.

That's not a visitor Bernard. What you have there is a stalker!

Hell yes.

From a really boring 'friend'

And some of DH's relatives who used to call in on their way home from work just when I wanted to go out to do the horse.

Yep done this before, usually it's a doorstep salesman or similar but I'd have no qualms about doing this to someone I knew too if they had a tendency to 'pop' round unannounced and then 'linger' for 15minutes after saying themselves that they should make a move.

And yes to them always coming round when the house is a tip, in-laws do this ALL THE TIME.

I don't ever answer my door - anyone who rings the doorbell doesn't know me very well so they can piss off!

Upperlimit ha! Feels a bit like it. Said person is off work for 2 weeks. I can't live like this for another week!!

Mil does the whole going to the back of the house to look through windows.

I used to do this if my SIL turned up unexpectedly (which was always). She always had her 3 very badly behaved sons with her and would let them run riot through my house while she just sat there expecting me to be delighted to see her,regardless of what I might have been doing or how busy I was. After this had happened a few times,I'd had enough. It would take me an hour to put everything back to rights after they'd left,not to mention discovering they had,without fail,always broken one of my DD's toys,and on another occasion spilt blackcurrant squash on the bedroom carpet. On another occasion I found the bathroom sink blocked up with toilet paper. The problem was she had no shame whatsoever,and when my then husband (her brother) mentioned these things to her she'd just laugh and say 'Oh well that's boys for you'. So from then on I decided that I was not going to answer the door to her. It was relatively easy to do this as I live in a second floor flat,so she couldn't see in any of the windows,and the kids made so much noise coming up the stairs,I would get a minute's warning before the dreaded hammering on the door. I just had to make sure I stayed out of the hallway as she would start trying to look through the letterbox (I soon got wise to that and hung a small curtain on the inside of the door,to cover the letterbox). I remember one occasion when I wouldn't answer the door,I heard a crash from outside the door. After waiting until the coast was clear,I looked out and found one of my empty milk bottles shattered all over the door mat (this was back in the mid 80's when I still had deliveries from the milkman). Of course,I had to leave the mess for a couple of hours as she had a nasty habit of coming back a short while later and would have noticed it had been cleared up! Good grief was I relieved when my exH and I split up and she didn't bother with me any more.

But I think I'd be worried that if I waved from the window and didn't answer the door, they might think I was waving for help and break down the door.

Well, it's never happened, possibly because, along with my 'terribly busy' wave, I have an Abstracted Frown (currently marking essays online, which produces a mighty headache...)

Oh, and the reason I am very firm about this is that I grew up in a house elderly men (and occasionally women) used to show up in all the time for endless visits, in part because it was my great-uncles' and my grandfather's house when they were alive, and these people kept coming long after they'd died. No notice, no knocking, they just walked around and came in the back door at dinner time and stayed till midnight this was in a tiny, overcrowded cottage with a minimum of four adults and four children, where all bedrooms led out of the living room and kitchen, and to get to the sole bathroom, you had to walk through both living room and kitchen you can imagine having to run the gauntlet of a bunch of elderly men commenting on you in your nightdress when you were dealing with your first periods. My parents were too spineless to stop it. It's made me very protective of my privacy.