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Ever Knocked into the house where you grew up?

ronan45

The house I grew up in i i drove by recentle they have gates up now. I half thought should i ring the door and ask to look about?
Would it be ok to knock on someones house and say "can i look about i lived here 20 years ago" or would they think your potty?

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[Deleted User]

I passed by the house I grew up in on Ballyfermot Road and the owner was outside. I said hi and said I used to live there but felt a bit strange afterwards, thinking she probably thought I was insane or something.

phasers

yeah, Mam was none too happy that I'd forgotten my key again.

Latchy

No but it has crossed my mind many times and I would like to , so not as potty as you think although the present house owner might think otherwise .

120_Minutes

Bono did that once, he made a video about it.

Alter-Ego

I actually still have a key for every house I've lived in. I like Keys.

Turtyturd

Mine is all boarded up which is a shame when you think of the amount of time people are on the council waiting list.

It was strange when I first moved out because I still hung around there and my best mate lived next door so I spent a lot of time around it without actually going inside it. Took a long time to get used to strangers being in 'my home'. But as I grew up and my mates moved out we spent less and less time there.

I still purposely drive by it the odd time and it brings back a lot of good memories.

dazberry

After we all left my father put a big extension on the back of the house (why???) and eventually when he went to sell the house - no one wanted it because it then had a tiny back garden. In the end he sold it to "the corporation" who housed a woman and her disabled daughter in it.

A couple of years later, the husband of said woman was released from prison and moved in. As he is well known to the Gardai, they decided to hang around and watch the house and all his friends call in and out.

It even had a slot in the Sunday World - so it all must be true.

... so no, I'm not going to call in.

D.

seafood dunleavy

Paedophiles will try anything these days.

TanG411

About a year ago the council did up a small row of houses, one of them being my childhood home. Moved out when I was 10 -- I was an independant child -- but that's a different story.

I pass it whenever I go to town, which is nearly everyday because I have college. I've always had the urge to knock on the door, see who's living there now, and have a look at how it's done up. Obviously the owner will think I'm crazy and never allow such a thing to happen.

It's also on my mind to buy the house someday, unless the owners are paying a mortgage.

recyclops

A good pal of mine grew up in england moved over here when 13, last year we were goin over to england for a visit knew she was gonna head back to her old neighbourhood so unbeknownest to her, i sent the houseowners a letter explaining that she would be going over and asked would it be ok if she called in.
They got back to me said wouldnt mind at all if she knocked in knowing it would mean the world to her, so when there i strolled to door much to her shock and called in, the owner let us in had lunch etc ready and it made her trip, nice story really.

Up-n-atom!

Wouldn't mind going in just to see what the place looks like now. It was bought by a factory owner to house immigrants who worked for him, so dunno what they'd make of me strolling in to have a nose around at the front garden that's now a vegetable patch and the new extension.

Jesus Wept

It'd be nice if one house came to mind instantly but it doesn't.

galwayrush

The house i first got got laid in was replaced by a block of flats...

Absurdum

I just walk in, I still have my key

rannerap

I go by my old house every now and again ,I always want to knock in, but as someone said its completely crazy! Id rather remember it as it was anyway

[Deleted User]

My grandparents live in the house where I grew up, I see it every week

Mint Sauce

The house I lived in 20 odd years ago was a flat on the top floor of a high rise in south london, i'd be lucky to make it though the car park. So no.

Solnskaya

I live in an old house with previously posh owners and spend a fair bit of time telling sons/daughters/nephews/nieces/aunts/brothers in law of the past owners to "feck off, no, you can't look around, and yes, I am a rude man*. and no, I don't care who you are. Move on the feck.

My name is URL

I'd see it as kind of odd tbh.