When someone knocks on your front door when you're not expecting anyone.

[vulcanlogician]

I'm a writer

So what kind of stuff do you write? (If you don't mind saying.) I've always wanted to be a writer, but life took me different ways. Maybe after I retire I'll crank out an Anna Karenina or something...

[Edwardo Piet]

Thank you, problem solved

-Teresa

The problem is also solved with a wild stab in the dark.

... "which, incidentally, is what you will be getting if you don't start being a bit more helpful"

[Seraphina]

I'm a writer

So what kind of stuff do you write? (If you don't mind saying.) I've always wanted to be a writer, but life took me different ways. Maybe after I retire I'll crank out an Anna Karenina or something...

Not much, really, unless you count endless case notes for insurance claims at my job lol
Every once in awhile I'll throw in an obscure word into a report to see if anyone is paying attention (usually not )  
I'm more comfortable with the written word than spoken. Maybe the two skills use different parts of the brain?

-Teresa

[The Valkyrie]

So what kind of stuff do you write? (If you don't mind saying.) I've always wanted to be a writer, but life took me different ways. Maybe after I retire I'll crank out an Anna Karenina or something...

Not much, really, unless you count endless case notes for insurance claims at my job lol
Every once in awhile I'll throw in an obscure word into a report to see if anyone is paying attention (usually not )  
I'm more comfortable with the written word than spoken. Maybe the two skills use different parts of the brain?

-Teresa

Insurance claims?

Then you're qualified to write fantasy.

[Seraphina]

Not much, really, unless you count endless case notes for insurance claims at my job lol
Every once in awhile I'll throw in an obscure word into a report to see if anyone is paying attention (usually not )  
I'm more comfortable with the written word than spoken. Maybe the two skills use different parts of the brain?

-Teresa

Insurance claims?

Then you're qualified to write fantasy.

Haha - you got that right.

Pro tip - if you fake a work injury, you might get an undercover investigator after you with a long, powerful camera lense.

-Teresa

[The Valkyrie]

Insurance claims?

Then you're qualified to write fantasy.

Haha - you got that right.

Pro tip - if you fake a work injury, you might get an undercover investigator after you with a long, powerful camera lense.

-Teresa

Mine isn't a work injury and I have the x-rays to prove it.

But there is a weird guy following me around with a camera. Either he's an insurance investigator or Iggy's breaking the restraining order, again.

[Haipule]

Living in the country, not many people knock on my door.  Those that do are either package delivery people or Jehova's Witnesses.  Anyone else is treated like a potential threat until their motives can be discerned.  There's too many tweakers and petty criminals in the area for my liking, and I don't put up with that kind of shit.

Along those lines, nothing annoys me more than someone I know deciding to just drop by out of the blue.  People who actually know me know not to do it, but it still happened from time to time.  I find it to be incredibly selfish behavior.  "Oh, I'm in the area and wanted to say 'hi', but in actuality I'm demanding you drop what you're doing to entertain me.  Because I value my time more than yours, and feel that my mere presence warrants your undivided attention regardless of what you were doing or in the middle of."

I mean, if someone wants to meet up and hang out, cool.  Let's do it.  But don't just think I'm going to drop what I'm doing (even if it's something dumb) simply because you show up unannounced.

True story:

My friends used to show up unannounced all the time and then drink all my beer. So, I told them don't even show up with out a 12pak. One day they showed up with a 12pak. That was cool! However, they showed up everyday with a 12pak. I thought it was weird but, left it alone.

So, I go to my local liquor store to buy some smokes. They asked me when I was going to pay my tab. I said, "what tab?" "The tab your friends have been putting 12paks on all week".

FUCK!

[vulcanlogician]

I'm more comfortable with the written word than spoken.

Me too.

[Fireball]

When someone unknown comes to my front door, I start moaning like I'm having sex.  It's the same thing I do when I get from scam callers.

One of my neighbors claims that he was boinking his girl when some jovies showed up at his door. He claims further that he answered the door with a raging hard-on and asked them, "WHAT?!". Given what I've seen him do on other occasions, I'm inclined to believe him. He further claims that they never came back, after that. I should try that with my wife. The next time some of them show up, both of us could go to the door and camp it up. It would be amusing, to say the least. She wouldn't do that, though. She argues chapter and verse with them (and she knows the damned stuff). They usually slink off right quick when she busts their chops on their quotes. Now, if only she was an atheist.

[possibletarian]

Am I the only one who feels super fucking nervous when someone knocks on your door and no one is invited and you really don't wanna answer?

I don't feel too nervous the first time. But if they knock more than once I feel really anxious and I wish they wouldn't do it.

If it's repeated several times that really distresses me. I wish people would fuck off. It's probably fucking carol singers or some shit. But uninvited is uninvited for a reason, and I've never answered the other two years I lived here. And after I don't answer the first time surely they should take a fucking hint?

If there's a second knock I end up playing loud music in my headphones. Fuck off random person whoever you are. If it was important I'd get a letter or at least left a note afterwards.

If it's uninvited AND important, then leave a fucking note you dipshits.


Grrr. In case you can't tell. It just happened. It's so upsetting. They knocked twice so far. I think they've fucked off. Thank fuck. Loud music is in my headphones now. Uggh. It's really shaken me up. I hate being disturbed when I'm meant to be A-FUCKING-LONE. Privacy is privacy! PERSONAL SPACE omggggg. Really bothers me. I hate the way normal people are. I don't go knocking on other people's addresses uninvited at 7.30 fucking PM at night when it's gone dark. Fuck off randomers.

Just remember when you have ordered pizza that they will come knocking on your door :p

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I have windows that give me an unobstructed view of both the front and back doors from both the first and second floors of the house. There's also an enclosed porch at the front of the house, with a locked door between the front steps and the main entrance.

That said, any unexpected knock or doorbell does make me jump.

I can see who's at the door too. I live on the outskirts of a country village so a knock on my door is almost always a neighbour. Most the day in summer I leave the back door open ( I have an walled enclosed back garden) I really enjoy the air flowing through despite having to help bumble bees out all day.

I always associate knocks on the door with a friend calling even if it is late. There will surely be that one time though when I find two smartly dressed folks at my door asking "what do you think about the state of the world," ? I think I would do some silly like tell them to hang on a minute. Get them both an apple or some fruit, give it to them, and close the door. That would confuse them.