The Wrong Girl

[Yogimus]

If you really want to get kinky, you can set up a webcam for a peep hole and be able to answer your door via phone.

[308Mike]

If you really want to get kinky, you can set up a webcam for a peep hole and be able to answer your door via phone.

And how's that working out for you? Is the picture good enough to recognize people and tell if they might be, or might not be armed?

[MarkD]

I hate those peephole things, when I was an idiot outlaw biker I felt like they were funneling me directly into a spot where I could get shot through the door. An acquaintance of mine had that happen to him.
I would usually leave the house very quietly by the other door when I heard a knock, walk around and come up behind the visitor. I like to be somewhere I'm not expected.
Not much use if you live in a flat ( apartment ? ) with only one door like the girl in the video though.

My front door is situated so that if someone rings the bell I can (and do) look out the kitchen window to see who it is. I basically see them from behind their left shoulder.

[Precision]

Am I weird in that when I am forced to ring a doorbell or knock on a door, I usually take 5-6 steps back from the door? If the house has a small deck porch, wait outside the drip edge of the deck for the person to answer.

Don't know when I started but I have noticed that tendency.

[Weetabix]

Am I weird in that when I am forced to ring a doorbell or knock on a door, I usually take 5-6 steps back from the door? If the house has a small deck porch, wait outside the drip edge of the deck for the person to answer.

Don't know when I started but I have noticed that tendency.

That started for me when selling Boy Scout popcorn with my son. I didn't want the inhabitants to be worried about some unknown guy crowding their front door.

[Yogimus]

Started for me when a drunk guy kicked a door out in my face.

[workinwifdakids]

Am I weird in that when I am forced to ring a doorbell or knock on a door, I usually take 5-6 steps back from the door? If the house has a small deck porch, wait outside the drip edge of the deck for the person to answer.

Don't know when I started but I have noticed that tendency.

Hell, I thought it was common courtesy. You ring the bell, you step back about 6 feet holding your hands at your belt, and stand by. There's no need to hump a guy's door.

Oh, and I have a rule:

Simply because a man knocks on my door, does not compel me to open it. I can shout, "How can I help you today?" through my door just fine.