I had to vent about something that happened a little while ago because it caused some anxiety and feelings of annoyance. It's not just today; I feel this way every time it happens. I had just finished taking a shower and started to pull the shower door to the left in order to step out and grab my towel. Suddenly, I heard a knock at the front door. As my luck would have it, the bathroom window (which just happens to be a few feet away from the front door) was open an inch or two. I could see a guy's face reflecting in the mirror in front of me. I winced, quietly shutting the door and standing there...naked in the shower and waiting for the guy to leave because no one else is home to answer the door and I'm not enthusiastic about giving the door knocker a birthday suit surprise. A few minutes go by and he leaves, but I'm annoyed. I don't know if this makes me strange, rude, and abnormal, but I detest unsolicited door knockers.
What is a UDK? People who knock on your front door uninvited and without polite notice. I'm not talking about friends and family, though I generally like to know if they plan on stopping by too. No, I'm specifically talking about strangers making house calls. I realize there are situations or emergencies that come up which require flexibility on my part to open the door when someone comes a'knockin. But rarely has it ever been something serious or life threatening when it happens to me. It always seems to occur when no one else is home to get the door. And when I'm in my pajamas, naked, or in the middle of taking a nap. I'm not sure where my pet peeve comes from. Perhaps it has something to do with the unexpected home invasion visitor I had back in Kingwood when a diabetic alcoholic neighborhood woman walked through the door that has made me neurotic about people at the door ever since (that happened 11 years ago). Or maybe it's my contradictory unfriendly need for privacy when I'm at home.
In any case, haven't people heard of giving the heads up with a phone call before resorting to door knocking?
3 comments:
I feel ya. But its usually the Old Bill who are knocking on my door. But never for anything I've done. It's just the neighbors think it was probably me and sent them my way.
Maybe if you answered in your birthday suit he'd be so embarrassed he'd blush and go away! ;)
Hahaha
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