To buy this to deter people from turning up unannounced?

[HelpfulAlex]

Very lighthearted, but how brilliant is this?! Lol - popped up on my FB feed.

😂

No it's not brilliant at all...obviously I am older than you...but when I was growing up there was no Internet....not everybody had a phone in the house...friends and family always turned up unannounced and were always warmly welcomed in by my parents...lots of people nowadays are socially weird and everyone needs an appointment to chap you're door it seems....WTF

Ha, love it! Would probably get nicked round my way though.

I would happily display that 😂

People turning up randomly would drive me spare, very happy it's not a thing round here. But if it is where you are you'll probably need more than a passive aggressive doormat ...

I'm not socially weird, but texting has been around for nearly 25 years now!

I'm sure 'socially awkward' people existed in the generation of your parents. Just because they gave a warm welcome doesn't mean everybody did, or wanted to.

At one time, "socially awkward" people ended up languishing in asylums.
Times have changed, thank goodness!

I have this.

I love having people over, but sometimes, people overstay their welcome.

Yes! 🤣
I find dropping by without calling the height of rudeness. It's like saying, whatever I am doing can't be important and I just have to drop everything to placate your immediate need for company.

Only one who turns up unannounced at mine is my mum in law then gets highly pissed off when we're not in!
We would actually have stayed in had you called and let us know you were coming!

Most people dropping round would say something like 'is it ok to pop in for 10 minutes?' Or 'let me know if I'm keeping you from something' etc. Which is the occupants cue to say actually I was just about to wash my hair or whatever excuse they can come up with.
Surely people drop in for a short time only, or for a particular reason. Not just to spend the whole day.
I am also of the generation that would drop over though, but was always to see if so and so could play. I've never dropped in as an adult and wouldn't do so.
Not when it's so easy to text first.

A friend of mine has a great tactic, she puts her coat on before she answers the door - if it's someone she wants to see then she says "Oh I've only just come in", take her coat off and visit; if it's someone she doesn't want to see then she just says "Sorry, just on my way out"

I was working for a Big Blue tech firm when texting was first a thing, remember one of my colleagues confidently declaring it would "never catch on" 😮

I used to think of myself as an unsociable arsehole but then I started reading mn and now I feel like the friendliest, most inviting person ever because I love going to my family members' houses I have no friends and having them turn up at mine at any time of day or night. We're always dropping in and welcomed with open arms and a full cup of tea or coffee.

I'm obviously in a minority on here but the idea of turning someone away for no reason other than they didn't text first seems really rude!

I want one that says,
"Unless you got pizza.... Piss off..."

😝

Christ, I need that. My in laws used to turn up unannounced all the pissing time. It drove me truly mad. The look I gave my husband would be so intense my eyes would hurt.

After one particularly memorable occasion whereby they turned up, crept around the back of the house, had brought guests with them, and rapped on the glass and scared the shit out of me as I was on the sofa slobbing about, there was somewhat of a showdown.

They now call ahead, but from the end of our drive and ask if they can come in. Fuck sake.

I'm obviously in a minority on here but the idea of turning someone away for no reason other than they didn't text first seems really rude

It would probably be cancelled out by their rudeness to not ask first.

She’s smart. Really smart. 😃

THIS ^^
I hate it when people drop in - no what I'm doing I'm supposed to stop and entertain them.

This is why I have a peep hole in my front door - I open it when I want to, not when others want me to.

I love unexpected guests, or I would but everyone calls first these days.

I used to have a warning sign 'Chats Lunatiques'.

@Juanmariaramierzand @FreezyFreezy - it was so good to see your posts! I posted on another thread recently, and it seemed I was considered odd for not sharing the angst about unannounced visitors. I don't live in the UK, and people still drop in here - and are welcomed. I just can't get my head around family and friends having to make an appointment to visit. I also agree that there are many more socially awkward people than there ever used to be - and to say they were "languishing in asylums" in earlier times as a pp said is just nonsense!

It doesn't really make sense grammatically. "Not calling and 'stopping by'" sounds like it's 'not calling' as well as 'stopping by' that's audacious.

Plus I don't think defining a noun by using verbs makes much sense.

Then the example sentence isn't an actual sentence. It would make more sense to say something like, "you had the audacity to stop by without calling first."

So YABVU because the sign is wrong and stupid.

I like the party banners and balloons that spell out 'please leave by 9'.

People drop in on me quite a lot, I don't mind really and I throw a great party so those balloons would make people laugh.

When I was a kid sometimes my mum would make us all hide when someone knocked on the door unannounced 😂

Not everyone always wanted guests dropping in without warning! This was pre internet but we had a phone they could’ve called.