Do people just walk into your house like they do in TV shows?

[Potts]

A newly married friend of mine was living in his in-laws apartment upstairs from them.
Her father had a bad habit of just uocking the door and walking in anytime he wanted. He would just putz around, check a few things and leave.
So one day my buddy said he was getting ready to shower, his wife was out, as he heard the keys jingle in the locked front door. He walked over, opened the door and stood there naked and said "hi, I was just going in to the shower, cmon in".
Her dad turned and said "oh, I didn't know you were home". (Yeah right).
Since then, he always knocked and waited for the door to open.
Lol

 

[hanks73340]

Even our sons know to call before coming over unannounced. The wife shoots straighter than me

 

[Lazerwolf]

My family and friends walk in and never knock or ring door bell. Saves me from getting up and answering door.

 

[slepr1]

Never. I always lock the door when we are home. I don't live in fear but it only takes 1 crazy meth head to wander in and "what's that saying?...would've could've should've". Even my car doors are locked if they are in the driveway. Learnt the hard way on that one.

 

[slimt]

at their own risk

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Great picture.

 

[ZR9B]

When I was a kid most of my friends parents insisted I walk in without a knock. As a kid I thought nothing about it, that would have been late 70s early 80s......now never.

 

[barbee6043]

Call before you go and knock on the door when you arrive. Southern courtesy 101.

 

[Sahara]

We never, ever just walk in without knocking, and usually text ahead, as well. We expect the same.
But some cultures are different.
Up here it’s mostly aboriginal. In that culture friends and family just walk in, unannounced. They are offended if you knock first because it shows that you don’t think of them as good friends. True story.
But another thing that happens on TV that makes me crazy is that nobody takes their shoes off in the house. Do that in my house and I will ask you nicely once to remove them. Second time, I don’t ask nicely. Third time I toss you out the back door and into the yard. Got as far as step two a few times, they knew I was serious about step three.

 

[Cranky]

Most people coming to my place wait outside to be invited in. Mainly because I am standing at the door on a higher level, and looking menacingly at them. JW's get the full wrath of my presence....even the old ladies that try and weedle their way in.


PS....I have the neighbour's cell phone number now.

One day someone knocked on the front door (I disconnected that damn doorbell 36 years ago!!) pretty hard. Looked though the view hole and saw two women that looked a bit pissed so I pulled out my .45 and answered the door with the pea shooter hanging at my side. All 4 of them backed off the porch.....yup, two grown women and 2 little girls....JW's lol. Felt a bit bad and apologized but didn't feel too bad. That was probably 10 years ago and there hasn't be any JW's here since! I must be on their black list now

Call before you go and knock on the door when you arrive. Southern courtesy 101.

Yup....but every now and then someone tries. One day someone came into my garage and started up with a sales pitch. I was in the back of the shop which is 52' long AND is over 100' off the road. I shut him up real fast and told him he had 5 seconds to turn around and leave and the ahole started to argue with me about it until I picked up a gun and said 'your 5 seconds is up'.....that hasn't happened since either.

 

[Duckmanreno]

You see this all the time in Sitcoms and movies....Some friend just opens the door and walks into the apartment or house.
I am not a fan of that.
I'm not in a bad area. I'm on a dead end street and we don't get much traffic. Our garage door is usually open and used as the main entrance so friends and family come in that way.
I have a few friends that do this. It isn't like I'm naked on the couch when they show up but it still is annoying.
There is a standard understanding with everyone that comes here. Call or text when you're on you're way. Almost everyone does do this so it isn't really a shock when they come in.
Still.....
Does this happen to you?

I keep waiting for my invite to check out the Charger lol.
No I don’t even walk into my best friends house with out knocking, and we have been friends for 40 years.
And I don’t walk in to my dads house unannounced.

 

[dadsbee]

Once you leave home you'd better at least ring the door bell, as you don't want to see your Mom bent over the meat block in the kitchen at lunch time....

