Am i being a grumpy git...

Tolk
Tolk Posts: 775
edited November 2010 in The Crudcatcher
We keep getting charity workers knocking on the door in the evenings, now, i have no problem with charities. We work closely with a local charity at work, but I'm getting really narked off with them harassing me at home in my free time i like to spend with my son before he goes to sleep.

Anyone else have this problem, or is it just me?
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  • They knock on our door on a weekly basis. Sometimes more. I answered once - some charity for kids in poverty - got the usual speel, which is kinda fair enough, but if I gave money to all of them my own kids would live in poverty. So I just said, nah, sorry, I'm not interested.

    What, you're not interested in helping kids in poverty, accompanied with an expression like I'd just thrown one of them off a bridge.

    I had to refrain from saying that I don't give money to rude fucks like himself.

    So yeah, I get a bit miffed with them.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    i never answer my door to anyone for any reason.

    i hate people.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    The worst ones are those who just sneak in in the middle of the night, and take your television, BD player etc, without asking, so they can sell them on to raise money for their charity.
    That's just bang out of order.
  • Tolk
    Tolk Posts: 775
    i never answer my door to anyone for any reason.

    i hate people.


    Even family? Actually, you don't need to answer that!
  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    Start answering the door stark bollock naked I am sure they will get the message eventually.

    Just make sure to get dressed before you order a pizza delivery so you dont forget,
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    it is probably fairer to say i dont answer my door to anyone i didnt invite, ever at anytime.

    i will look through the window and if it isnt someone i am expecting i will ignore them. i particularly like it when the would be webster catches my eye and tries the door bell again so i can shout go away.

    if i havent invited someone to my gaff, i wont go to the window in the first place. it is always some sheepscunt for whom i have no time.
  • i never answer my door to anyone for any reason.

    i hate people.

    this is genius! ahaha
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  • *AL*
    *AL* Posts: 1,185
    ahaha

    + potato.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    it is probably fairer to say i dont answer my door to anyone i didnt invite, ever at anytime.

    i will look through the window and if it isnt someone i am expecting i will ignore them. i particularly like it when the would be webster catches my eye and tries the door bell again so i can shout go away.

    if i havent invited someone to my gaff, i wont go to the window in the first place. it is always some sheepscunt for whom i have no time.
    Just out of curiosity, I take it you never have friends turn up un-announced then?
  • I always answer the door just on the offchance that it's Cheryl Cole :?

    Often it isn't, so I smile politely and say, 'Sorry I don't buy anything on the doorstep.' Quick answer from a girl last week, 'I'm not selling anything.' I said, 'You won't be disappointed then.'

    I thought I was very clever at the time. But now I keep thinking what if she had a message from Cheryl or something ...
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    it is probably fairer to say i dont answer my door to anyone i didnt invite, ever at anytime.

    i will look through the window and if it isnt someone i am expecting i will ignore them. i particularly like it when the would be webster catches my eye and tries the door bell again so i can shout go away.

    if i havent invited someone to my gaff, i wont go to the window in the first place. it is always some sheepscunt for whom i have no time.
    Just out of curiosity, I take it you never have friends turn up un-announced then?

    not any more, the last time it happened my mate told me he had visited the day previously and i told him i knew, but ignored the door, he was put out but it soon became well understood that when i finish work, i dont want anything to do with anyone until the following day and between those times i will be sat almost naked on my sofa in front of the telly.

    i didnt know i was such an anti-social tw@ until i moved out of the block where it was kind of essential to be social as you all live on top of each other.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I always answer the door just on the offchance that it's Cheryl Cole :?

    Often it isn't, so I smile politely and say, 'Sorry I don't buy anything on the doorstep.' Quick answer from a girl last week, 'I'm not selling anything.' I said, 'You won't be disappointed then.'

    I thought I was very clever at the time. But now I keep thinking what if she had a message from Cheryl or something ...
    Even better than actually saying anything remotely usefull would be to just answer the door, look a bit dissapointed and say
    "Sorry, you're not Cheryl cole"
    And close the door :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    when i finish work, i dont want anything to do with anyone until the following day
    I'm not the only one like that then?
    That's not a routine thing for me, but I do quite often like to be alone after finishing my day.
    I have to be nice to people at work all day (yes, ME, really!) I just can't be usually be arsed with people when I get home.
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,780
    i went visiting relatives and paying some respects in a cemetery the other week and wondered then if it was possible to have a head stone that just said "Fuck Off" on it.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Probably not, but I'm pretty sure you could get one with "sit on it" written on :lol:
  • When I lived in America as a teenager my parents had a huge problem with Jehovas witnesses coming to our door every weekend at the same time. After about 6 months of my parents politely telling them we were not religious and had no interest in joining and to please leave us alone, they finally got fed up of them coming back to try and convert us. Problem is they just see it as a challenge. So eventually my parents told me to get my Ariakon paintball gun and start tagging them as they came up the driveway. 6 Months of harassment to no end, and 30 paintballs later it was finished. I suggest the same.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    A good friend of mine lived with his family in literally the middle of nowhere. Halfway up a mountain, and through a forest. Amazing place. It was a good 10 minute walk or so from the nearest b-road, which wasn't on most maps.
    EVEN THEY had Jehova's witnesses coming round! :lol:

