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Originally Posted by BlueStarAirlines
For my older parents, having a phone ring and not answering it was a sin beyond comprehension. Having it go to voicemail was beyond the pale and only happened during extreme emergencies.
It seems like the same issue with people that knock on the door. Why answer? Look at your video doorbell....peek out the window. Its okay not not answer a door....especially for an unexpected stranger.
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Once upon a time when we lived in Connecticut, someone came to our door super late at night (after midnight). My neighborhood was mostly white, mostly families. The guy at the door was black. But he was standing back from the door at the edge of the porch. We figured - no burglar in his right mind would be coming to THIS neighborhood at THIS hour of the night, and ring the doorbell. So it must be something else.
So we answered the door. Turned out the guy's car had conked out on the highway, which ran behind the senior housing behind my house. Ours was the first house at the end of the senior housing driveway. We let him use our phone to call AAA, gave him some water, and sent him back to be with his family in their broken-down car.
Turned out to be a totally unexciting moment in our lives. The only time we didn't answer the door was Halloween, because people from the projects in another town bussed their kids to our neighborhood and we didn't want to have to buy candy for our own neighborhood kids PLUS over 200 kids who didn't even live in the same town. Plus there were some spoiled brat teenagers who DID live in the area, who wouldn't dress up, and just walked around ringing doorbells and expecting us to dump candy in their empty pillowcases without so much as a Trick or Treat. That got old REALLY quickly. So on Halloween we turned the light off, shut the drapes, and were "closed for business."