people that just walk into your house unannounced- why?????

[annie3001]

i would hate that!

my brother in law has been stopping by our house (unanounced) working on his car (that he still owes us money for

) he comes over to work on it.
just last night about 9pm, my hubby and I were putting our kids to bed, when my husband heard a car door shut.
we are out there, no street lights, and i dont lock my car door ( i really should) well, who is it in our driveway!!!

my brother in law, him and his girlfriend, using a flashlight to work on his car!! no phone call to tell us he was going to stop by!!! ugh!!! thats all we ask!! i was mad!!!!
honey hubby took care of him.... he will be calling now.

 

[Dunkopf]

I would still knock. I hate going into a house without an invitation from inside.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

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Now I could go there about the Canadian and a gun but I won't

seriously, a lot of my friends are Canadian. I'm on the border near Prescott Ont. I have noted that all of my friends in Canada don't like people just "showing up", so some of it may be cultural?? I have a few extremely close friends that know it's ok, but for everyone else, I get pretty unglued myself.

 

[Wolfwoman]

A.T. Hagan :

The last person that walked into my house by surprise and uninvited got to see how big the bore of a .45 looks like.

That's a good way to get killed.

I didn't have a dog then. I do now.

Same here, same caliber. I have dogs too.​

 

[Cat Water]

Even if people knock on our doors, we still don't answer it. I either call for my dad, or if my dad's not home, grab the phone and a gun and go hide. Even if it is UPS or something. We are wicked paranoid over here!

 

[desertdarlene]

I don't know if it's cultural or just the way certain people are. Most of my family is Canadian or descended from Canadians who originally came from England and they all don't like people showing up unannounced. I know with a lot of my family, it's upsetting because many of us live like slobs and we would like to be able to straighten up the house first.

 

[oesdog]

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I don;t think that originaly comes from England!!!!! English History is one of small industrial communities with back to back houses and families would have lived in the same area, street even for generations. There was no need to knock and most folk would have left their back door open " incase someone ran out of sugar or T and needed to borrow some and you were out!" Of course now a days its far different and you certainly wouldn;t do that kind of thing now especially in those areas of England which have mainly been taken over by imagrants anyway.

Oesdog - I am with the shot gun!!!!!!!

 

[Mattemma]

I keep the windows and doors locked.The driveway gate is also locked unless dh is on his way home,and he called that he will be home in a few minutes. If I see someone pull in the drive I walk to the locked gate and ask what they want.I no longer open up for anyone and ask them what they want.

I would be upset if anyone just walked in.Definitely poor manners that needed to be corrected.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Exactly.

 

[Me & My Peeps]

A.T. Hagan :

The last person that walked into my house by surprise and uninvited got to see how big the bore of a .45 looks like.

That's a good way to get killed.

I didn't have a dog then. I do now.

Ditto! (ecxcept I still dont have a dog)

Even my family/parents knock. I had a neighbor years ago that thought because "we were neighbors" that it was ok to just walk right in. I had a .40 on me and when I heard the door open and loud foosteps - I came around the corner drawn, safety off, round chambered and front sight focused on center mass. He immediately froze and apologized profusely and it took several minutes to calm him down.

I'm not a big gun nut or self defense person but if you come in my home unannounced, I will think that you mean me/my family harm - until I am convinced otherwise. Military and law enforcement kinda jaded me, so im pretty aware of just how quickly things can go bad and what people can do when motivated by drugs/etc. He lost his house to foreclosure a year later and moved out. But, he always called the house before coming over after that! LOL

BUt some people are OK with it. I helped with an addition on a friends sisters house years back and they always INSISTED that I just walk in when I arrive in the morning. I never did though. I would poke around outside, set up the cords, do some layout, make a few cuts.......then they would come to the door and invite me in. To this day, they still insist that I just walk in to their home when I arrive. I just am not comfortable with it, and their some of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet.​