Someone rang our doorbell at 11pm, asking if he could shovel our sidewalk for a few dollars!!! The only reason i told DH to open the door was because i didn't want someone to continue ringing the doorbell and wake up the baby.
I wonder what would have happened if DH wasn't home! Ugh...we need to make sure our curtains are closed more tightly from now on.
cantaloupe / 6800 posts
I don't think that makes it any less safe? It was probably just someone who is in desperate need of a few bucks. Totally weird to show up on someones doorstep at 11pm though!
pomegranate / 3160 posts
Ehhhh...that's odd. I immediately see it as a ploy to see if anyone is home/answers the door...if not, break on in. If it would have been at 5pm or something, no biggie, but 11pm sets off red flags for me. Not cool!!! 
honeydew / 7444 posts
@MrsTiz: yeah, i know it doesn't make it less safe (wasn't sure what word to use in the subject) but he was definitely a bum. Now that i have a baby things like that freak me out a bit.
@ms.janedoe: for sure...11pm?? When i peeked out the window, i saw him riding away on his bike.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
That is creepy...considering the time of day. People did the same thing to my parents house, they acted as if they were broken down (hazards on, hood up) and they came to the house for "help" and when no one answered the door they robbed my parents of all things valuable. Scary.
grapefruit / 4862 posts
I would have called the police, no one should be soliciting that late! I hate our HOA and that FL is so CHOCK FULL OF THEM but it's nice that there's a huge NO SOLICITING sign when you pull in our neighborhood. We still get some, but I just politely remind them of the sign and tell them to leave the neighborhood. I've never had to call the police because none were... sketchy? feeling.... but I am glad to know I could.
grapefruit / 4671 posts
@Freckles: This would freak me out too. At my parents house in London, Irish travellers often often turned up at the door late at night asking to pave the driveway. We usually just didn't open the door, but once I opened it, and said no thanks, our driveway is just fine. Closed the door and peeked out of the living room window to find him breaking our paving stomes with a huge sledgehammer! Then he came back to the door and said it looked like it needed work!
Ever since then, I am freaked out by people ringing the bell after dark.
bananas / 9628 posts
ringing the doorbell at 11pm is rude, but i'd rather have someone going around offering to do work and get paid for it rather than panhandling.
honeydew / 7444 posts
Looks like my fears weren't unfounded. Just ran into a cop who was canvassing the neighbourhood because there were 14 breakins this afternoon!!!
kiwi / 540 posts
@Freckles: Wow, that's a crazy amount of break-ins at one time!! That is scary!
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