You only need to ring the doorbell/knock once

[fma_fanatic]

This just happened. I'm in the kitchen checking the food in our brand spanking new toaster/convection oven when someone comes along and rings the doorbell. Not once, not twice, but doing it so it goes ding-ding-ding-ding-ding, followed by pounding loudly on the door. Needless to say, this scared me, which I will explain.

It scared me because when I first moved here, I lived alone. About a month into living on my own, someone came pounding on my door at 2am, looking for someone who didn't live there anymore. It scared me (me, single female in new city that I was rapidly discovering was a bad part of town), and I had to call the police to get the guy to go away. I didn't live there for much longer (mostly because the rental office didn't want to renew my lease because I didn't have "steady work") and moved in with Da Dairy Druid not too long after that.

Anyway, I peek out the window by the door and see it's a UPS delivery guy. I open the door and tell him that he only needs to ring the doorbell, knock the door once.

He just shrugs and asks for my last name, mumbling something about the streets not being marked/lit up right. Yes, it is 7:30 at night, but the streets here are fairly lit up.

I am going to need to remember to tell my DME not to ship to my home anymore. This is also another reason why I don't have things shipped to home anymore.

ETA: the toaster oven worked like a charm. Fish sticks, mmmmmm.

[SmivMoc]

Your UPS driver did that? Ours just drops and runs. One time he threw a package onto the second floor balcony.

[pitmonkey]

We had a UPS delivery to the house but could not find it. The tracking showed that it was dropped of and the time. Went and checked the mail and there it was, in the mailbox. The driver never got out of the truck.

[underemployeed]

We had a UPS delivery to the house but could not find it. The tracking showed that it was dropped of and the time. Went and checked the mail and there it was, in the mailbox. The driver never got out of the truck.

Haha, through my dads insurance we used to get 90 days supplies only if you mail ordered them, well one of my brothers meds is a controlled substance that MUST be signed for, they left it on the front porch. Oh yeah my neighbor is a "suspected" (have to avoid possible slander because I don't know if he actually convicted) drug dealer, cops think it, locals think it. And after having a wonderful kinda twitchy gentleman standing on my porch and pounding on my door asking if "Do you : with pills?", I responded with my neighbors last name he nodded that is who he wanted. I told him wrong driveway and kinda figure my neighbor for a dealer at that point.

[protege]

We had a UPS delivery to the house but could not find it. The tracking showed that it was dropped of and the time. Went and checked the mail and there it was, in the mailbox. The driver never got out of the truck.

Lazy bastard. I would have called UPS, asked for a supervisors, and mentioned that he might not want to do that...the post office is a bit anal about things like "tampering with mail"

[Magpie]

Someone was at the door one evening. I'm assuming they were either soliciting for a charity or trying to sell something, as we didn't know him. He just held the doorbell down until my dad answered the door. Now my dad is about 190, and maybe 90-100 kilos, but it's the big bushy almost black beard and hair that really do the physical intimidation part. He opens the door, glares at the guy and says

You do not ring the doorbell like that.

and closes the door. Obviously scared the guy, because he didn't ring the doorbell again and have a glib explanation for why he did so.

[blas]

Try having a landlord who does that.

Every time it snows or has snowed and it's time for the plow to just randomly show up, the landlord comes in tow to bang on everyone's doors to make them move their cars.

I usually just park on the street when I get home so I don't have to deal with it.

One day one of the last times it snowed enough to need plowing, I was out for a smoke while the landlord followed the plow into the lot, parked in some really stupid spot, and then proceeded to start banging like the damn police on people's doors where there were still cars outside.

One apartment in particular, either no one was home or they didn't want to answer....and for a solid few minutes, he pounded and pounded and pounded on that door and I watched him hold that doorbell down......

Is that really necessary?

[Mr Hero]

So the postman rings twice and the UPS driver rings 5 times?

[PepperElf]

mine usually does a short knock like 2 or 4 raps etc.

tho the last time they didn't. which is odd cos the delivery was alcohol ... and the driver's suppose to verify the ID card...

[Rapscallion]

mine usually does a short knock like 2 or 4 raps etc.

I'm being cloned?

Nifty!

Rapscallion

[Imogene]

*knock knock knock* Penny. *knock knock knock* Penny? *knock knock knock* Penny?

[Spork4pedro]

*knock knock knock* Penny. *knock knock knock* Penny? *knock knock knock* Penny?

Ha!! I love Sheldon! The best was when Penny finished the knocks for him and freaked him out...oh and of course him in the ball pit...BAZINGA!

[Kogarashi]

We have one substitute UPS driver who rings some five times in a row, always when my children are napping. :sigh: Our regular guy rings once, which the kids manage to sleep through.

We've had the occasional maintenance person pull a multi-ring as well, which makes no sense because we usually know they're coming and they have keys to both the outer door and our inner door.