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Callers to the Door

batm!ke

Has anyone noticed an increase in levels of people calling to the door for whatever reason? In the past week we've had two 'charities', and two other calls we didn't bother answering as we have a baby and had our hands full at the time.

The reason I said I'd start this thread is literally 10 mins ago two young lads with a clipboard rang the doorbell, I just happened to be hitting the hay early tonight, usually not in bed before 12, but before I could get me feckin pants back on they were on to the house next door!! Who the fu ck rings the bell at 10.15 in all fairness. The missus was looking out the window at them which is how I have the little bit of detail above.

A lad from World Vision called the other day while I was at work and was very pushy with herself, wanting her to sign up on the spot and wondering would her 'boyfriend' be interested etc. And after all that he wanted to use the bathroom!! She's not the confrontational type so she let him in as she had the house full of her family and felt safe enough, but there's no way I would have if I was there.

Am I being paranoid? Are these people sussing the place out? I'm in the Gracedieu area. Sorry about the long post but I'm curious to see if anyone else has had the same experience, especially in this area.

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MRnotlob606

watch out for people selling knifes,

YumDeiseMum

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

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

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

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

taytobreath wrote: »

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

You're very welcome!

whatanidiot

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

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

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

wellboytoo

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

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

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

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.