 

[Ironbuilt]

I live in the country where EVERYONE is armed. Walking in someone's home uninvited probably won't end well.

 

[wahya]

A friend of mine lived in a, let’s say questionable neighborhood. His daughter got a new bike for Christmas and went out to ride it. She came back home crying. She told her dad that a boy took her bike. Dad went to retrieve the bike and saw the boy sitting on the bike and he ran, yelling at the kid. The boy picked up a rock and threw it at my friend and he took off on foot running inside his house through the front door. The door was left open and my friend ran into the house as the kid ran out the back door. There were people sitting at the kitchen table as my friend ran out the back door. He wasn’t able to catch the boy.
Years later, there was a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood and several juveniles were caught and they talked freely with the police. They went down a list of the houses in the neighborhood and asked did you rob this house, yes, this house, yes. They asked if they ever broke into my friends house. No, that man is crazy.

 

[cr8crshr]

Absolutely a resounding NO!!!! My doors are locked and I keep my garage doors closed. Only Family members have a key also. It is for their convenience and mine only. If I know in advance that they are planning on stopping, then there are no surprises when they do open the door and walk. No surprises that way. I have neighbors that from sun up to sun down open their garage doors and I never see them continually around. Just inviting something to occur by doing so. Those that feel so safe by leaving their doors and garages unlocked and open, are just asking for trouble...cr8crshr/Bill cr8crshr/Bill

 

[NoCar2023]

Most of my friends and family walk in our back door but, our Schnauzie keeps us informed of intruders well in advance.

I used to have a nosey neighbor that would pop her head over our block wall unannounced. One day the wife and I were in the pool...she got more than an eye-full...I just gave her a wink and a smile; she never did that again.

>I raised that block wall shortly after...

 

[NoCar2023]

 

[moparedtn]

We're a quarter mile from the next neighbor up here.
General rule of thumb is to respect one anothers' space anyways (and therefore showing
the simple common courtesy of calling ahead if you want to visit).

We have a few longtime trusted friends who has been granted "porch privileges" (and only then,
they still know enough to call ahead).
Anyone else, regardless of who, best not only call in advance but give some sort of heads up
as they come up the driveway as well (a quick toot of the horn suffices).
If we're at home, I already know they're coming anyways (benefit of a long approach road and
being a few hundred feet up in elevation from the main drag below) - and if I don't know them, they'll quickly
learn the expected courtesies up on my ridge.

The lesson: me standing on the porch waiting on them with whatever firearm I've grabbed at my side
in ready view (not aimed, yet - just readily visible).
Lesson #2 (a quick advising that the way they just approached my property isn't the wisest in this
part of the country for them) is reserved for those who insist on continuing to approach....
Yes, the delivery companies all know this about this address.
So do the county LEO, who are advised of same by their sheriff.

 

[64BEL]

We lived in upstate NY in the '60s on a suburban street that was right out of the Wonder Years (the original). 2 of our neighbors had an open door policy thing going. The moms would walk in and out of each other's houses liked they lived there. No one else in the neighborhood did that, though.
I don't even like drop-ins, let alone someone trying to walk in without knocking.

 

[dla4567]

I’m an asshole, nobody visits us.

 

[Ghostrider 67]

When we first moved here in 2012 the neighbors across the road and up a ways kept pestering us to come to a Friday night get together.... So we went. Once. It lasted about ten minutes. Some asshole I had never seen before sauntered up to me and said, " So, your the war hero huh. Ya don.t look like much." He tried to say later that he was just kidding around....or so I heard through others...We didn't get invited back. Ever. I didn't hurt him. I wanted to but my wife gave me the "Look" and silently shook her head, " No". I simply got in his face about 2 inches away and whispered, " She just saved your life asshole". We got our coats and left. The husband waves at me and occasionally says Hi, but the wife acts like I'm invisible. He was her friend I guess. Suits me right down to. the ground. She's the type who would be the HOA rep for a community and be a literal NAZI about every rule...