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to not believe women dont answer the door when alone in house?

158 replies

PharoahNuff · 06/06/2011 12:17

truthfully?

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PharoahNuff · 06/06/2011 12:40

im on FIRST name terms with couriers hides wallet

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shirleyshortcut · 06/06/2011 12:40

i remember OH being away on a 4 month residential course, i have just had a baby and had a toddler also

there was a car parked outside the house for three nights on the trot with men just sitting in it. by night 3 i got a bit edgy so when OH phoned i mentioned it. Turned out they were police doing obs on a house down the road so probably i was safer than normal :) lol

PerryCombover · 06/06/2011 12:40

the tiger that came to tea was quite posh

well his voice was here

DaisyDaresYOU · 06/06/2011 12:41

I don't answer the door or my phone unless I know who it is.I do have anxiety problems though Blush

PharoahNuff · 06/06/2011 12:41

mine was like a gruff londoner

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noddyholder · 06/06/2011 12:41

I know our postman often says what you got today? particularly embarrassing at xmas.

PerryCombover · 06/06/2011 12:42

lolling at gruff londoner

maypole1 · 06/06/2011 12:42

My oh works shifts and I don't answer the door at night past 9 unless i am expecting someone.

MmeLindor. · 06/06/2011 12:43

I always answer the door. Almost always.

Sometimes I don't even answer the phone

But not when DH is home cause he is so polite and could not ignore phone or doorbell.

Not because I am scared.

PharoahNuff · 06/06/2011 12:43

do you say " oh today its a 10 foot vibrator"?

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Bluemoonrising · 06/06/2011 12:43

Wow, I wonder what these non-door answerers would do if they lived alone!

I answer the door if I'm home alone - there's no other fucker there to do it for me!

nobbysnippers · 06/06/2011 12:43

I dont answer as, in theory, Im at work

PharoahNuff · 06/06/2011 12:44

you lot expecting osmoene
do you have them ring up and say "i will be at your door in TEN< NINE EIGHT" adn so on till a hooter sounds?

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CotesduRhone · 06/06/2011 12:44

"I know our postman often says what you got today? particularly embarrassing at xmas."

Oh, just a new zombie outfit. Last one was getting a bit tatty. And it smelled, what with all the braaaaaaaaaains.

LadyBeagleEyes · 06/06/2011 12:44

Well, as a single parent for the last 6 years, I have to answer the door.
I think if you don't because your DH isn't there is a bit pathetic, but if you can't be arsed or are feeling unsociable then that's different.
I don't always answer my phone as I find it intrusive, and that's what an answer machine or 1471 is for.

GetOrf · 06/06/2011 12:44
noddyholder · 06/06/2011 12:45

No would never buy one online imagine if it started buzzing

MmeLindor. · 06/06/2011 12:46

Oh, and our postie said once, "Bonjour Mme. J'ai un velo pour vous" and told me to come and pick it up at the village post office to save him attaching the trailer to his Vespa.

No secrets in our village. He knows what is being delivered before I do.

"Ah, Mme. Un aspirateur!"

GetOrf · 06/06/2011 12:47

I am never in anwyay in the week, all my online deliveries go to my MILs.

No reason to open the door the rest of the time.

It might be THEM

PerryCombover · 06/06/2011 12:47

Perhaps if women had better security systems
a retractable bridge over a shark/crocodile tank leading up to the front door perhaps?

MmeLindor. · 06/06/2011 12:47
motherinferior · 06/06/2011 12:47

Why on earth don't you answer the phone, though? Door I can sort of theoretically understand (although I don't share this concern - I put it on the chain but I do open it, dammit) but how on earth is the phone scary?

pooka · 06/06/2011 12:47

Well no one else is around to open the door if I'm here alone.

If I peep and see a jehovah's witness/chugger/guy with teacloths then I might hide, but only if I think I haven't been spotted.

Otherwise, I open the door.

In fact - thinking about security - we were burgled last year. The burglar was seen knocking on our front door (by my neighbour, I was on school run, she ran inside and hid because she thought he was selling something GrinShock). Obviously no one answered the door. So he took the opportunity to go round the side, break in through the back door, ransack the house and nick anything portable (while looking for my husband's car keys).

If I'd been in, I'd have answered the door and am certain he would have pissed off. So now, I actually worry more about not answering the door, particularly if am feeding ds2, because then ponder the chances of someone scooting round the back.

PharoahNuff · 06/06/2011 12:48

hits floor roaring at perry

i want to knwo how the doorbell early warning phone system works

HOW DOES IT WORK

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PharoahNuff · 06/06/2011 12:49

i think it this was pharoahnuff.com I'd MAKE you all answer the phone and do squat thrusts as you talked
to this music

might work off some slack, sulley

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