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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]kydo
(2,679 posts)17. I'm probably the only one that picked that I'd give you a beer and sandwhich
the question is would you take it? I could be a serial killer and the beer could be laced with something or the sandwich deadly. Or I could be a really cool person that likes people that try to help people by doing what you are doing and just offered an awesome ice cold beer and big huge hoagie.
So do you feel lucky?
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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
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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