Re: Unannounced visitors ......
Originally Posted by
Patsy
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Does it bother you, if a visitor turns up at your door without ringing you first ?
I have never turned up at someones door expecting them to drop everything because I've decided to visit them, but we get this a lot. Even though our internal phone is not directly charged, so costs nothing to ask if they can pop over - Ggrrrr, don't like it ........
I would really dislike visitors turning up at my front door, without phoning me first and I would never turn up at theirs unannounced either. Neighbours with an emergency of course is totally different.
A friend of mine who I see from time to time was doing a 'ramble' which took in our village. She e mailed to ask if she could pop in after the walk but I said I would be out visiting my MIL and wouldn't be in. We came home early as I was very poorly. We'd just got through the door when my mobile went. It was another friend who I only see a couple of times a year and she was on the same ramble. The two 'friends' had decided it would be a good idea to come to my house as the walk was just finishing and they were close by.
I explained how I'd just got in and that I was feeling very ill and not up to visitors, but this 'friend' still kept on insisting it would be a good idea. I said that I was about to go to bed, and she even asked me if I was 'actually' in bed!! I felt a little peeved that I'd been put under pressure and had to keep insisting that I wasn't up to seeing anyone.
Had it been one of my very close friends then I probably wouldn't have minded seeing them in the state I was in.
So, the answer to your question is, that it definitely would bother me !!