Front Door HarassmentThis morning as I walked to the front door after dropping Scytheboy off at school, I noticed something was attached to the door handle. Can I just say that I HATE IT H-A-T-E it when people leave stuff attached to my front door handle, inserted into the door frame, taped to the front door, placed on our little table in the front door area, or taped to the side windows by the front door.
What is it with these people? I didn't ask for information about their cleaning services (I know I clean better than they ever could), their crappy Chinese takeout food, their lawn service, their seemingly cost-effective carpet cleaning deals....I don't care about ANY of it!!!!
I especially hate it when they rubber band the stuff to my door handle. Then when I take it off invariably the rubber band pops my finger, pissing me off even further. I think really that's what they're trying to do when they do the rubberband thing...piss me off. That's it, I know it. And I am NOT paranoid.
I guess what annoys me most about the whole thing is that by leaving the stuff scattered all over the front door area these people are forcing me to then DO something with it. Of course, what I do before I even walk through the front door is immediately walk to the dumpster and throw whatever it is away - WITHOUT looking at it.
And I HATE when they leave business cards or flyers in the door frame and you have to bend down and pick them up to throw them away.
Oh, I know. Their goal is to make sure you SEE what they've left. But at least with me, all they're doing is ensuring I never buy the product or service they're trying to advertise to me WITHOUT ASKING ME if I was interested.
The people ringing the door bell are bad too, but at least you can choose not to answer the door and they'll eventually go away.
Are you with me on this?
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Comments
I hate when you find things stuck under the windshield wiper of your car. Which I usually don't see til after I get in the car. Sometimes I have been to lazy to get out and remove it and have driven home like that.
Posted by: Sarcasmom on October 1, 2005 05:26 AM
Fortunately, living in the middle of nowhere, no one would waste their gas to drive to our house to leave something on the front door. But I DO hate it when I come out to my car and the junk mail is tucked under the windshield wiper. Because then I have to throw it away somewhere, and since I don't want to litter, it usually goes into my car!
Posted by: catherine on September 30, 2005 08:47 PM
I hate the flyers because they tell any passing by that I haven't been home yet. A real security issue.
Posted by: yellojkt on September 30, 2005 08:07 AM
Don't you have to get permission for that sort of thing? I thought unsolicited mail was just that, unsolicited.
Posted by: Janet on September 29, 2005 09:23 PM
I get so tired of all the crap that comes by mail. What a waste of paper.
Posted by: Paula on September 29, 2005 11:43 AM
Living in an apartment building is supposed to keep this stuff from being put under my door.
One day earlier this year I came home to a flyer with graphic pictures of an abortion.
I was furious and gave the management company who runs my building an earful for allowing that to be put under our doors.
Posted by: Scully on September 29, 2005 11:15 AM
