Woman yells at 8 yr old girl scout selling cookies (dad, permission, Illinois)
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Medicine cabinets and most pantry doors are made of a solid material. By your logic, looking at glass door cabinets is rude as well as what is in a curio cabinet. I am not advocating peering through bedroom windows or any window that has a covering over it, but clear glass panels on either side of the main entry door is almost an invitation to look through them. Trying to look past curtains or taking extra effort to see into a home is rude. If you approach a home with glass panels, do you focus solely on the door as to not give into temptation?
There are several houses in my neighborhood that have a secondary glass door in addition to the main wooden one. If one of my neighbors has the wood door open and the glass door closed, who's issue is it that I can see them walking around the house naked? Am I being rude for looking in or are they at fault because they did nothing to cover the glass? Granted, it is the main entry to the house, but what is the difference between 36 inches of glass and 4? Both are not covered. Both allow clear lines of sight.
That's the best excuse I've seen yet for snooping!
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Originally Posted by jackmccullough
You've never knocked on someone's door or rung their doorbell and then looked through the window in or right next to the door to see if they were coming? I sure have, and do.
I find it interesting that of that whole post of mine, which was fairly short, you pick this issue to disagree. But I'll answer. I've been a visiting nurse. I've probably knocked on more doors/rung more doorbells than anyone on this thread. If a patient/family member didn't answer after I announced myself that way, I'd knock/ring again. In that case, I might look inside to try to get their attention. If I didn't have an appt. after two attempts, I'd probably just push my business card under the door and leave. I have decent peripheral vision. If someone was right in front of the glass panels, I'd probably see them w/o trying to. I would not, however, try to peer into the house.
What about the part about not needing any reason to not answer the door, even to the police? What about the part about people not always getting the very large hint that you're not wanting to answer your door.
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Originally Posted by DelightfulNYC
In my town at holloween folks who dont want to answer door just put a rope across front steps and attach a sign that says no Candy. Some even put Cones up.
And your precious "snowflake" aunt should grow up and realize the world does not revolve around her
What part of being a woman living alone, with small kids at one point in time, and later as an elderly woman, don't you get? I'm going to presume you're male. Males tend to have far fewer concerns about their personal safety than women do. Maybe she didn't want to answer the door to a potential intruder, dressed up like Mickey Mouse or something.
I have been thinking about what I would say if a stranger ran my doorbell, peeked in, and for whatever reason I did not or could not get up from the couch. I would not know why the girl & man were ringing the doorbell. They could be looking for a lost pet, they could of had car trouble, they could be at the wrong house, or any number of things, so why would I call out "no, thank you" ?
I really can't think of something better to say than "go away" except "go away, please" or "I can't get up, so please, go away."
"Go away" sounds rude. Around here, scouts are required to wear their uniforms when fundraising.
1. My impression is the whole point of the cookie-selling is that it's something the child should be doing alone, and you shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Are you kidding me?? I'll post this again. This was 1973. After she was killed it was DRILLED into every Girl Scout's head not to go anywhere alone.
Just because you ring a doorbell, doesn't mean a person wants to, or is required to, open the door, any more than someone is required to answer the phone, just because you decide to call them. I would not let my child sell anything door to door, unless I lived in a close knit neighborhood where I knew the neighbors.
I understand that selling Girl Scout cookies is supposed to be an entrepreneurial exercise for the girls, but seriously, those days are gone the way of the Fuller Brush Man and the milk man, and the Girl Scouts need to review the process.
Just because you ring a doorbell, doesn't mean a person wants to, or is required to, open the door, any more than someone is required to answer the phone, just because you decide to call them. I would not let my child sell anything door to door, unless I lived in a close knit neighborhood where I knew the neighbors.
I understand that selling Girl Scout cookies is supposed to be an entrepreneurial exercise for the girls, but seriously, those days are gone the way of the Fuller Brush Man and the milk man, and the Girl Scouts need to review the process.
Wow, I remember the Fuller Brush Man coming to the house.
Daughter is some precious sensitive snowflake that this really bothered her?
I love girl scouts (despite their chemical-ridden cookies), but door to door needs to end. Immediately. I think most of us are tired of being cold-called...but accosted in your own home...it gets tiring and intrusive.
Most of the kids in our area set up outside the grocery stores and do gangbusters business.
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I was a girl scout and sold lots of cookies to strangers door to door. I don't remember any rudeness at all by our customers. It was a great experience for us girls and helped our troop, but people were much friendlier and polite to one another then than now. If there were parents or scout leaders around, they did not go up to the door with us, but stayed back on the sidewalk.
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