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In reply to the discussion: How do you react when I knock your door after dark with election materials in hand? [View all]Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)6. I won't answer any knock on my door after dark.
So don't do it. Please.
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How do you react when I knock your door after dark with election materials in hand? [View all]
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
OP
Yeah. Nobody's ever pulled a gun on me. Yet. Now and then, I'll knock a door
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#5
I usually only knock doors after dark in bad neighborhoods. In the better neighborhoods,
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#9
I haven't learned how to break into garages yet. So you're safe for now
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#14
A few weeks back, I was staying out until 7:30 or 7:45 but now I knock off around 7:00
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#11
Lots of folk aren't home until after 5:30, and sunset was around 6:30 today
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#15
I guess I could deliver a free pizza to every door I knock, but I can't afford it right now:
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#19
A lot of folk, who are obviously home, don't answer their doors even in broad daylight
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#33
If anybody ever offers me food, I'll remember that : "Wait! This could be kydo the serial killer!"
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#22
I certainly shouldn't give you grief for being careful about opening your door to strangers
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#30
I generally knock in the dusk, before the afterglow has entirely faded
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#36
You can use the word however you like, I suppose, but its legal sense here, as I understand it,
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#104
You can use the word however you like, I suppose, but its legal sense here, as I understand it,
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#141
Even in the summertime, with long days, I've never knocked a door after 9:00 PM: a number of folk
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#32
My average contact might be about sixty seconds. I figure folk didn't invite me,
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#41
No offense but I'd tell you to take a hike regardless of who you're canvassing for.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#31
Maybe about one in a hundred of the people, who actually answer the door, tell me to get lost:
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#35
No. You're not alone. Plenty of folk, who are obviously at home, just don't answer the door
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#46
I walk the streets of Detroit at night quite often and have never had a problem.
last1standing
Oct 2013
#48
Other - I don't open the door but your free to leave the materials in the mailbox.
TeamPooka
Oct 2013
#45
I'm won't leave materials in your mailbox: I prefer under your mat or rolled into the door handle
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#47
thats fine too. I actually have a box on the porch for stuff like this & flyers to new sushi places.
TeamPooka
Oct 2013
#49
As long as your not selling Religion or magazines, you've got my attention for a while.
Agnosticsherbet
Oct 2013
#52
I'd be a shizzy door-to-door salesman, and I really can't imagine doing that Mormon/Watchtower thing
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#57
This is a "non-partisan" municipal election, and the top two vote-getters in each primary slot
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#60
I don't have pets, but I meet them regularly doing this, and they're almost always quite friendly
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#59
If you say you don't want us knocking your door, I'll make every effort to get your name off my list
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#69
If your place is that hard to find, you're not on my walklist: I have a limit to how much time
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#73
If I'm going thru a walklist, I'm going to try to break at a natural spot: I'd rather finish a page,
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#72
"Sunset was about half an hour ago, and I really should quit. I won't finish these doors tonight."
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#124
I might be able to count on one hand the number of times I've been told in years of door-knocking
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#79
In my years of doing this, I've only heard people mention guns two or three times -- and always
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#149
It's an internet message board. All manner of persons post here with all manner of motives
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#155
I'm an unpaid volunteer. But I've done this for years for some well-organized campaigns.
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#80
If you are a Democrat, which you are bound to be in my neighborhood, I thank you for
JDPriestly
Oct 2013
#81
Your neighborhood is probably too sparse for me. I want to be able to park on the road,
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#83
What do you get when you cross a Jehovah's Witness with a Hell's Angel?
Douglas Carpenter
Oct 2013
#86
What a great idea! I drive onto the lawn on my chopper, bang the door, and tell them
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#113
For many of my efforts, I'll get better responses by "dressing down"
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#114
I do what I can to be considerate. Different people are different. I don't know them all,
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#110
Unless you like to be barked and growled at and surrounded by super protective dogs
Jamastiene
Oct 2013
#93
After determining that you are not selling something (easy what with the campaign lit & buttons)...
Hekate
Oct 2013
#95
I encounter somebody unpleasant now and then. It's rare, and it's impossible to decide
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#108
Every door I knock during the week lets somebody else knock another door on the weekend
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#120
Some states or municipalities might have solicitation laws or ordinances that apply
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#122
Just tell me what time: I'll make sure some folk are here who want to talk with him
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#128
If they're GOP or Tea Party materials, I'll chase you off with the water hose, LOL
Erose999
Oct 2013
#130
After dark's currently around 6:30pm here and getting progressively earlier, so meh. (nt)
Posteritatis
Oct 2013
#134
Yeah, by the end of the month, sunset here will be 6:15 PM, and when Daylight Savings Time ends
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#142
Folk who don't want their doors knocked can always put a Keep Out sign at the lot edge, or
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#140
Or -- since a number of people I spoke with this week were glad to see me, asked questions
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#154
I'm pretty sure almost everybody recovers quickly from whatever trauma I inflict
struggle4progress
Oct 2013
#159
the fundamental roots of grassroots democracy is going door to door - that is the historic method of
Douglas Carpenter
Oct 2013
#144
I work nights too- quite frequently - if one must not be disturbed - I have at times used a "do not
Douglas Carpenter
Oct 2013
#150