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To: JRandomFreeper
“Heck, I don't answer the front door today, I generally flank that area and see what the knockee wants. Scares the crap out of most of them. ;)”

Wish I had that capability. The door is solid except for a peep hole and it's useless, can't see squat through it.

When the doorbell rings, unless I'm expecting someone, I hate opening that door. There is a glass door in front of the metal door but glass is not a great deterrent even if it's locked.

Late at night someone rang the doorbell and I really hated opening that door. It was the fellow next door whose cat had scaled the high brick wall in back and came into my small garden. I let him go through to the back to get his cat.

85 posted on 10/20/2012 9:47:40 AM PDT by Marcella (Republican Conservatism is dead. PREPARE.)
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To: Marcella

If its not a neighbor that I want to speak with the door doesn’t get opened. There’s nothing they have to sell that is more important than your safety.


87 posted on 10/20/2012 9:54:40 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Marcella

Long story... short point.

I live in an old house... built in 1913. The front door isn’t as tight as I’d like, so, in the winter when the cold winds blow, I seal it up and we use just the back door. Once I heard a knock on the back door in the middle of the night. As usual in those circumstances, I answered the door with a pistol in my hand. When I opened the door I saw a policeman who wanted some information about a neighbor. I laid the pistol on top of the refrigerator and continued to talk with him. He didn’t seem to be concerned about the gun or my actions. YMMV.


132 posted on 10/20/2012 11:34:31 AM PDT by oldfart (Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
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