Callers to the Door

MRnotlob606 · 21-11-2013 10:14AM

watch out for people selling knifes,

YumDeiseMum · 21-11-2013 10:34AM

Had similar trying to sell me knives in Ferrybank Tuesday evening, fecker nearly broke the glass in my front door he knocked so hard, frightened the bejesus out of me. What I really want to know is why have none of these people ever learned how to just use the door bell?

CardBordWindow · 21-11-2013 11:05AM

YumDeiseMum wrote: »

Had similar trying to sell me knives in Ferrybank Tuesday evening, fecker nearly broke the glass in my front door he knocked so hard, frightened the bejesus out of me. What I really want to know is why have none of these people ever learned how to just use the door bell?

People may ignore a bell. Hammering on a door gets a reaction.
That way they know there is somebody home.

Sully · 22-11-2013 12:11AM

Doorbell may wake kids in bed, generally rule of thumb is that you knock in the evening. A lot of doorbells don't work so could be another reason why its skipped. Some houses have more than one bell!

taytobreath · 23-11-2013 06:27PM

Sully wrote: »

Doorbell may wake kids in bed, generally rule of thumb is that you knock in the evening. A lot of doorbells don't work so could be another reason why its skipped. Some houses have more than one bell!

I learn something new everyday, that's a new "rule of thumb" to me. Thank you.

Sully · 23-11-2013 06:59PM

taytobreath wrote: »

I learn something new everyday, that's a new "rule of thumb" to me. Thank you.

You're very welcome!

whatanidiot · 27-11-2013 03:19AM

I had someone to my door the other day for a large animal charity in Dublin. Bit pushy which I would ignore, what really pi**ed me off was the complete lies he told me. I keep somewhat to date with animal welfare and he started with questions like do I know how many days a stray is kept before its put to sleep and it went from there. He was a bit shook when I knew the answers! My dog barked midway and he asked what kind of dog I had...as someone working for an animal charity I was a bit taken aback when he didn't know what a staffordshire bull terrier was! BUT the worst part was he tried to convince me that 10,000 dogs were put to sleep in Ireland last year and wait for it, 3,600 of these were in Waterford!! Particularly bad when the real figure is 59 between the City and County pounds. I was extremely annoyed over this. He actually spoke in a rude and nasty way towards the dog warden and the animal charities in the county. This type of scaremongering has two consequences. 1 being the locals won't support the local charities as they believe they put all the strays to sleep and 2 that people will just see it as a losing battle and completely stop supporting these amazing charities. And he was completely disgusted when I said I wouldn't be giving him a penny as I support those local charities.

ex_infantry · 29-11-2013 07:49PM

whatanidiot wrote: »

I had someone to my door the other day for a large animal charity in Dublin. Bit pushy which I would ignore, what really pi**ed me off was the complete lies he told me. I keep somewhat to date with animal welfare and he started with questions like do I know how many days a stray is kept before its put to sleep and it went from there. He was a bit shook when I knew the answers! My dog barked midway and he asked what kind of dog I had...as someone working for an animal charity I was a bit taken aback when he didn't know what a staffordshire bull terrier was! BUT the worst part was he tried to convince me that 10,000 dogs were put to sleep in Ireland last year and wait for it, 3,600 of these were in Waterford!! Particularly bad when the real figure is 59 between the City and County pounds. I was extremely annoyed over this. He actually spoke in a rude and nasty way towards the dog warden and the animal charities in the county. This type of scaremongering has two consequences. 1 being the locals won't support the local charities as they believe they put all the strays to sleep and 2 that people will just see it as a losing battle and completely stop supporting these amazing charities. And he was completely disgusted when I said I wouldn't be giving him a penny as I support those local charities.

that fella defo sounds like an idiot lol

PropJoe10 · 30-11-2013 02:47PM

Just dont answer the door. If its someone you know they will ring you. Thats the approach I take.

wellboytoo · 30-11-2013 02:56PM

I have a neighbour who is a Jesus freak used to call all the time to speak to the wife and try give her the monthly edition of some magazine, keep her ages at the door but she was too quite to put a stop to it.
I saw her walking towards the door one day so i stripped to the kacks and answered the door with a big smile and asked her to come in.
Never saw her since.

looksee · 30-11-2013 03:05PM

wellboytoo wrote: »

I have a neighbour who is a Jesus freak used to call all the time to speak to the wife and try give her the monthly edition of some magazine, keep her ages at the door but she was too quite to put a stop to it.
I saw her walking towards the door one day stripped to the kacks and answered the door with a big smile and asked her to come in.
Never saw her since.

Had two goes at that post before I figured it was not her that was stripped to the kacks!

wellboytoo · 30-11-2013 03:55PM

looksee wrote: »

Had two goes at that post before I figured it was not her that was stripped to the kacks!

Edited accordingly .perish the thought seeing that particular lady in her kacks

spikadelica · 21-01-2014 11:34PM

Reviving oldish thread I am sorry, but my sister in law has had a couple of strange callers to house in Cherrymount last couple of evenings, she seems to think it might be someone scoping houses out. Car is parked out of sight and caller said he was looking for number 56 and then proceeded in opposite direction...I would say just be a little watchful. Sister in law alerted the Gardaí so hopefully they may check it out.

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