MNetters Explain Yourselves (Mark 2)

[TheMustressMhor]

In a second brave attempt to start this thread I am asking:

Why do some MNetters never answer their doors during the day

and

Why do some MNetters require that people send them a text prior to phoning them

and

Asking what MNetter behaviour you find difficult to understand.

Lighthearted

I got 44 messages on the last thread which had a glitch on it.

Where have all the responders gone?

Eating their tea/dinner?

There’s the other thing. Tea or dinner.

I say tea. DH says dinner.

It’s an ongoing thing

I have one.

Why do some mumsnetters keep bumping their thread if they don’t get a response within minutes?

Why do some mumsnetters keep bumping their thread if they don’t get a response within minutes

Painful.

The conundrum is that they never answer their doors and then get humphy about delivery men leaving their parcels in the wheelie bin.
I have visions of a kind of Mumsnet Stepford with everyone hyperventilating behind their nets.

Ok, I sometimes don't answer the door because the baby is asleep on me and I don't want to wake her. Or I can see it's a chugger/politician/salesperson I'm not interested in speaking to. I don't ask for a text before a call, but I don't like phonecalls much, and would prefer a text as a way to exchange info without talking to someone (antisocial).
Mumsnetter behaviour I find difficult to relate to are the ones where someone is clearly being walked all over or shat on from a great height, and they repeatedly allow this, and ask how they can stop this happening but without letting the perpetrator know that the op is unhappy with the treatment, without being rude, without a confrontation etc. There's no magic wand people, have a brutally honest conversation (preferably by text, obviously) and stop letting them treat you like shit!

I answer doors and phones. I'm a rebel

Because I never get visitors
Because it's always junk calls
And it's dinner

The one I wish would cease is posters landing on threads to say :

"Is this the new cancel the cheque"

No it isn't

"At least you didn't snap and fart"

Wasn't funny originally.

Or "depends, what did the X/Y/Z identify as?"

You are not the soul of wit and originality you believe yourself to be, it's been done to death, jog on and stop retreading old crap.

I never found the snapping and farting thing funny either @VanyaHargreeves.

Snapping and farting was about as funny as penis beaker.

Mind you, I did once use ‘no’ as a complete sentence, and it worked. (Earlier attempts to decline had been unsuccessful.)

It is apparently the greatest act of humour ever posted to the forum in the eyes of some.

Been on way better threads over the years.

Also separately, I have a couple of posters tagged in my head as PITA in real life because of the way they appear on any thread and manage to do an "anyway, that's nice for you all but back to ME, because my life is shit" merail.

What I mean is destroying lighthearted threads or another persons attempt at receiving support for the purposes of attention seeking

I always answer my door. I do not ever hide and try to pretend that I am out.

The whole thing baffles me.

I rarely answer my phone. I think the only person I always pick up to is my husband. I don’t like talking on the phone.

Why do I not answer my door? Simply because I don’t like drafts.

@anxioussue

Definitely dinner.

I never answer the door if I'm not expecting a visitor or parcel. I actually think it's the height of rudeness to visit someone unannounced so if you just turn up on my doorstep without telling me you are coming you will have had a wasted visit.

I only answer the phone to DP and the DC's school. All other callers go to voicemail so I can listen in my own time and decide who to respond to. I can't remember the last time I spoke on the phone to any of my friends, most are (like me) extremely busy juggling work and DC so we don't have time for calls. WhatsApp all the way.

Why do so many MNers spit wine/tea and why do so many still have keyboards?

Wrt to not answering the door- I have a story.

My lovely friend who usually has an open door policy was just sitting down to a cuppa when her back door knocked (everyone uses her back door so this wasn’t unusual). She thought the knocking sounded very rude/angry so she decided she wouldn’t answer and would enjoy her tea- if it was urgent they could call her. Minutes later sirens and armed police poured into her drive. She went out to the back to find dozens of police officers in her garden pinning down a man. He had stabbed someone and was on the run. The knocking was him trying to get into her house to hide. Thank goodness she didn’t answer the door!!

@draughtycatflap

I don't answer my door, because I don't like drafts.

How did you manage to spell DRAUGHT correctly in your username, but not in your post?

I'll get me coat. 😬

@TheMustressMhor

I rarely answer the door - unless I am expecting a package - because I almost everyone I know pisses me off, bores me, irritates me, twitters on about themselves, (and only listens to me if it's some juicy gossip,) and won't fuck off even when I keep hinting I have lots to do.

Satisfied?!

lighthearted ^

@MistyCloud because I was distracted when I had to hack up yet another furball.

I always answer the door and phone.
I like to live on the edge me 😁

It's not just Mumsnetters.

I am on another forum with lots of women from the US - not answering your door is common there too!

I always answer my door, but hate people dropping by. A text doesn't help. Just don't turn up unless you're invited :)