To not answer door to neighbour

[Koalababy]

It’s 8 am and neighbour has rung my doorbell twice already. Have no idea what they want but I don’t feel like answering the door. They probably know I’m in which is why they keep ringing the bell but AIBU to ignore until I feel like it?

*Well this is a dull thread.

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE NEIGHBOUR WANTED!!!!!!!*

Maybe OP has knocked on their door to find out........and they haven't answered.

I wouldn't. It's an invasion of your personal space really at that time of the morning. I would go round later and tell them not to bother you at that time of day in future unless it's a real emergency.

I would go round later and tell them not to bother you at that time of day in future unless it's a real emergency.

They might not answer the door. And call round at 8am tomorrow to ask what she wanted.

@Loopyloututu

They said "do you know your dog is on the roof?"

No - you hum it and I’ll join in!

Sorry - very old joke.

I had to ring my neighbour’s doorbell because I realised there was a gas leak outside his house. I would assume it was an emergency...

FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!

TELL US WHAT IT WAS ABOUT!!!!!

This is like waiting for the second shoe to drop.

I'd said yabu as o thought surely something is wrong.

Reading the backstory - yanbu if they're always complaining

Saw this and thought of you OP

Glad to know others are as bored as I am

Com'on @Koalababy we're almost through the day,WE NEED TO KNOW!

A few years ago a neighbour knocked on the door asking for help, she had found her Husband dead in his bed. Hope you never need to call for help OP, maybe some will ignore you

I want to know what they were wanting as well.

@CoronaIsWatching

I never answer my door unless I'm expecting a delivery. Why would I?

I wasn’t expecting the cream tea hamper sent to cheer me up one day last week. Good job I answered the door though... it was delicious!

Ok it depends on the neighbour of they are a pain in the ass and always getting on like this then absolutely no. 8am is way too early, surely that's just bad manners. If I'm chilling in bed or having breakfast or doing anything why the hell would i want to drop what I'm doing and listen to the bored grumpy lot from across road moan. When I'm in my house I want peace, I want to enjoy my space and not have to get out bed and put some pants on just to listen to Karen moan about where someones parked or neighbourhood kids daring to play outside.
I have an idea though, either ring their door at an equally annoying time maybe midnight or 2am or the next time you answer the door make sure you are inappropriately dressed, or remind them that you were very busy having a poo and if they could just write a note next time

@SchadenfreudePersonified

FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!

TELL US WHAT IT WAS ABOUT!!!!!

This is like waiting for the second shoe to drop.

nme8961 Acrophobia is a fear of HEIGHTS. Unless the door opens onto a sheer drop, cliff face or similar, I fail to see its relevance in terms of anxiety relating to, or unwillingness to people knocking on one's front door...

I think it was a typo for agoraphobia, @LadyMonicaBaddingham.

I did this other week to my neighbour she came down stairs to door sopping wet at 830am after bathing the dog 🐕

I wondered if she could sew me something as she is the local seamstress so entirely depends

It’s MN, nobody answers their door.
.....meanwhile back in the real world.....

If she knocked twice I would think it was important. Never till I read on here that people didn't answer their door. Let's hope she isn't telling you your house is on fire or she has an emergency. Of course if she has an emergency no one gives a crap.

I don’t know why I’m bothering to ask, as I’ve asked these questions on every door-answering thread and never had a decent answer... but:

1. Do people knocking at doors really behave in exactly the same way whether they’re selling church raffle tickets or warning people of fire? If I could see next door was on fire and I thought the neighbours were in and hadn’t realised, I’d hammer the hell out of the door, shout through the letterbox - whatever I could. If I was just knocking to say I had their Amazon parcel, I’d give up after knocking twice. If you read some of the responses on here, people would do exactly the same whatever the scenario. I’m just picturing MNers spotting the flames taking hold, politely knocking quietly and then saying, ‘Well, they obviously think they’re FAR too important to answer the door. Let the fuckers burn’.

2. What happens if people are out? I know there aren’t that many places to go out anymore, but many still go out to work, have to get their own shopping, just go for a walk... it’s not that unlikely that someone isn’t answering the door because they’re simply NOT IN. ‘My 94 year-old neighbour was having a heart attack and would have died if I hadn’t answered the door...’ Well, said as that is, she’d also have died if you’d been out at Waitrose/at work/at an orgy. Or... she could have gone to the next door along. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got no intention of staying at home for the rest of my life just in case some old dear keeps over. Call a bloody ambulance!

@maddiemookins16mum

It’s MN, nobody answers their door. .....meanwhile back in the real world.....

In the real world, the 60 million plus people in this country alone do not behave in the exact same way.

As long as it isn't possible that they've taken in a parcel, then you might be shooting yourself in the foot. We won't take packages for one neighbour because she won't ever answer the fucking door and takes weeks to come and get them. I think she must be in debt and worried about bailiffs or something because she never answers even when you can see her through the window.

@LadyMonicaBaddingham

nme8961 Acrophobia is a fear of HEIGHTS. Unless the door opens onto a sheer drop, cliff face or similar, I fail to see its relevance in terms of anxiety relating to, or unwillingness to people knocking on one's front door...

This was me 😂 you never know!

@LowlandLucky

A few years ago a neighbour knocked on the door asking for help, she had found her Husband dead in his bed. Hope you never need to call for help OP, maybe some will ignore you

And what did you do to help that a doctor or the police couldn’t have done? Unless you live next door to Lazarus, I’m guessing your next door neighbour’s husband was still dead even after you answered the door.