Do friends (or family) walk straight into your house without knocking?

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Its really getting to me now.
It doesn't matter how many times I give hints, a mate of mine walks straight into my house and has done it for years.
I've even come down stairs and he's been sitting there on the settee.
No knocking, no ringing the doorbell - just comes straight in.
I've played little games when I've known he's coming and I've locked the door only for him to barge into it.
I've told him to stop where he is because if he comes any further he'll see my 17 year old in her knickers and bra, so he stops, I draw a curtain across and he carries on but he doesn't get what i'm really trying to say.
Sometimes when he comes in I ask him if he's knocked or rung the bell but he just laughs.
Even his son (about 25) who I don't really know that well was standing in my living room when he wanted something off me. I asked him who let him in and he just said the door was open. I mentioned that he could have walked in on my family half dressed but he still did it a couple of weeks later.
I don't want to actually say "Don't come in my house unless I answer the door".
People who I don't mind walking straight in (mum, dad, sister, nephew etc) all wait until somebody opens the door.

Does anybody else suffer from this?
 
Lock the door ?

I do it too at uni, since they can hardly hear the door from their rooms and the door is open and I have seen them in their knickers and bras anyway :p
 
No, because I keep the front door locked and always have done.

THey have no choice but to knock then...

Simple solution?
 
I think it's generaly ok for direct relatives (eg my dad walks into my grandparents house without knocking) But as for friends, i reckon you just need to say it to them straight, but in a nice way, that you'd prefer them to knock next time.

Or you could make more of a habit of locking the door :p If your mate can walk in then so can anyone
 
dmpoole said:
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think you got it bad?

try a mate walking into your house and helping himself to your food... while your asleep!

thank god he doesnt do it anymore.
 
I had my ex's Sister walk in my after i just got out the shower. She liked the view, but she didn't like the ear full of abuse I gave her for walking in on me. She never did it again. Get a grip and demand respect.
 
I've never had the problem personally. I've got a firnd and she always just tells me I can let myself in, but I still knock or phone just as I'm getting there otherwise I just feel rude. I can imagine it'd be the sort of thing to bug me, and I would just lock the door.

If you have a side door, use that mainly instead, and lock the front door, then you don't have the inconvienience of having to lock and unlock it every time, and people who don't live with you won't know?
 
I always just walk into my mates house, and have for ages. I get told off by his mum when I knock though, as I might as well be a member of the family.
 
dmpoole said:
I've told him to stop where he is because if he comes any further he'll see my 17 year old in her knickers and bra
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lol, and you wonder why he keeps walking in unexpected :p
 
There is only one person who does that to our family and we in return do it to them. Our familes have known each other for 40 years, my dad and Pete are practically brothers.

Other than that if anyone else did it i'd tell them not to because i'd be uncomfortable with them doing so.
 
I walk straight in to a few peoples homes (after telling them I was on my way) but only with express permission before I do. I always used to knock on my ex's Mums front door and she used to tell me off for making them get up! :p Think it was her way of making me part of the family and she always knew if I was coming anyway :)

My sister had a key to let herself in at my last house (so did his bro to make things fair) and I always let them know they were welcome to use it anytime - they still always called first though. In fact when I still lived down south I used to regularly get up in the morning to find my best mate eating my cereal!

If anybody doesn't give express permission though it doesn't happen :)

Their home - their rules :D
 
The front door is locked - this is the back door that we keep open because of ease with the family.
This happens at least twice a week fover the last 5 years and believe me every time he walks straight in I make a sarcy comment about it.
Most of the time I know he's coming and I will lock the door and he'll make a comment that the doors locked but sometimes he comes unexpected and walks straight in.
I can't believe he hasn't got the hints over all this time.
 
dmpoole said:
I can't believe he hasn't got the hints over all this time.
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Tell him straight then. Some people will just keep taking liberties until you wave a stop sign infront of their nose.
 
My house is always open, all my friends just come in whenever they feel like. I'm the same with them.

Then again I live out in the sticks, and there is like 8 houses where I live - all of them contain friends. We're a very close community.
 
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