Somebody rung my doorbell at 6.30am! Why??

[ThatsSoFetch]

I live on my own with my 2 children - 4 and 9 - and not in the nicest neighbourhood but honestly we have never had any problems. This morning though at 6.30am somebody rung my doorbell!

I went downstairs, peeped through the peephole and saw there was a person stood there but couldn't make out a face as it was dark. I asked through the door several times 'Who is it?' Very loudly I might add! And got no reply.

So I ran upstairs to get my phone - in case I needed to call the police - ran back to front door and proceeded to ask who they were again. Still no answer. So ran to my living room (3 storey house so this is upstairs) to look out the window to watch someone leaving but nobody left so they must have left the front door before I physically had eyes on it - window is locked so took a few seconds longer to locate the key.

I don't need to ask the question of if any of you would have opened the door as I'm fairly sure you would have all not opened it either but - I thought should I ring the police anyway on the non urgent line just to mention it? Bearing in mind I couldn't tell them anything about who it was.

Equally pretty worried about the house - we have motorbikes in the garage and it's that time of year isn't it!!!!

Don't think the OP is coming back.

She’s opened the door and found a parcel there..... realised she was being a bit over dramatic....

My postie wouldn’t necessarily hear someone calling out through a CLOSED door as he generally has one earphone in when on his rounds. I can hear hardly anything through my front door unless it is VERY loud shouting.

Poor posties are damned if they do and damned if they don’t......

06:30 is not an acceptable time to deliver anything.

She’s opened the door and found a parcel there..... realised she was being a bit over dramatic....

One of these millions of parcels people have no clue is due to arrive.

One of these millions of parcels people have no clue is due to arrive.

Well I’ve only had three that I didn’t know were coming... one for my DD (she had forgotten to tell me she’d ordered something), one from my brother and one from my FIL. I’ve sound that it’s quite common to be sent gifts at this time of year.

06:30 is not an acceptable time to deliver anything.

Especially when it’s such a quiet time for delivery workers, it’s not like they have a bazillion parcels to deliver in time for Christmas......

Couriers work around the clock at Xmas to get everything done in time, if 0630 is unacceptable to you the leave the 21 century and do no online shopping.

I'd have opened if they identified themselves.

The fact they didn't makes it suspicious.

We've had problems with people ringing doorbells overnight near to me recently. It's kinda sad as they are homeless drug addicts and are begging for cash for taxis (not for taxis but that's what they say).

Our local police force have urged people to report via 101 if it happens. 999 of immediate danger.

Anyone think maybe they didn’t hear her ask who is it? You can’t hear through my door.

100% not a police matter though, I’d be more worried if it was the middle of the night but plenty of people are up and about at 6.30am

We have the police patrolling our estate due to a spate of break ins. Some of these have been happening in the early hours of the morning. We have also had a note pushed through our door saying that a search warrant has been executed in our area. Which explains the noise DH heard one morning last week.

So no i wouldnt have answered the door.

Fenella while trans activists are successfully using the police as their own private army and the police are finding the time to go along with their whims i aint buying it.

Earlier this year we lived rurally and one of our dogs barked intermittently through the night-then someone rang the doorbell around 2:30-my DH was gonna open the door I told him never to do that it could be a home invasion-I called 911-the cop supervisor called back and said it was "probably a ring and run by kids and did I still want an officer to respond?" My reply "Yes!!" The two who responded knew we were far too rural for a prank and then they heard a motorcycle revving nearby and they wound up chasing them in their car but lost track of them and returned to our house-they never saw any evidence of attempted break in but they told us to call if we heard or saw anything else suspicious and they'd be near our house on patrol. Anyhow we were lucky that night and I hope you stay safe

WOW some massive, nasty bitches on this thread.

OP was on her own with 2 young children. Of course she was concerned! Had she not been, the same bitches would have criticised her for that no doubt.

Seriously, some posters really give women a bad name.

Op come back. Any update?

Seriously, some posters really give women a bad name.

yes, the ones who wants to call the police because someone rang the doorbell

I don’t know where you all live that you could ring the police to say that someone knocked on your door and you’d expect them to take it seriously. But here in Glasgow you’d probably get charged with wasting police time if you called to report that. And rightly so.

I opened my door at 6:45 am last week. Dh had already gone to work.
I didn’t have a clue who it was (turns out it was a delivery 3 days early by the postman).
I really didn’t give it any thought at all.
I should probably be more cautious as when I was about 15, I opened my parents front door and this strange man walked straight into our house. Luckily my older brother came out and saw him off!

agent That’s not what the charge of wasting police time is for. But I agree the police will do zero about it.

I am a bit baffled by all these people who don't answer the door (excluding the PTSD sufferer).

Sometimes people knock on my door at odd times. It's a bit of a maze around here and they're invariably lost. If they look particularly desperate I'll put my shoes and coat on and take them to where they're supposed to be. Most unusual caller was someone's emergency plumber who knocked on my door during the full force of the Beast from the East.

I have a working door chain and a letterbox that opens if I need to converse with someone without opening it. Shouting through the door never works. Miming through the kitchen window has a decent success rate but makes me feel like a prat.

I regularly used to open my door at that time of the morning, winter or summer to get in the car and go to work! 6.30 is not the middle of the night!

Many years ago an elderly man was trying to open our front door with his key, I went to the door and opened it and the poor chap seemed confused, so I phoned the local police, as you could in those days, and it was a man from the next road who was suffering from dementia and had got lost. He was staying with his daughter and family and had somehow slipped out.

How in the name of fuck has someone managed to shoehorn the trans issues into this batshit thread?
Or are we playing a new MN game where we try to get away with inserting the most irrelevant to the thread word we can think of?
Shall I go next?
"Maybe the OP didn't open the door because of cauliflowers"

While studying years back I did a temporary 'Christmas post' job (it's rather well paid & you need to apply in Sept to have any chance). We started at 6.30am, done by 11.30. Permanent staff did a 2nd post. So it could be a delivery & they had headphones in. (my current post guy always has headphones in).

so what if the OP had been a night shift worker and had only just gone to bed.

I would have been more worried if it was 4.30 am. If it happens on a numerous occasion then I guess, call non emergency number and log it.

You can’t judge every situation by “what if she was a night shift worker?” I’m sure there are lots of nightshiift workers who’d be livid to be woken up at 10am.

Nightshift workers get woken frequently by door bells.

I put a note on my door after a nightshift saying nightshift worker sleeping do not knock/ring bell unless someone is dying.