the doorbell rings - what is the most unusual thing you opened the door to?

[purplesequins]

the last couple of weeks we had a few people trying to pick up the key for an air b&b
clearly something was wrong in the instructions.

@WatchMyChops the Police werelocated at my parents’ home from where they surveilled activity at another property.

@DGRossetti

A few years ago, it was a PCSO who asked if we'd heard anything suspicious the previous night as a neighbours chickens had all been stolen.

After digesting the fact that we had neighbours (actually across the road and down a few doors) keeping chickens and we'd never known, I suggested it may have been a fox.

"Oh" said the PCSO "Do you think foxes eat chickens ?"

I almost - almost - said something. But it seemed a lot easier to agree that it must have been a well organised gang and take their card in case I remembered anything.

You e reminded me of the time I rang the police non-emergency number on my way to work as there were about twenty bullocks loose on a winding rural road that became a high speed rat-run into the city in rush hour. There was a pause at the other end. ‘What’s a bullock?’ After I’d explained, I asked her what she’d thought I was talking about, snd she said ‘I thought it was a gang term!’

@NeverDropYourMoonCup

A half naked women showing me her back, braless and wearing what looked like a fluorescent yellow floss like thong.

It was our next door neighbour in a lovely, but extremely close fitting orange dress that she couldn't quite do up and had got stuck in halfway when getting ready for a wedding.

I laughed and zipped it up whilst DP thanked his lucky stars that I'd been at home and the one nearest the door at the time.

Reminds me of my neighbour in his spiderman costume. He'd been to a kids party and when he got home couldn't unzip his costume. He couldn't wait for his wife to get home because he was desperate for the loo. My husband wasn't home so I did unzip him but he didn't tell me he wasn't wearing anything under the costume. It was obvious when I unzipped him but what do you say then!

We have a dog locally that adores our dog. He lives with an owner with limited mobility and is a bit of a sod for escaping. So if he does, he comes to our house, opens the porch door then bangs his head on the internal door to be let in! It’s so funny.

The woman who asked if I had any "spare gold" I could give her.

An ambulance crew after a mother of two in her late 30s/early 40s took a dislike to me and decided to phone the police claiming I was threatening suicide.

I wasn't. Safe to say they weren't impressed with her antics.

That was the start of a now year long harassment campaign from her and her family. You'd think she'd be a grown up and live her life instead of being so preoccupied with mine, but no.

I've just remembered as a child (over 50 years ago) living very rurally, we used to get a lot of what were called Gentlemen of the Road coming to our door. They were essentially itinerant men who picked up casual agricultural work where they could They would ask for food, and My mother and father would pack up a big bag of supplies for them and put some money in as well.

I always found them very exciting and they would often give me a present - of some conkers, acorns or some flowers they'd picked.

My neighbour's friend, who had overdosed. Followed an hour later by the police, as he'd run away from the paramedics I'd called. That wasn't a fun evening.

Riot police in the full gear - batons, sheilds the lot...at the wrong address 🤣

@Scutterbug

We have a dog locally that adores our dog. He lives with an owner with limited mobility and is a bit of a sod for escaping. So if he does, he comes to our house, opens the porch door then bangs his head on the internal door to be let in! It’s so funny.

How lovely! Coming around for a play date. He must enjoy the change of scenery and the company

My dh had the police at his old house early doors and knocked it in. They were doing a drugs bust at the wrong house. It was the next road along. The house was on X gardens, they needed to be at X road which is the main road they’d have driven down 🤦🏼‍♀️
Luckily, dhs friend had her badge with her. Cue embarrassed faces 🤡

[quote WatchMyChops]@Justyouwaitandseeagain I thought the man was pretending to be your DH’s father

@PaperMonster They paid for your parents’ internet to then surveil them? Was it some kind of pilot study?

I had a Jehova’s Witness come to my door, I politely said that I wasn’t interested and closed the door, only for them to continue speaking through the letter box. I then had to have a conversation, via the letter box, to request to be removed from their mailing system 😅[/quote]
I ignored the door to some jehovas witnesses a few years back. Next thing I knew their faces were pressed against my living room window looking to see if we were in 😳 I went a teensy bit nuclear.