    They used to tell them they had no interest, but seeing as they'd come so far, would they like a cup of tea and some cake? :D
  • A good friend of mine lived with his family in literally the middle of nowhere. Halfway up a mountain, and through a forest. Amazing place. It was a good 10 minute walk or so from the nearest b-road, which wasn't on most maps.
    EVEN THEY had Jehova's witnesses coming round! :lol:

    They used to tell them they had no interest, but seeing as they'd come so far, would they like a cup of tea and some cake? :D

    That's some hospitality. They rape my soul if I let them in my house.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    when i finish work, i dont want anything to do with anyone until the following day
    I'm not the only one like that then?
    That's not a routine thing for me, but I do quite often like to be alone after finishing my day.
    I have to be nice to people at work all day (yes, ME, really!) I just can't be usually be arsed with people when I get home.

    we are the same in that respect.

    when i am at work i have to listen to the sound of my own voice for hours on end during training as i instruct the teams and some days i am virtually talking for 8 hours. i make sure i am as enthused during the first hour as i am during the 8th but when i get home i want to shovel my tea into me like im eating in prison and sit in silence.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Well, the family were probably the coolest, most down to earth folk you'd ever meet. They just told them they weren't interested, but they would never be nasty to anyone.
    Awesome folk.

    I do wonder if the tea and cake is the REASON that the Jehovas kept coming roud though, hehe!
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,780
    i was once told by a once devout catholic (now lapsed) that telling Jehovah's witnesses that you were a practising catholic immediately as you open the door has the same effect as salt on a slug. something to do with the institutionalised nature of catholic indoctrination and a very unresolvable-ly sore sticking point over some biblical interpretation that i had no clue about and glazed over immediately

    anyway, years later i tried it and they didn't linger. worth a mental note for future ref, i reckon
  • Jehova's Witnesses knocked on our door this morning. I ignored them.
  • When I lived in America as a teenager my parents had a huge problem with Jehovas witnesses coming to our door every weekend at the same time. After about 6 months of my parents politely telling them we were not religious and had no interest in joining and to please leave us alone, they finally got fed up of them coming back to try and convert us. Problem is they just see it as a challenge. So eventually my parents told me to get my Ariakon paintball gun and start tagging them as they came up the driveway. 6 Months of harassment to no end, and 30 paintballs later it was finished. I suggest the same.

    6 months? They would have been getting painted the first time if it was my house!
  • projectsome
    projectsome Posts: 4,478
    it is probably fairer to say i dont answer my door to anyone i didnt invite, ever at anytime.

    i will look through the window and if it isnt someone i am expecting i will ignore them. i particularly like it when the would be webster catches my eye and tries the door bell again so i can shout go away.

    if i havent invited someone to my gaff, i wont go to the window in the first place. it is always some sheepscunt for whom i have no time.
    Just out of curiosity, I take it you never have friends turn up un-announced then?

    Being lazy, I always phone before going to a friend's house. i don't like going all that way just to find noone aint home.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I sometimes pop in un-announced to see if a friend is home, if I'm passing anyway.
  • When I lived in America as a teenager my parents had a huge problem with Jehovas witnesses coming to our door every weekend at the same time. After about 6 months of my parents politely telling them we were not religious and had no interest in joining and to please leave us alone, they finally got fed up of them coming back to try and convert us. Problem is they just see it as a challenge. So eventually my parents told me to get my Ariakon paintball gun and start tagging them as they came up the driveway. 6 Months of harassment to no end, and 30 paintballs later it was finished. I suggest the same.

    6 months? They would have been getting painted the first time if it was my house!

    Yep, my parents were very well known in the community and didn't want to draw any form of bad publicity to themselves. Good and bad side to my dads job I guess
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    is he the king of england?
  • Tartanyak
    Tartanyak Posts: 1,538
    He's the owner of the world's largest home-made codpiece manufacturer. The entire town if dedicated to crafting them, except for a single suburb that's branching out experimentally into merkins.
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    kaytronika Posts: 580
    I adopted a polar bear about 3 years back and they still haven't delivered the bugger.

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  • Tartanyak
    Tartanyak Posts: 1,538
    They did. The post office left a card but it got mixed in with the junk mail. It died in the sorting office.