A stranger knocks on your door , asks to use your toilet, what do you say?

[CynBeth]

We also don’t answer the door if not expecting anyone.

 

[mrsstats79]

I would say no.

 

[DLgal]

Not a good move if you think someone may attack you. You'd most likely lose your life because of that chef's knife. I have other items myself.

My mother's friend sleeps with a BB gun under her pillow. What do people think in this world?

I'm really good with a chefs knife.

Actually, I'd probably grab my husband's fixed blade k-bar knife that can filet a horse.

 

[prairie_girl]

If my husband was home, honestly, I probably would.. provided they didn’t look coked out.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Oh I am so sorry, we don't have bathrooms in this house.

 

[ronandannette]

If my husband was home, honestly, I probably would.. provided they didn’t look coked out.

Based on the way my front door is located, for anybody to even find it, they need to be either coming here specifically or maybe are part of the grounds crew or here working on an exterior project. I'd be hard-pressed to turn anybody away who needed the washroom. And it would also never occur to me to not answer the doorbell if it rings. It feels like an unwelcome intrusion sometimes, but never once have I felt threatened by it.

 

[prairie_girl]

Based on the way my front door is located, for anybody to even find it, they need to be either coming here specifically or maybe are part of the grounds crew or here working on an exterior project. I'd be hard-pressed to turn anybody away who needed the washroom. And it would also never occur to me to not answer the doorbell if it rings. It feels like an unwelcome intrusion sometimes, but never once have I felt threatened by it.

Exactly! I’d hate to feel like a prisoner in my own home.

 

[fortwildernessishome]

Exactly! I’d hate to feel like a prisoner in my own home.

While I would NEVER open my door to a stranger, I have never once felt like a prisoner in my house.

Person knocks on my door.....I speak through the door and ask what they want........they tell me....... I offer to call someone who could help them, but I won't open my door to them...........they leave........I go about my day........no feelings of being a prisoner.

I live in the country. I can only see one neighbors house. I rarely get strangers at my door, but it does happen a few times a year.

 

[DLgal]

While I would NEVER open my door to a stranger, I have never once felt like a prisoner in my house.

Person knocks on my door.....I speak through the door and ask what they want........they tell me....... I offer to call someone who could help them, but I won't open my door to them...........they leave........I go about my day........no feelings of being a prisoner.

I live in the country. I can only see one neighbors house. I rarely get strangers at my door, but it does happen a few times a year.

You can speak to someone through your front door? Yikes. You might want to replace it with something a bit more heavy duty. Our front door is heavy and when you close it, its basically air tight. You cannot hear a person talking on the other side.

 

[fortwildernessishome]

You can speak to someone through your front door? Yikes. You might want to replace it with something a bit more heavy duty. Our front door is heavy and when you close it, its basically air tight. You cannot hear a person talking on the other side.

Its plenty heavy, obviously I do have to raise my voice, I'm not using my speaking voice as if the person is a couple feet from me. But its no problem for each of us to hear each other.

It sounds like your house or at least your front door area is sound proof, which I cant imagine! I don't know anyone that has a sound proof front door.

 

[DLgal]

Its plenty heavy, obviously I do have to raise my voice, I'm not using my speaking voice as if the person is a couple feet from me. But its no problem for each of us to hear each other.

It sounds like your house or at least your front door area is sound proof, which I cant imagine! I don't know anyone that has a sound proof front door.

It's pretty darn close to soundproof. I mean, I can hear it when the delivery guys throw boxes into it and they clatter to the ground, but I can't hear, like, kids playing out front or someone talking in a normal voice when the door is closed.

 

[GoingSince1990]

Totally depends. A bewildered looking old lady or distraught young mother with a child? Absolutely. A creepy-looking guy in his thirties? No way. There are plenty of bushes nearby to go in.

 

[Colleen27]

I'm normally pretty welcoming but someone coming here to use the bathroom when we're less than a block from the business district and a 24hr gas station would be a pretty weird circumstance that would have me more cautious than normal. Unless it was something like one of the runners in tomorrow's 5K, which passes my house and happens on a day when most everything in town is closed, I just can't picture it happening.

 

[indimom]

I'd probably point them toward the multiple businesses located around the corner.

 

[amcnj]

I do answer the door, opening it to talk to whoever it is. Unless something seemed really sketchy about them, I probably would let them in. I guess I would shadow them to the bathroom and hang around nearby. The medicine cabinet has nothing in it but Tylenol, deodorant, toothpaste, and Brioschi, so that’s not a concern here.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

I wouldn't answer the door to a stranger unless there was obviously some kind of emergency situation. But then again, where I live someone would just sneak off into the woods in a bathroom emergency, it's probably different in a more populated area. Lol, the last time I opened my door to a stranger was years ago after a heavy snowfall, the guy was clearly lost because I watched him drive up our long road/driveway, try to turn around at the end when he figured out that all that was there was the farm, and then get stuck in a rut. Dude came up to the door and asked to use a snow shovel so I gave him one, and then he dug himself out and drove away with my favorite snow shovel, I think out of spite because he initially asked if I could pull him out but given that I was home alone with my babies and it was low double-digits weather outside that was not happening.

 

[Tattylou]

I wouldn’t open the door- I’d maybe talk to them through the ring camera …and I might not even do that.
We live a 5 min walk from lots of retail businesses- they can go to Dunkin Donuts if they need a bathroom.

 

[John VN]

Sorry, but I'm the only john in this house.

 

[JLTraveling]

Nope. Didn't open the door to strangers pre-Covid, and certainly not now. But like others, I would talk to them through the door...or more accurately the storm shutters. Open the door, speak through the shutters. Easy peasy. There's a corner store directly across the street open about 18 hours a day, if it's the middle of the night they can go to the bar one block down. No need to use a stranger's bathroom around here.