Arriving Home and Greeting Etiquette

[Cake]

OK, etiquette question about something DH and I argued about this evening (yes, we have nothing better to do)

I think that, whichever of us is the person who has just arrived home from being out is the one who should seek out the other to say hello.

DH says it is the person who is already in the house who should come down to greet to the person arriving. He says it's 'The Rule'.

What say you?

Person arriving home second should say hello first (not just sneak in and scare the sh*t out of me DH!) but person already at home should at least look up from what they are doing for a short chat (not continue to play video games - grrr, he knows not to do that again!).

Love that clip shockers!

how big is your house? I can stand anywhere in mine and say hello in a normal voice at night and be heard.

trying to think what we do at night. He walks into the living room and we say hi to each other. I've never taken notice of who says it first.

If he's coming in after a night in the pub, I'm probably already asleep and if he woke me up, he'd be in trouble so no hellos at all there.

bloody hell. I didn't notice that.

who posted on a zombie thread and cleared the warning for the rest of us?

tut tut.

If you want a rule on this then I'd say it's the one who is in the house should come and greet the one who came in. Otherwise just ignore each other.

I like this question. It made me think about what we do. The person indoors should come to the hall- they aren't the one trying to take off a coat, shoes, put down bags etc. I think my husband likes it when I come to say hello to him and I know I like it when he does it to me.

If you really can't agree, take it in turns.

Whoever hears/sees the other says hello here. Much better then my ex who would greet me with a fart. Sometimes i smelt before seeing!

We, as in any of us including the children, tend to shout "Hi honey I'm home!" on arrival. Or the person in the house shouts "Nice day at the office, darling?".

We live in a flat and our front door opens directly onto stairs. Whenever DP comes home, I call "hello!" and he comes to find me in whatever room I'm in and comes over to say hi. When I get home, DP waits until he sees me at the top of the stairs before saying hello and I go over for a kiss.

I wouldn't expect him to get up to greet me and would I fuck get off the sofa to greet him either!