to ask if you announce you presence upon door-opening?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

My DM thinks it's obligatory to shout Yoohoo It's mommy when she walks into my house.

I fecking know you are - I heard you craunch the handbrake on and spent 3.2 mins knocking the paint (F&B colour match for those who are interested) of my door with a set off keys the size of a medium pineapple.

[grr]

Do you know, mom, I'll work it out that you're here when I see the ChaoticOnes flocking to hug you?

So, are you an announcer or a SBD entryist?

"Hello, your not my wife"

he didn't add

"...but never mind?"

May I suggest a heavy duty bolt for your door? We keep MIL out with one of those.

I'm not an announcer because surely unless it's your own home, it is good manners to knock and wait for someone to let you in?

Anyone who had a key to my house and let themselves in at any time other than in an emergency would be getting the key swiftly taken off them.

My dad always shouts "Aloha!" in a really camp voice. I can see my mum clench everytime

DH tries to sneak in and get to his study with all his crap paperwork but the DDs sniff him out like bloodhounds and pounce on him everytime.

TeaAndToast68

Tbf, even if he had offered they couldn't have managed as said friend was rendered quite insensible with giggles

I carry around a little keyboard and play a theme tune I made up for myself when I come in the door.

Doesn't everyone do this though littlefriend ?

Mine's 'Eye of the Tiger' What's yours ?

If I know DH is coming in (know the sound of his car pulling up), I hide & jump out on him, so his annoucement is normally 'Jesusfuckingchristwoman!'.

My mother shouts "hellooooo are you there?" whilst proceeding to enter our front door.

The next thing she says is... "I need to go to the toilet I have taken my water tablets today"...the shouts from the downstairs loo that she is in there an no one must come in. Lock the fucking toilet door then mother. There was an unfortunate in incident of her being sat on the toilet with knickers and tights around her ankles, DH had been out gardening, come in and didn't know she was in there

The third thing she says is.... "gawd, I need to get this bra off, it's digging in, you don't mind do you if I take it off and change my dress do you?"

Why would I mind now mother....you have said the same things for the last 13 years of us living in this house.

What's with the 'aloha' thing though ? Are there MNers in Hawai'i ? Isn't it 3 am or something there now ? < tries to do maths>

Ok then how about my Dad who phones up and just starts talking, no hello/ how are you/ it's Dad, just launches into whatever. He's always done it so not senile. Drives me crackers, so I just say 'sorry, who is this?'. Which confirms his idea of me as a stuck up little madam probably.
love the idea of a theme tune mylittlefriend, on a little keyboard or even a small glockenspiel?

Your mom sounds like an, ahem, character, bellavita.

That is one way of putting it Chaos

I like to shout 'Hi honey I'm home 'especially if my teenage DS has his friends round

Well, back when I lived in the States, I would yell 'helllooo!' when entering my brother's house and they would do the same to me. Although I lived in an apartment and could see them come in.

Now the only people who have a key are my inlaws and they always ring when they get to the block of flats we live in so my husband can give his mum a hand, as she is wobbly on her feet (uses a stick) and my father in law always has things to carry and the entrance to our building is up a flight of stairs. So I always know they are coming.

So that was my long winded answer.

The short one is; no. I do not.

My friend leaves her porch door open and I usually slide it open slowly and call 'hi its youare'. Her DD's often see me arriving though and run out or DS gets there first and just swings it open and barges into lounge to talk to her DD's.

I tell him not too but she says its fine - so of course being her house DS says its OK as her house her rules.

theme tune for me. It's a bugger carrying the tape cassette deck round with me everywhere I go though and cueing it up every time I went to open a door.

I announce my arrival - if I don't I get accused of being moody or of there being something 'up' ... nothing's 'up' I just came in