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To expect a bit of privacy in my own bloody house!

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nogoes · 15/02/2007 10:48

Last week I was having a rather leisurely breakfast with ds and we were still slouching around in our PJ's when someone knocked on the front door (we live in a cottage with no hallway) I didn't want to open the door in my skimpy nightwear so I scrambled across the floor and up the stairs with ds but the person continued knocking and had used next doors garden to get into our back garden and was banging on our patio doors. I got dressed and answered the door expecting to find a mad axeman as he had been banging quite frantically anyhow it was the bloody meter reader although I was a bit pissed off with him as half the street were twitching their curtains because he was literally banging the door down I could see his point of view as he had thought that ds was in the house alone.

Anyway this morning we were again in our pj's as I was up half the night with ds when someone knocks on our door and we have a repeat bloody performance! . I am halfway up the stairs on my way to get some clothes on when the bloke at the door starts banging really loudly and shouts "Don't pretend you are not in I just saw you run across the floor!" I don't know who it was as he had gone by the time I got downstairs, it is unlikely to be the meter man again but I am just so fed up that people feel they can invade your privacy like this! Am I being unreasonable?

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Oati · 15/02/2007 10:50

wear a dressing gown

dejags · 15/02/2007 10:51

Why didn't you just shout out that you were nipping upstairs to get changed or failing that, tell them that it wasn't a convenient time from behind closed doors.

mytwopenceworth · 15/02/2007 10:54

or

a) if you dont want to wear dressing gown, keep one downstairs, maybe near the door, to slip on.

b) get nets/blinds so noone can see in thru the windows.

c) lock/chain your gate and put a bell on it (i had this at my old house, nobody could get near the house unless they rang and we went out to unlock the gate

d) answer door in your sexy undies. be proud.

PeachesMcLean · 15/02/2007 10:55

Well you could shout "I'll be there in a moment" but yes, the 2nd man was certainly very rude.

PeachesMcLean · 15/02/2007 10:57

On the other hand, your house is warm enough to wander round in skimpy underwear? At this time of year??

What about global warming deary!!!??? Turn that heating down and put a dressing gown on. Now!

nogoes · 15/02/2007 10:58

Right I am off to M&S to get a dressing gown then.

MTPW, b) I do have blinds which are closed but I have a small frosted glass window in our front door which you can see in if you are about 6 foot or taller.

c) Our door opens onto the main street so not an option

d)Yes I think I might. That will scare them off and stop them from bothering me!

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nogoes · 15/02/2007 11:00

Peaches, you have a valid point about the heating I have our heating set to 23 degrees which is comfortable if you are naked if you wore a jumper in our house you would be sweating buckets!

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Katy44 · 15/02/2007 11:01

This would drive me mad!And why would the meter reader assume your DS was in the house on his own instead of assuming you were in the shower / bath, or racing to get some clothes on, as you were?!
I know this is probably a bit impractical, but can you lurk behind the front door until the second man comes back, then just as you see him raising his hand to knock, open the door and say "Yes, can I help you?"

Freckle · 15/02/2007 11:43

If second man comes back and comments on his earlier visit, just tell him that you have extremely infectious gastroenteritis and had to get to the loo to avoid diarrhoea all over the place - and that people banging unsociably on your door wasn't helping matters .

I would also take note of which company he is from and then ring and complain about him.

Budababe · 15/02/2007 11:46

23 degrees?????? Why?

nogoes · 15/02/2007 14:42

Cold bones Budababe, tbh 23 doesn't feel hot to me it is only when other people started commenting that I realised it may be a tad higher than normal. When I go round to my pil, bil and sil I always take my fleece and I am still freezing!

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Bozza · 15/02/2007 14:48

but nogoes you can't be that cold if you are sat around in next to nothing.

nogoes · 15/02/2007 14:51

Well this is it Bozza, perhaps if I turned the heating down I might be more inclined to wear clothes.

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brandy7 · 15/02/2007 14:51

i would have been pissed right off, i dont have a hallway either and th efront door opens straight into the living room.all the heat goes straight out, i dont open it to anyone unless they are v.i.p's.

i normally call through the door and get rid of people that way, cause im a miserable ole bag

last time the meter man came it was peeing down and no way was i opening the door for all the cold/rain to come in so i read the meter myself and stuck the reading on a post it note on the front door

Judy1234 · 15/02/2007 15:11

Thinking of when Cherie Booth was first at No. 10 and opened the door to get the milk to the world's press in her nightie....

We were all sitting round the table, curtains open eating a meal and a salesman who walked right past the window, saw up, rang on the bell last night.... I said we don't buy at the door and left him but it was after 7pm, pitch black and he could see in that we were in the middle of a meal.

The privacy thing is more a problem internally - this house is like Piccadilly circus, always huge numbers of people around. Never all out at one time.

nogoes · 15/02/2007 15:20

I know I hate it when we are eating especially if we have guests. I think I might stick one of those no cold caller signs on the door.

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WayBackWhen07 · 09/11/2022 14:43

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Laiste · 09/11/2022 15:02

It's totally up to you if you don't want to answer your door for whatever reason! The way you feel or the way you're dressed.

If you take so long to answer the door that they given up then it is what it is.

What's NOT ok is to bang and bang on someone's bloody door as if you're entitled to an answer!

Angry for you OP 😡

Threadkillacilla · 09/11/2022 15:04

ZOMBIE

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